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Many countries have used DST at various times since then, particularly since the s energy crisis. DST is generally not observed near the Equator, where sunrise and sunset times do not vary enough to justify it. Some countries observe it only in some regions: for example, parts of Australia observe it, while other parts do not. Conversely, it is not observed at some places at high latitudes, because there are wide variations in sunrise and sunset times and a one-hour shift would relatively not make much difference.
The United States observes it, except for the states of Hawaii and Arizona within the latter, however, the Navajo Nation does observe it, conforming to federal practice. DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, and sleep patterns. Computer software generally adjusts clocks automatically. Industrialized societies usually follow a clock-based schedule for daily activities that do not change throughout the course of the year.
The time of day that individuals begin and end work or school, and the coordination of mass transit , for example, usually remain constant year-round. In contrast, an agrarian society 's daily routines for work and personal conduct are more likely governed by the length of daylight hours [8] [9] and by solar time , which change seasonally because of the Earth's axial tilt.
North and south of the tropics , daylight lasts longer in summer and shorter in winter , with the effect becoming greater the further one moves away from the equator. After synchronously resetting all clocks in a region to one hour ahead of standard time, individuals following a clock-based schedule will awaken an hour earlier than they would have otherwise—or rather an hour's worth of darkness earlier; they will begin and complete daily work routines an hour of daylight earlier: they will have available to them an extra hour of daylight after their workday activities.
Proponents of daylight saving time argue that most people prefer a greater increase in daylight hours after the typical " nine to five " workday.
The shift in apparent time is also motivated by practicality. In American temperate latitudes, for example, the sun rises around at the summer solstice and sets around Since most people are asleep at , it is seen as more practical to pretend that is actually , thereby allowing people to wake close to the sunrise and be active in the evening light. The manipulation of time at higher latitudes for example Iceland, Nunavut , Scandinavia , and Alaska has little effect on daily life, because the length of day and night changes more extremely throughout the seasons in comparison to lower latitudes.
Sunrise and sunset times become significantly out of phase with standard working hours regardless of manipulation of the clock. DST is similarly of little use for locations near the Equator, because these regions see only a small variation in daylight in the course of the year.
Ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than DST does, often dividing daylight into 12 hours regardless of daytime, so that each daylight hour became progressively longer during spring and shorter during autumn. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as monasteries of Mount Athos [21] and in Jewish ceremonies.
Benjamin Franklin published the proverb "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," [23] [24] and published a letter in the Journal de Paris during his time as an American envoy to France — suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. However, this changed as rail transport and communication networks required a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day. It also acknowledged that private businesses were in the practice of changing their opening hours to suit daylight conditions, but they did so of their own volition.
New Zealand entomologist George Hudson first proposed modern DST. His shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects and led him to value after-hours daylight.
Port Arthur, Ontario , Canada, was the first city in the world to enact DST, on July 1, Britain, most of its allies , and many European neutrals soon followed. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year, and the United States adopted daylight saving in Most jurisdictions abandoned DST in the years after the war ended in , with exceptions including Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, and the United States.
Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals. It is a common myth in the United States that DST was first implemented for the benefit of farmers.
DST was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of , a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to conserve energy resources. The relevant authorities usually schedule clock changes to occur at or soon after midnight , and on a weekend, in order to lessen disruption to weekday schedules.
In all countries that observe daylight saving time seasonally i. during summer and not winter , the clock is advanced from standard time to daylight saving time in the spring, and they are turned back from daylight saving time to standard time in the autumn.
The practice, therefore, reduces the number of civil hours in the day of the springtime change, and it increases the number of civil hours in the day of the autumnal change. For a midnight change in spring, a digital display of local time would appear to jump from For the same clock in autumn, the local time would appear to repeat the hour preceding midnight, i.
it would jump from In most countries that observe seasonal daylight saving time, the clock observed in winter is legally named "standard time" [45] in accordance with the standardization of time zones to agree with the local mean time near the center of each region.
