How exactly does daylight savings time work ?

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And what's the benefit of using DST ?

Answer 1

We live by the clock. Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time are efforts to make daylight hours match the clock. In the spring you really could get up and get going earlier than your 6AM wake-up. Easy: Set the clock ahead an hour... The alarm will go off an hour earlier by sun time. That's DST. Don't want to get up at 6 AM and face more darkness? Easy: Set the clock back: What used to be 6AM is now only 5AM - and you don't have to get up!

Answer 2

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How exactly does daylight savings time work ?
And what's the benefit of using DST ?

Answer 3

Ben Franklin originated the idea of day light savings time.
A factory in the colonies had asked him a way to save money, reducing their overhead costs of manufacturing. Ben realized, that in the summer months, employees were using candles early in the morning when they got to work. He advised the factory owners to simply change the work hours with the seasons, so that by coming in to work an hour later in the summer, no candles were needed, thereby saving money. This idea caught on, until it became state laws during the world wars, again, as a means to save money by reducing the amount of energy used for lights.

Answer 4

The theory is that an hour of daylight in the evening is worth more than an hour in the morning, so clocks are set ahead in the spring and back in the fall.

Answer 5

Well, you put the time one hour forward - or backward...
Anyway, I think they started in sometime around WW1 because of using all the light of the day to work or something like that, which doesn't really make sense to me, cuz the hour more that you get in the morning, is an hour less that you have in the evening... *confused myself* :o/

Answer 6

it's a one hour difference
Spring forward
Fall back
it helps balance the short days with the long days due to our planetary orbit being elliptical