Does Italy use "Daylight Savings" time changes in the fall and spring?
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almost all of the world does.\nthe daylight savings time originated from Woodrow \nwilson.  he wast walking down the street and noticed that many people were using a tremendous amount of light after dark.  this was during wwi, the war to end all wars.  he included in his 14 point speech, which the 14th point is the point that made him most famous.  it outlined the league of nations, the predecessor to the united nations.
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some do, not everyone acknowledges daylight savings time.  I will post a long thing here you can read through....or if you dont want to read through it you can click on the website cite below and its about halfway down the page.\n\n\n\nAfrica\n\nEgypt\nEgypt normally observes DST between the last Thursday in April and the last Thursday in September when the clocks are three hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+3). The change is at midnight (local time); i.e. one second after 23:59:59 on that Thursday becomes 23:00:00 Thursday. The date does not change when the first 00:00 midnight occurs, for all practical purposes, midnight does not occur until then. However, the 2006 rule is an exception: the clock falls back September 22 at 01:00 so as not to disrupt Ramadan, and possibly similar exceptions will apply in 2007 and 2008.\n\n\n\nNamibia\nDST begins on the first Sunday in September, and ends on the first Sunday in April.\n\n\nTunisia\nTunisia adopted Daylight saving time for the first time in 2005 starting 1st May 2005 and following EU time schedules thereafter. This comes as a move by the government to try and promote saving of energy in the wake of the ever-rising cost of fuel in the world market.\n\n\nAsia\n\nChina\nThe People's Republic of China experimented with DST from 1986, but abandoned it in the 1990s. The PRC now uses one time zone for the whole country; the size of the nation was a major factor why DST was not considered practical in China.\n\n\nIndia\nIndia used DST briefly during war times.\n\n\nIran\nBefore 1979, DST was observed in Iran. Thereafter it was abandoned until 1989, when it started on the first day of Farvardin (21-22 March) in the Iranian calendar and ended on the first day of Mehr (23-24 September). In 2006, Iran stopped observing DST.[14]\n\n\nIsrael\nIsrael observes DST starting on the last Friday before April 2 and ending at 2 AM on the Sunday between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Until 2005, the schedule was variable: the only requirement was that there be at least 150 days per year of DST, and was set out each year by the Ministry of the Interior.[15]\n\nIn territories controlled by the Palestinian National Authority, DST ends later, which can lead to some confusion. On September 5, 1999, terrorists were transporting a bomb that they mistakenly thought was set to go off at 5:30 PM Israel Standard Time; it was actually set for 5:30 PM Palestinian Daylight Time, which was an hour ahead. As a result, the bomb went off while the bomb was still being transported, killing the terrorists (and earning them a Darwin Award).[16]\n\n\nJapan\nFrom 1948 to 1951, Japan observed DST between May and September every year under an initiative of the U.S.-led occupation army. The unpopularity of DST, for which people complained about sleep disruption and longer daytime labor (some workers had to work from early morning till dusk), caused Japan to abandon DST around the same time that its independence was restored. Since then, DST has never been officially implemented nationwide in Japan.\n\nStarting in the late 1990s, a movement to re-install DST in Japan gained some popularity, aiming at saving energy and increasing recreational time. The Hokkaido region is particularly in favor of this movement because daylight starts as early as 3:30 am (in standard time) there in summer due to its high latitude and its location near the eastern edge of the time zone. In the early 2000s, a few local governments and commerce departments promoted unmandated hour-earlier work schedule experiments during summer time without officially resetting clocks.\n\n\nJordan\nJordan UTC+2 observes daylight saving time from the end of March to the end of October.\n\n\nKazakhstan\nKazakhstan made a decision to stop observing DST in 2005.\n\n\nKyrgyzstan\nKyrgyzstan voted to stop observing DST in 2005 by remaining on UTC+6 as Standard Time (which used to be Kyrgyzstan Summer Time) to still save energy.\n\n\nPakistan\nPakistan experimented
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One would think from looking at a map that Austira would, being further east but in fact, both France and Austria are GMT+1 with no daylight savings on Dec 31 so they are in the same time zone and celebrate it at the same time.\n\n(Checked using Brest, France - one of the most western cities against Wien/Vienna, Austria)
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It's called "Daylight Saving Time". It is believed to save electricity by prolonging the day with one hour.
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Daylight savings time is simply a relative adjustment of the clock, moving it forward one hour for about six months of the year.  The original desire of it was to provide more daylight for farmers to work their crops.  Now it is more of an opportunity to enjoy an extra hour of daylight.  On at least one occasion daylight savings time was initiated due to energy shortages, with the effect of having a bit more daylight in the evening.\n\nIt is not universally accepted in the US--parts of Indiana and the state of Arizona do not adjust their clocks.