While most countries that change clocks for daylight saving time observe standard time in winter and DST in summer, Morocco observes since daylight saving time every month but Ramadan. The time at which to change clocks differs across jurisdictions. Members of the European Union conduct a coordinated change, changing all zones at the same instant, at Coordinated Universal Time UTC , which means that it changes at Central European Time CET , equivalent to Eastern European Time EET.
As a result, the time differences across European time zones remain constant. For example, Mountain Time is, for one hour in the autumn, zero hours ahead of Pacific Time instead of the usual one hour ahead, and, for one hour in the spring, it is two hours ahead of Pacific Time instead of one. Also, during the autumn shift from daylight saving to standard time, the hour between and occurs twice in any given time zone, whereas—during the late winter or spring shift from standard to daylight saving time—the hour between and disappears.
The dates on which clocks change vary with location and year; consequently, the time differences between regions also vary throughout the year. Since , European Summer Time has been observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union.
For example, mainland Chile observes DST from the second Saturday in October to the second Saturday in March, with transitions at local time. From year to year, the dates on which to change clock may also move for political or social reasons.
The Uniform Time Act of formalized the United States' period of daylight saving time observation as lasting six months it was previously declared locally ; this period was extended to seven months in , and then to eight months in For example, in most states there that observed daylight saving time changed clocks forward on October 5, but Western Australia changed on October The concept of daylight saving has caused controversy since its early proposals.
The fate of Willett's proposal illustrates several political issues. It attracted many supporters, including Arthur Balfour , Churchill, David Lloyd George , Ramsay MacDonald , King Edward VII who used half-hour DST or " Sandringham time " at Sandringham , the managing director of Harrods , and the manager of the [ which? However, the opposition proved stronger, including Prime Minister H. Asquith , William Christie the Astronomer Royal , George Darwin , Napier Shaw director of the Meteorological Office , many agricultural organizations, and theatre-owners.
After many hearings, a parliamentary committee vote narrowly rejected the proposal in Willett's allies introduced similar bills every year from through , to no avail. Germany together with its allies led the way in introducing DST German : Sommerzeit during World War I on April 30, , aiming to alleviate hardships due to wartime coal shortages and air-raid blackouts. The political equation changed in other countries; the United Kingdom used DST first on May 21, The USA's entry into the war overcame objections, and DST started in The end of World War I brought change in DST use.
Farmers continued to dislike DST, and many countries repealed it—like Germany itself, which dropped DST from to and from to As of [update] summer time began annually on the last Sunday in March under a European Community directive, which may be Easter Sunday as in President Woodrow Wilson —an avid golfer like Willett—vetoed the repeal twice, but his second veto was overridden. cities retained DST locally, [78] including New York so that its financial exchanges could maintain an hour of arbitrage trading with London , and Chicago and Cleveland to keep pace with New York.
Harding , opposed DST as a "deception", reasoning that people should instead get up and go to work earlier in the summer. He ordered District of Columbia federal employees to start work at 8 am rather than 9 am during the summer of Some businesses followed suit, though many others did not; the experiment was not repeated.
Since Germany's adoption of DST in , the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals of DST, with similar politics involved. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota , kept different times for two weeks in May the capital city decided to switch to daylight saving time, while Minneapolis opted to follow the later date set by state law.
Both senators from Idaho , Larry Craig and Mike Crapo , voted for it based on the premise that fast-food restaurants sell more French fries made from Idaho potatoes during DST. A referendum on the introduction of daylight saving took place in Queensland, Australia , in , after a three-year trial of daylight saving. It was defeated with a In the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores successfully lobbied for the extension to U.
In December the Daylight Saving for South East Queensland DS4SEQ political party was officially registered in Queensland, advocating the implementation of a dual-time-zone arrangement for daylight saving in South East Queensland , while the rest of the state maintained standard time. In the UK, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents supports a proposal to observe SDST's additional hour year-round, but that is opposed by some industries, by some postal workers and farmers, and particularly by those living in the northern regions of the UK.
