what two states in America do not follow daylight saving time?
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Arizona and Hawaii!\n\n"Arizona (except some Indian Reservations), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have chosen not to observe Daylight Saving Time. This choice does make sense for the areas closer to the equator because the days are more consistent in length throughout the year."
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It is currently 8:00 p.m. on the west coast and the polls just closed there. Alaska and Hawaii will not close for another 3 hours. The U.S. extends across 6 time zones. Not as big a problem with this election as with a presidential election, T.V dweebs, notoriously republican but styled as liberal, used to report the results when half the country had not yet voted.
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9:54 AM.  Phoenix (along with the rest of Arizona) does not observe Daylight Savings Time, so in the summer, Phoenix is on the same time as Pacific Daylight Time.
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I live in America, but I'm currently in Germany for the next month for my fashion work. In Manhatten Beach, California (Where I live) it's 6:48 AM, and here in Amsterdam, it is 3:48 PM. The time change is so bizaree!
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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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Never because there are different time zones around the world therefore if you are having nighttime another country may be having day 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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4 a.m.\n☺\nCan't sleep in the summer until dawn
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Do u mean through which states the Indian Standard time passes? I think the states are Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Orissa and Andra Pradesh.
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11:30pm, April 30th\n\nWake Island is located in The Hawaiian Standard Time.  Honolulu is -10hr GMT.  \n\nLondon is 0hr GMT\n\nHawaii does not observe daylight saving.  \nOn the other hand, London, UK does! so that takes place in April and therefore London has already gone up by one hr.\n\nThis makes Hawaii fall 11 hrs behind London, UK...\n\nand voila, while London is @ 10:30am on May 1st, Wake Island is 11:30pm on April 30th.\n\nanddddd ... at that time it is 5:30am on the North American Eastern Seaboard (homeeee :>:>)
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Pacific Daylight Time.
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The main purpose of Daylight Saving Time (called "Summer Time" in many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Countries have different change dates. Glide your cursor over the map to see how changing the clocks affects different latitudes.\n\nIf you live near the equator, day and night are nearly the same length (12 hours). But elsewhere on Earth, there is much more daylight in the summer than in the winter. The closer you live to the North or South Pole, the longer the period of daylight in the Summer. Thus, Daylight Saving Time (Summer Time) is usually not helpful in the tropics, and countries near the equator generally do not change their clocks. \n\nA poll done by the U.S. Department of Transportation indicated that Americans liked Daylight Saving Time because "there is more light in the evenings / can do more in the evenings." A 1976 survey of 2.7 million citizens in New South Wales, Australia found 68% liked daylight saving. \n\nDaylight Saving Time also saves energy. Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation show that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country's electricity usage by a small but significant amount, about one percent each day, because less electricity is used for lighting and appliances. Similarly, in New Zealand, power companies have found that power usage decreases 3.5 percent when daylight saving starts. In the first week, peak evening consumption commonly drops around five percent.\n\nEnergy use and the demand for electricity for lighting homes is directly related to the times when people go to bed at night and rise in the morning. In the average home, 25 percent of electricity is used for lighting and small appliances, such as TVs, VCRs, and stereos. A good percentage of energy consumed by lighting and appliances occurs in the evening when families are home. By moving the clock ahead one hour, the amount of electricity consumed each day decreases.\n\n\nIn the Summer, people who rise before the sun rises use more energy in the morning than if DST was not in effect. However, although 70 percent of Americans rise before 7:00 a.m., this waste of energy from having less sunlight in the morning is more than offset by the savings of energy that results from more sunlight in the evening.\n\nIn the Winter, the afternoon Daylight Saving Time advantage is offset for many people and businesses by the morning's need for more lighting. In Spring and Fall, the advantage is generally less than one hour. So, Daylight Saving Time saves energy for lighting in all seasons of the year, but it saves least during the four darkest months of Winter (November, December, January, and February), when the afternoon advantage is offset by the need for lighting because of late sunrise.\n\nIn addition, less electricity is used because people are home fewer hours during the "longer" days of Spring and Summer. Most people plan outdoor activities in the extra daylight hours. When people are not at home, they don't turn on the appliances and lights.\n\nThere is a public health benefit to Daylight Saving Time, as it decreases traffic accidents. Several studies in the U.S. and Great Britain have found that the DST daylight shift reduces net traffic accidents and fatalities by close to one percent. An increase in accidents in the dark mornings is more than offset by the evening decrease in accidents.
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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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i live in the usa, florida to be exact. i am in school now and the clock says its 8:48.
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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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Yes, we do adjust our clocks in Colorado.  Forward one hour in the spring, backward one hour in the fall.  Spring forward, fall back.
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Daylight Savings Time begins on the First Sunday in April at 2:00 AM, and ends on the last Sunday of October at 2:00 AM.\n\nStarting in 2007:\n\nDaylight Savings Time will begin at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and end at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday of November.  This will provide three more weeks of DST.\n\nBe correct when using time references:\nQuite often I see a letters or messages where someone mentions a time that something is supposed to happen and adds the identifier like CDT, (Central Daylight Time). I'm sure they are trying to appear intelligent but the "Daylight" time reference is not valid in January! It doesn't exist. Same with calling out Eastern Standard Time in June. \n\nYes, I know that these references are actually accurate in Arizona and parts of Ohio.  They don't do the Daylight Savings Time thing.