Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight

Subject: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:44 pm

For those that observe it, set your clocks ahead 1 hour. Sunday, March 9 @ 2:00 AM Good Night

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:55 pm

Wow that is in 5 mins! Thanks for the reminder. Wink

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:58 pm

Oh god. I'd have forgot to..lol Thanx for the Heads up Camulus props

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:34 pm

Strange my computer didn't change time. Nor the cable menu on the tv. They usually change automatically.

I wonder if our date for changing here in Sweden is different.

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:38 pm

Yep I just found it!

For Sweden it's...

Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 1:59:59 AM	No	+1 hour	CET
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 3:00:00 AM	1 hour	+2 hours

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:43 am

Yeah, Here in the U.S. It's on Sunday, March 9 @ 2:00 AM
Most of my clocks in my house are Atomic Clocks that set themselves with the time signal with WWV in Boulder CO.
If you have a shortwave radio you can hear the Atomic Clock
on 5, 10, 15, or 20 megahertz.

Guest

It's not the case in France either

Why the hell create something and not even have it at the same time all over the world? -_-

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:17 am

Yeah no kidding! I thought it was at the same time everywhere.

And I just realized when I searched for the date here that it is a different date each year!

I thought it all went like the first day of fall and first day of spring.

The reason why I am clueless is because in the state that I lived in, when I was in the USA, we did not participate in DST. We were one of 2 states that did not.

It was only 2 years ago, which was right before we left for Sweden, that they started it.

And the stupidest thing is that the state officials decided that each area of the state could decide which time zone they wanted to follow.

Because the state on each side of us followed a different time zone. Confusing right? lol U have no idea!

So instead of being united, three areas of the state decided to go with a different time zone!

So you could drive a few miles and be in a different time zone! LOL If you lived close to those areas you almost needed to wear 2 or 3 watches on your arm. hahaha

Guest

I wish I could find the date for France; last thing I want is to miss Uni for a day because of this stupidity T.T

In the south hemishpere they don't participate on DST and it works fine

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:45 am

Click that link that was in my post the CET, it will direct you to the one for France.

Guest

So it looks like France & Sweden have the same dates Smile

(Hows that for organisation America? Razz

)

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:28 pm

ROFL! Yeah YOU tell 'em!

Last edited by Camulus on Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:19 pm; edited 1 time in total

These are the countries that do use daylight saving time:
Canary Islands
Egypt
Namibia
Tunisia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Syria
Australia
New Zealand

In Australia, the decision to implement daylight saving time is left up to each state or territory. Some states and territories implement it and some do not.

New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia apply DST on a yearly basis. Tasmania commences daylight saving on the first Sunday in October, while other states begin on the last Sunday in October and finish on the last Sunday in March. From 2008 daylight saving will be extended another four weeks in NSW, Victoria, SA and the ACT. (Summer 2007/2008 sees an extension of 2 weeks, commencing October 28 and concluding April 6.) Daylight saving will run from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April.

In 2006, the Parliament of Western Australia approved a three-year daylight saving trial to be followed by a referendum and the WA Nationals have announced a public campaign to bring the referendum forward to 2007. Three previous referendums, in 1975, 1984 and 1992, rejected DST. to decide whether DST should be put in place permanently. However, public opposition mounted during the first year of the trial, Western Australia is persisting with DST in 2007 and 2008, but is currently not planning to amend its start and finish to stay in-line with the eastern states.

The Northern Territory and Queensland do not officially have DST. Queensland experimented with DST in the early 1970s, and again in the early 1990s, but it was abandoned after a majority of residents voted against it in a 1992 referendum. It continues to be a source of controversy. The Northern Territory experimented with daylight saving in the early part of the 20th century. It was last used in 1944.

Russia

In Russia daylight saving time was originally introduced on July 1, 1917, by a decree of the Russian Provisional Government, when clocks were moved one hour forwards. But it was abandoned by a Decree of the Soviet government five months later, clocks being moved one hour back again on December 27. Daylight saving time was reintroduced in the USSRMoscow Summer Time) on April 1, 1981, by a decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. In Russia it was not abandoned after the breakup of the USSR. The changeover dates in Russia are the same as for other European countries, but clocks are moved forward or back at 02:00 local time in all zones. Thus in Moscow (local time = UTC+3 in winter, UTC+4 in summer), DST commences at 23:00 UTC on the day before the last Sunday in March, and ends at 23:00 UTC on the day before the last Sunday in October (note that "day before last Sunday" is not the same as "last Saturday" in a month where the last day is a Saturday).

Sweden

In Sweden daylight saving time was originally introduced on May 15, 1916. It wasn't popular at all, and on Sept 30 the same year, Sweden went back to standard time and remained there for many decades.