In , the U. Senate unanimously approved a bill to make DST permanent, starting November Russia's plan generated widespread complaints due to the dark of winter-time mornings, and thus was abandoned in Some religious groups and individuals have opposed DST on religious grounds. In the past, some Christian groups and individuals criticized it for being a deviation from "God's Time", [98] while for religious Jews and Muslims it makes religious practices such as prayer and fasting more difficult or inconvenient.
In Israel, DST has been a point of contention between the religious and secular, resulting in fluctuations over the years, and a shorter DST period than in the EU and US. Religious Jews prefer a shorter DST [a] due to DST delaying the time for morning prayers , thus conflicting with standard working and business hours. Additionally, DST is ended before Yom Kippur a hour fast day starting and ending at sunset, much of which is spent praying in synagogue until the fast ends at sunset since DST would result in the day ending later, which many feel makes it more difficult.
Proponents of DST generally argue that it saves energy, promotes outdoor leisure activity in the evening in summer , and is therefore good for physical and psychological health, [] reduces traffic accidents, reduces crime or is good for business. A meta-analysis of 44 studies found that DST leads to electricity savings of 0. Electricity use is greatly affected by geography, climate, and economics, so the results of a study conducted in one place may not be relevant to another country or climate.
Later sunset times from DST are thought to affect behavior; for example, increasing participation in after-school sports programs or outdoor afternoon sports such as golf, and attendance at professional sporting events.
Many farmers oppose DST, particularly dairy farmers as the milking patterns of their cows do not change with the time. stock exchanges, [] Others have asserted that the observed results depend on methodology [] and disputed the findings, [] though the original authors have refuted points raised by disputers.
There are measurable adverse effects of DST on human health. A correlation between clock shifts and increase in traffic accidents has been observed in North America and the UK but not in Finland or Sweden. DST likely reduces some kinds of crime, such as robbery and sexual assault , as fewer potential victims are outdoors after dusk. In , a publication of three replicating studies of individuals, between individuals, and transecting societies, by Ben Simon, Vallat, Rossi and Walker demonstrate that sleep loss affects the human motivation to help others, which in their fMRI findings is "associated with deactivation of key nodes within the social cognition brain network that facilitates prosociality.
Furthermore, they detected, through analysis of over 3 million real-world charitable donations, that loss of sleep inflicted by the transition to Daylight Saving Time, reduces altruistic giving compared to controls being states not implementing DST. They conclude that implications for cooperative, civil society are "non-trivial. Cho, Barnes and Guanara, in their study which also took advantage of sleep manipulation due to the shift to daylight saving time in the spring, analyzed archival data from judicial punishment imposed by U.
federal courts which showed sleep-deprived judges exact more severe penalties. DST's clock shifts have the obvious disadvantage of complexity. People must remember to change their clocks; this can be time-consuming, particularly for mechanical clocks that cannot be moved backward safely.
The length of the calendar day becomes variable; it is no longer always 24 hours. Disruption to meetings, travel, broadcasts, billing systems, and records management is common, and can be expensive. Some clock-shift problems could be avoided by adjusting clocks continuously [] or at least more gradually [] —for example, Willett at first suggested weekly minute transitions—but this would add complexity and has never been implemented.
DST inherits and can magnify the disadvantages of standard time. For example, when reading a sundial , one must compensate for it along with time zone and natural discrepancies.
As explained by Richard Meade in the English Journal of the American National Council of Teachers of English, the form daylight savings time with an "s" was already in much more common than the older form daylight saving time in American English "the change has been virtually accomplished".
Nevertheless, even dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster's, American Heritage, and Oxford, which describe actual usage instead of prescribing outdated usage and therefore also list the newer form , still list the older form first.
This is because the older form is still very common in print and preferred by many editors. Merriam-Webster's also lists the forms daylight saving without "time" , daylight savings without "time" , and daylight time. More than that, it ought to be accepted as the better form. In Britain, Willett's proposal [33] used the term daylight saving , but by the term summer time replaced daylight saving time in draft legislation. The name of local time typically changes when DST is observed.