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We put the clocks forward by 1hr on Sunday 26th March 2006 and then put them back by an hour on the 29th October. It is basically to get more hours of daylight at decent times of the day!\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time
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Benjamin Franklin  was among the first Americans to discuss the idea of Daylight Saving Time. In fact, he proposed the idea while serving as U.S. minister to France as a way of conserving the cost of lighting for shops. The purpose has been to essentially utilize more of the daylight hours in spring and summer for daytime activities. Simply put, the Sun is up longer in the sky (rises earlier and sets later) in summer. Clocks and common mechanical timepieces keep what's called civil time, which roughly corresponds to the passage of a fictitious "average" Sun through our sky. This is necessary since the Sun does not rise and set on a regular basis, but changes by as much as 15 minutes throughout the course of the year.\n\nDaylight Saving Time was generally adopted by countries around World War I, but President Wilson repealed the United States' mandatory daylight savings law on March 31, 1918. During World War II, Daylight Savings Time was reestablished by law on a year-round basis, and later seen as a fuel saving measure during the Arab Oil Embargo crisis of 1973-74. In late 1974, standard time was brought back. During World War II, the U.S. and some other countries implemented "double" daylight savings time consisting of a two hour shift.
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You may want to take your direction from the "End  Daylight Savings Time" campaign (see link to web site below).\n\nUnfortunately, things appear to be moving in the other direction as an amendment to an energy bill passed by Congress in Aug. 2005, Daylight Saving time will be extended by about a month. Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time will begin on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November.\n\nThe sad reality is that both sides in this argument have mired it down with exageration and statistics which cannot be verified. As a result, no rational argument can find a foothold.
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The difference between Bristish Standard Time and Greenewich Mean Time is one (1) hour.\nIt is essentially observered in the same manner that the East Coast of USA observes Daylight Savings Time in the Spring/Summer months (1st weekend of April) and then returns to Eastern Standard Time in the middle of Autumn. (last weekend of October)
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The following passage was used without permission:\n\nThe vernal equinox (or spring equinox) marks the beginning of astronomical spring. It occurs during the month of March in the Northern Hemisphere, and during September in the Southern Hemisphere. In Chinese culture the vernal equinox marks the middle of spring. At the same moment that the vernal equinox occurs in one hemisphere, it is the time of the autumnal equinox in the other hemisphere.\n\nIn 2006, the Northern Hemisphere's vernal equinox falls on March 20 at 18:26 UTC.\n\nAs far as adding or subtracting an hour, the equinoxes do not correspond to daylight saving time.  No time adjustment is required.  You can learn more about daylight saving time at the second link shown below.\n\nPlease take time to vote for the best answer.
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I know how you are feeling. Here in Indiana, it's the first time in many years that we used Daylight Savings Time. Until yesterday, parts of Indiana and Arizona were exempt from using DST. Since our govenor signed a new law, we are now on track with everyone else. I had to set all of our watches and clockes ahead 1 hour for the first time.
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It's 2am Wed Feb 15 in Rome Italy.\nTake your time minus 5 then change to AM next day
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Spring:March 20-June 21 Summer:June 21-September 23\nFall:September 23-December 21 Winter:December 21-March 20
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the days are not changing appreciably, but Congress did change daylight savings time, theoretically to save energy. You can read about the changes at the site below.
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Yes, the seasons change every three months.  1st December is the first day of Winter in Europe................
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Daylight saving time or daylight savings time (DST) is a widely used system of adjusting the official local time forward, usually one hour from its official standard time for the duration of the spring and summer months. This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "savings" are spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn.\n\nDST is most commonly used in temperate regions, due to the considerable variation in the amount of daylight versus darkness across the seasons in those regions.\n\nGovernments often tout it as an energy conservation measure, on the grounds that it allows more effecive use of natural sunlight resource in summer time. (People go to bed and wake up earlier, which reduces use of electric lights.) Some opponents reject this argument (see below, Criticism).\n\nEuropeans commonly refer to the system as summer time: Irish Summer Time, British Summer Time, and European Summer Time. This is reflected in the time zones names as well, e.g. Central European Time (CET) becomes Central European Summer Time (CEST).\n\nNote that the term commonly used in the United States, daylight savings time, has been criticized by some commentators as being incorrect, for both historic (the name as provided by the act which inaugurated it in the United States is daylight saving time) and grammatical reasons.
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"You might ask, isn't the changing of the clocks a federal law? The answer is that although Daylight Saving Time was established by federal law in 1986, a state or area may choose not to observe it. Other areas in the U.S. that don't observe Daylight Saving Time are Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands. In Arizona, we just don't need another hour of sunlight!"