On April 6, 1980, Sweden again introduced daylight saving time, and since then DST has been observed every summer in Sweden. Except from the introduction year 1980, daylight saving time has always started on the last Sunday in March. It ended on the last Sunday in September during the years 1980-1995, and on the last Sunday in October from 1996 and on, following a unification of start/end dates of DST within the EU as well as in several European countries then outside the EU.

Since DST was reintroduced in 1980 in April 6, five days after April 1, a major Swedish newspaper took the opportunity to publish an april fool's joke on April 1 1980. According to the joke, DST had been introduced almost in secret with nearly no public information, everybody was late everywhere, hardly anyone really knew what the time was, and there was chaos everywhere.

Iceland

With Iceland observing UTC all year round despite being at a longitude which would indicate UTC-1, the country may be thought of as being on continuous DST.

Norway

In Norway, DST (locally known by the expression "summer-time") was introduced in 1916, 1940-45, and 1959-65. The arrangement was highly controversial, and in 1965 parliament (Stortinget) decided that enough was enough, and discontinued the practice. In 1980, however, DST was re-introduced, and at present (2007) Norway follows the European Union in this matter.

Denmark

As a reminder that DST can still cause controversy, one might note the existence of a national association against DST (Landsforeningen mod Sommertid).

Canada

In Canada, time is under provincial and territorial jurisdiction, not federal. The governments of Ontario, Manitoba, Nunavut, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Alberta, the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Yukon Territory have so far pledged to change their DST rules to match the new U.S. rules. Newfoundland and Labrador followed by also adopting legislation to implement the change. As noted below, Saskatchewan stays on DST year round. In 2007, their DST started on the second Sunday in March, and returned to standard time on the first Sunday of November, to coincide with the U.S. dates.

Cuba

Cuba remained on DST from April of 2004 until October 29, 2006. Cuba restarted DST again on 11 March 2007.

Greenland

Greenland (excluding two minor areas at Danmarkshavn and Pituffik) observes DST and uses the European convention (DST begins 01:00 UTC last Sunday in March and ends 01:00 UTC last Sunday in October). Most of the country is in the UTC-3 zone in the winter (UTC-2 in the summer).

Guatemala

Guatemala has used DST from time to time due to energy problems. The last time it used DST was on April 30, 2006, ending on October 1, 2006. The implementation of DST has saved more than eight million dollars. However DST was not observed in 2007.

Honduras

Honduras adopted DST once from May 1994 until September 1994 but abandoned it that same year. On May 7, 2006 it again used DST, however it ended on August 7, 2006 making this the shortest use of DST in the northern hemisphere as it was only applied for 3 months. The government decided not to use DST in 2007.

Mexico

Mexico adopted DST nationwide in 1996, even in its tropical regions, because of its increasing economic ties to the United States. The Mexican state of Sonora has not observed DST since 1998 because its neighbor Arizona does not observe DST, and the important economic ties between these two states. Although the United States has changed the schedule for DST beginning in 2007, Mexico will not be going along with it. DST has often been a contentious issue in Mexico and is not likely to be expanded.

In Baja California the daylight saving time has been observed from several decades ago and until 1996 was the only Mexican state to observe the DST.

Nicaragua

Nicaragua observed DST from January 1, 1992 until February 20, 1994 but it was stopped. On April 10, 2005 until October 2, 2005 DST was implemented, and the following year the period was similar, beginning on April 30, 2006 and ending on October 1, 2006; this measure was for energy conservation. In 2007 the government of Nicaragua decided stop observing daylight saving time.

United States

Daylight Saving Time currently starts on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November, with all time changes taking place at 2:00 a.m. local time. From 1987 through 2006, DST began on the first Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday of October. Under Section 110 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the U.S. Department of Energy is required to study the impact of 2007's DST extension no later than nine months after the change took effect. Congress has retained the right to revert to the DST schedule set in 1986. One potential issue is that some northern regions on the western edges of time zones are, for the first time since the 1974-75 "almost year round" DST experiment, experiencing sunrise times that occur later than 8am.

Many computers are affected by this change.

The schedule for 2006 in the United States was that DST began on the first Sunday in April (April 2, 2006), and changed back to standard time on the last Sunday in October (October 29, 2006). The time is adjusted at 2 AM local time.

In 2007, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States. DST started on the second Sunday of March (March 11, 2007), which is usually three weeks earlier than in the past, and it ended on the first Sunday of November (November 4, 2007), usually one week later than in years past (more details on the new DST start and end times can be found here). This resulted in a new DST period that was four weeks longer than in previous years; however, in some years, such as in 2008, the extension will be four weeks in the spring if there are five Sundays in March (with the 2008 DST beginning on March 9, rather than on April 6 under the previous law), thus, five weeks in total.

In 2008, daylight saving time in the United States began on Sunday, March 9, 2008, and will end on November 2, 2008.