American English replaces standard with daylight : for example, Pacific Standard Time PST becomes Pacific Daylight Time PDT. In the United Kingdom, the standard term for UK time when advanced by one hour is British Summer Time BST , and British English typically inserts summer into other time zone names, e.
Central European Time CET becomes Central European Summer Time CEST. The North American English mnemonic "spring forward, fall back" also "spring ahead fall behind" helps people remember in which direction to shift the clocks.
Changes to DST rules cause problems in existing computer installations. For example, the change to DST rules in North America required that many computer systems be upgraded, with the greatest impact on e-mail and calendar programs.
The upgrades required a significant effort by corporate information technologists. Some applications standardize on UTC to avoid problems with clock shifts and time zone differences. However, even if UTC is used internally, the systems still require external leap second updates and time zone information to correctly calculate local time as needed.
The tz database maps a name to the named location's historical and predicted clock shifts. This database is used by many computer software systems, including most Unix-like operating systems, Java , and the Oracle RDBMS ; [] HP 's "tztab" database is similar but incompatible.
Internal time is stored in time-zone-independent Unix time ; the TZ is used by each of potentially many simultaneous users and processes to independently localize time display.
Older or stripped-down systems may support only the TZ values required by POSIX , which specify at most one start and end rule explicitly in the value.
Such a TZ value must be changed whenever DST rules change, and the new value applies to all years, mishandling some older timestamps. A move to permanent daylight saving time staying on summer hours all year with no time shifts is sometimes advocated and is currently implemented in some jurisdictions such as Argentina, Belarus, [] Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, [51] Namibia, Saskatchewan , Singapore, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Yukon.
Although Saskatchewan follows Central Standard Time, its capital city Regina experiences solar noon close to , in effect putting the city on permanent daylight time.
Similarly, Yukon is classified as being in the Mountain Time Zone, though in effect it observes permanent Pacific Daylight Time to align with the Pacific time zone in summer, but local solar noon in the capital Whitehorse occurs nearer to , in effect putting Whitehorse on "double daylight time".
Advocates cite the same advantages as normal DST without the problems associated with the twice yearly time shifts. Additional benefits have also been cited, including safer roadways, boosting the tourism industry, and energy savings.
Detractors cite the relatively late sunrises, particularly in winter, that year-round DST entails. The United Kingdom and Ireland put clocks forward by an extra hour during World War II and experimented with year-round summer time between and In the United States, the Florida , Washington , California , and Oregon legislatures have all passed bills to enact permanent DST, but the bills require Congressional approval in order to take effect.
Maine, Massachusetts , New Hampshire, and Rhode Island have also introduced proposals or commissions to that effect. Since Scott Yates, a former journalist and publicist, created the site LockTheClock - Stop Changing Clocks for Daylight Saving Time and has been aggressively lobbying for permanent DST in the whole of USA.
If it were to pass through the House of Representatives and be signed by President Joe Biden , any state in the United States currently observing daylight saving time would begin to do so year-round starting in November In September , the European Commission proposed to end seasonal clock changes as of In March , the European Parliament approved the commission's proposal, while deferring implementation from until Experts in circadian rhythms and sleep caution against permanent daylight saving time, recommending year-round standard time as the preferred option for public health and safety.
Various chronobiology societies have published position papers against adopting DST permanently. A paper by The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms states: "The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Seasonal adjustment of clocks. For other uses, see DST disambiguation. Northern hemisphere summer. Southern hemisphere summer.
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Our timezone, the daylight saving dates and the rules around what happens if you are working when the clocks change are governed by 2 pieces of legislation. New Zealand first introduced daylight saving time in The current times have been fixed since Date printed 02 November Search Govt. Your browser currently has JavaScript turned off, which means that Govt. nz might not display properly on your device.
It's easy to turn JavaScript on - find out how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Skip to main content. Recreation and the environment. Daylight saving Daylight saving starts at 2 am on Sunday 25 September when clocks go forward 1 hour. In this section Governing legislation Our timezone, the daylight saving dates and the rules around what happens if you are working when the clocks change are governed by 2 pieces of legislation.
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