Why do we still do this daylight savings junk?
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"The change to Daylight Saving Time (not Savings!) allows us to use less energy in lighting our homes by taking advantage of the longer and later daylight hours."\n\nAs an aside, my birthday is on one of the last days in October, meaning that sometimes I have a 25-hour birthday... at least until 2007, when the time change back from DST will be pushed to the end of November.
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From Wikipedia:\n\n"It is sometimes asserted that DST was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in a letter to the editors of the Journal of Paris. (Read the full text.) However, the article was humorous; Franklin was not proposing DST, but rather that people should get up and go to bed earlier.\n\nIt was first seriously proposed by William Willett in the "Waste of Daylight", published in 1907, but he was unable to get the British government to adopt it despite considerable lobbying.\n\nThe idea of daylight saving time was first put into practice by the German government during the First World War between April 30 and October 1, 1916. Shortly afterward, the United Kingdom followed suit, first adopting DST between May 21 and October 1, 1916. Then on March 19, 1918, the U.S. Congress established several time zones (which were already in use by railroads and most cities since 1883) and made daylight saving time official (which went into effect on March 31) for the remainder of World War I. It was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. The law, however, proved so unpopular (mostly because people rose and went to bed earlier than in current times) that the law was later repealed."\n\nAs you can see, the first country to do it was Germany.\nI don't really know in Canada, but in Europe, it's now synchronized in the European Union (all countries do it on the same day).
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UK. The clocks go one hour forward and we become BST (British Summer Time).\nOtherwise(in autumn - the Fall) we revert to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).\nIf you are in the Army - just to confuse things - we have ZULU time.\nThis means that no matter where you are in the world, you still have the same clock!\nI hope I haven't broken the Official Secrets Act by revealing this!\nPS: As long as you wake up, you know that you are alive...doesn't matter what time it is. Good luck!
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check if the time zone u have set up is correct on your pc... \n\ngo to the time display on your taskbar --->\n right-click on the time--->click on adjust date/time---> \nselect the time zone---> adjst the time zone--> \n\nand there is an option at the bottom to fix time for daylight savings check the box... click ok if the time displayed is correct \n\nelse\n\ncorrect the time and you are all set now!
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Daylight saving time ends October 29th this year.
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You have your time zone settings set to a zone an hour behind yours.... its not the daylight savings times options fault.\n\nMy guess you have set your clock to a zone that matches your time zone whilst daylight savings was in operation, such as GMT... now summer is over it has automatically taken the hour off, as it should, which as revealed the  time zone error.\n\njust double click your clock and the clock configuration box will open. go to the time zone and check that the correct zone is selected. \n\nIf it still does it, you may requesting the time from the wrong server.. you can adjust this on the internet time tab.  as long as the time zone is set correct, it trial and error to choose the correct server.\n\nif this still does not resolve it.. you can work around it by simply setting a time zone that is one hour ahead of yours... which would give you the correct time.\n\nRemember if you are successful and find the correct zone and the clock works ok..... and then it gets to summer and it automatically goes ahead one hour, and you are not in an area that does that... just uncheck the daylight savings box in the zone settings tab.\n\nGood luck!
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You are probably referring to UTC time (Coordinated Universal Time).  The offset for the central time zone would be UTC-5 during daylight savings time.
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Daylight Saving Time is there to try to make more efficient use of daylight hours and therefore use less electricity and other resources.\n\nDuring the summer months, there are several hours of daylight before most people are awake.  By moving the clocks forward, everyone in effect gets up one hour earlier and so uses some of that daylight.\n\nThe important bit to remember is that moving the clocks does not actually move time, it just means that we get up earlier and pretend that we haven't.  If you wake up at 6 normally, then moving the clocks forward by an hour means that you actually get up at 5 but your clock tells you that it is 6.  We could all save a lot of hassle twice a year by just leaving the clocks where they are stop pretending that we are still getting up at the same time.\n\nThe attached link has loads of information about it, but it does suffer from the delusion that moving the clocks actually moves time.\n\nQuote "We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening".  Clearly total nonesense.  All it does is mean that we can do something an hour earlier than before but pretend that it is the same time.
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No one really sets the dates. Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.\n This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "saved" daylight is spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn.
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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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Because they are sensible.  DST is a huge waste of time and money.
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I wish I wasn't! I hate DST. There doesn't seem to be a good enough reason to go through all that hassle.
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There is a very common myth that it has something to do with farmers, but it is actually and energy conservation measure.  The whole idea was originally a big joke made by Benjamin Franklin.  Not all States in the Union do DST, nor do all Counties in every State.\n\nInterestingly enough, in these days of ubiquitous air conditioning, there may be no cost savings in lighting as was originally intended.\n\nThe reality is that the "Spring Forward" portion of DST causes additional traffic fatalities.  It is a dangerous practice that is continued thanks to governmental inertia and constituent apathy.
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I don't see how they can do away with them. It is a fact that the time is not running exactly to the second every year. If they did away with them they would eventually have to adjust something or atomic time would be different then local time.
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I prefer daylight saving time.
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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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2:40 am here, how can it be 1:04 where you are? shouldnt it be 1:40 pm?