EDIT: Info from Wikipedia

Last edited by Camulus on Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:18 pm; edited 1 time in total

These countries or regions do not use Daylight saving time:

Afghanistan
Bahrain
China
Hong Kong
Japan
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Macau
Mongolia
North Korea
Qatar
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
South Korea
Nepal
Bhutan
Pakistan
India
Bangladesh
Myanmar
Taiwan
Thailand
Laos
Vietnam
Philippines
Cambodia
Malaysia (on permanent DST; UTC+8 at UTC+7 longitude)
Brunei
Singapore (on permanent DST; UTC+8 at UTC+7 longitude)
Indonesia
Timor Leste
Papua New Guinea
Venezuela

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Daylight saving for Halloween

One bill that has been pushed for the past several years, especially by Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi, is the Halloween Safety Act to extend DST by one week to end on the first Sunday of November instead of the last Sunday in October. The idea was to allow children to go trick-or-treating in more daylight. This extension was achieved with the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Alaska

Alaska currently observes DST, but there is a statewide move to abolish it. As of July 24, 2006, Alaska's lieutenant governor Loren Leman approved a petition to collect signatures to put the initiative measure on the ballot by 2008. Due to its high latitude, Alaska has nearly round-the-clock daylight during summer and DST is seen by some Alaskans as unnecessary and a nuisance. Another issue is that the Alaskan mainland's single time zone is too wide and there is a large disparity between civil time and solar time with solar noon occurring as late as 3:00 P.M. by the clock in places like Nome, Alaska. Others argue that ending daylight saving time will place Alaska as much as five hours from Eastern Daylight Time, making coordination of travel and phone conversations more difficult.

Arizona

Arizona did observe DST in 1967 under the Uniform Time Act because the state legislature did not enact an exemption statute that year. In March 1968, the DST exemption statute was enacted and the state of Arizona has not observed DST since 1967 (however, the large Navajo Indian Reservation, which extends from Arizona into two adjacent states, does). This is in large part due to energy conservation since the temperature in and around Phoenix and Tucson is hotter than any other large U.S. metropolitan area during the summer, resulting in more power usage from air conditioning units and evaporative coolers in homes and businesses. An extra hour of sunlight while people are active would cause people to run their cooling systems longer, thereby using more energy.

Colorado

At the end of the 20th century, Colorado Springs Gazette columnist Ralph Routon wrote a series of columns supporting the idea of placing all of Colorado on year-round DST in order to save state residents the "aggravation of resetting their clocks every six months." The idea gathered noticeable popular support within Colorado Springs, and attention of the state's larger newspapers, but when then state Senator MaryAnne Tebedo attempted to present the idea to the state legislature, her research uncovered Federal laws forbidding the state-initiated extension of daylight saving time. Still determined to relieve Coloradans of the need to change their clocks, Tebedo introduced the only bill legally permitted to her: a proposal to exempt the state of Colorado from DST. The bill failed to escape committee during the 2000 legislative session.

Hawaii

Because of Hawaii's tropical latitude, there is not a large variation in daylight length between winter and summer. Due to the location of Hawaiian archipelago, advancing the clock in Hawaii would have made sunrise times close to 7:00 A.M. even in June. (Most of inhabited islands are located close to the west end of the Hawaii-Aleutian time zone, but Oahu, Kauai and Niihau are located more than 7 1/2 degrees west of the Hawaii-Aleutian time zone's meridian and should, ideally, be located in the next time zone to the west. Hawaii did experiment with DST for three weeks between April 30, 1933 and May 21, 1933; there is no record as to why it was implemented or ultimately discontinued. Hawaii has never observed daylight saving time under the Uniform Time Act, having opted out of the Act's provisions in 1967.

Indiana

From 1970 until 2006, most of Indiana in the Eastern Time Zone did not observe Daylight Saving Time, but the entire state started to do so in April 2006 after eight counties in western Indiana were shifted from the Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone. One of the goals for observing DST was to get more Indiana counties observing the same timezone; formerly, 77 counties observed EST, 5 observed EST/EDT, and 10 observed CST/CDT. At present Indiana has 18 counties observing Central Daylight Time while the remaining 74 counties observe Eastern Daylight Time.

Michigan

In 1967 the Michigan Legislature adopted a statute, Act 6 of the Public Acts of 1967, exempting the state from the observance of DST. The exemption statute was suspended on June 14, 1967, however, when the referendum was invoked. From June 14, 1967, until the last Sunday in October, 1967, Michigan observed DST, and did so in 1968 as well. The exemption statute was submitted to the voters at the General Election held in November, 1968, and, in a very close vote, the exemption statute was sustained. As a result, Michigan did not observe DST in 1969, 1970, 1971, or 1972. In November, 1972, an initiative measure, repealing the exemption statute, was approved by the voters. Michigan has observed DST in 1973 and all subsequent years.

Nevada

In 2005, Nevada Assembly Bill 18 would have exempted Nevada from Daylight Saving Time. The bill's author, Assemblyman Bob McCleary, D-North Las Vegas, argued that because of southern Nevada's desert climate, it would reduce power usage during the peak summer months by reducing the time that people would operate their home air conditioners. The result of not observing DST, however, would place the state in an odd time configuration relative to neighboring states. Because it is on the eastern edge of the Pacific Time Zone, Nevada (PST) would be two hours behind Utah (MDT), its eastern neighbor, and one hour behind California (PDT), its western neighbor. In the summer, it would therefore be the same time in Nevada (PST) as it would be in the majority of Alaska (AKDT). The bill died without a vote.

United States of America Territories

All U.S. insular territories with civilian government (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) do not observe DST. They all lie in the tropics.

South America

Argentina
After a period of not observing DST, on December 21, 2007, Argentina resumed by law the observance, in an attempt to save energy. This law is to be enforced for the first time at midnight on December 30, 2007. Argentina will resume standard time on March 16, 2008.

Brazil

Brazil adopted DST (called horário de verão – "summer time" – in Portuguese) for the first time in 1931, and has used it continuously since 1985 in the southern states (south, southeast regions and the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul), and in Bahia until 2004. Starting and ending dates are variable: normally, DST starts at midnight on an October (rarely November) Sunday and ends at midnight on a February or March Sunday. In 2007, DST started on October 14, 2007 and it ended on February 17, 2008 in the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, and Distrito Federal.

Chile

Chile observes DST from the second Saturday in October to the second Saturday in March, with the result that the same time is observed there as in Argentina for a part of the year.

Colombia

From February 1992 until March 1993, Colombia suffered rolling blackouts of up to 10 hours a day due to a particularly strong El Niño season, which dried the reservoirs in hydroelectric plants in a country deriving 70% of its energy output from hydroelectric sources; consequently, the government decided to use DST to help save electricity. The experience did not have good results due to the low latitude; therefore it is no longer observed, although it was intended to be a temporary measure.

Ecuador

President Sixto Durán Ballén imposed daylight saving time in 1992 in an energy-saving effort. It was poorly received by the populace and did not last long.

Islas Malvinas / Falkland Islands

DST is observed in Port Stanley and at Mount Pleasant Airbase, but not in the rest of the territory.

Paraguay

Paraguay observes DST. The current regulation that establishes this is decree 1867 of March 5, 2004. DST ends on the second Sunday of March and starts on the third Sunday of October.

In 2007, DST started on October 15, 2006 and ended on March 11, 2007.

Uruguay

Since 2004, Uruguay has observed DST. Starting in 2006, DST will start on the first Sunday in October and end on the second Sunday in March of every year.

Rest of South America

These areas do not use Daylight saving time:

Colombia
Venezuela
Guyana
Peru

The following states of Brazil:

Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia, Roraima, Sergipe, and Tocantins.

EDIT: Info from Wikipedia

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:30 am

Wow ~ I did not know all that now Camulus. Thanx for sharing that info hun. hug

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:45 pm

It was my pleasure. Smile

Guest

Damn, I didn't think anyone would ever take credit from Wikipedia until now

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:05 pm

**edit**
my bad *** Oops!

Hi

dam this DST has me all messed up (i liked the old time)

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:44 pm

Bad Wolf wrote:: **edit**
my bad ***

Hi

dam this DST has me all messed up (i liked the old time)

Yeah, I know how you feel. It would make it easier for everyone if
the world used a universal time system.

Caihlem, Wikipedia maybe the worlds greatest on-line encyclopedia, but I don't take the credit for it. Anyone can add info to it.

Guest

Camulus wrote:: It was my pleasure.

That's taking credit Wink

In works and stuff, if people quote without mentionning their sources they get the balls cut off, just an idea Smile

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:45 am

We have the start of British Summer Time when the clocks go forward 1 hour & the end of British Summer Time when they go back 1 hour.

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:10 pm

Caihlem wrote:

Camulus wrote:: It was my pleasure.

That's taking credit Wink

In works and stuff, if people quote without mentionning their sources they get the balls cut off, just an idea Smile

In a way I can take some credit. Some of the info on that Wika was out of date. So I updated it.
EDIT: So there no copyright issues here I added the infos source to my
posts above.

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:09 pm

Does it really matter!
This is an internet forum, not a published University research project.

Lighten up.

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:16 pm

Just a reminder for us on this side of the puddle, our time changes tomorrow! On the 30th. (it's midnight:14 on the 29th right now lol) So technically it's tomorrow from right now. lol

For Sweden and France (if I remember correctly) it's...

Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 1:59:59 AM	No	+1 hour	CET
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 3:00:00 AM	1 hour	+2 hours

Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time (DST) Begins Tonight Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:15 am

We go +1 hour as well tonight.

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