Do all countries' clocks go back an hour in winter and forward in spring?

Answer 1

In Australia only some states still have daylight savings. Queensland got rid of it for a number of reasons. One being that the farmers complained it was upsetting the cows timetable.

Answer 2

No.

British Summer Time (BST) or daylight saving time comes into effect between the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October each year.

BST is one hour in advance of GMT and remains this way for the duration of the spring and summer months. Other countries around the world that use daylight saving time include: the USA; Russia; most of Europe; and the Commonwealth.


BST started in 1916.
Introduced in 1916, daylight saving is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. It allows for more efficient use of natural sunlight in summer-time and is therefore seen as an energy conservation measure, as less electricity is used in every household. There are also the obvious social impacts, as longer hours of daylight in the evenings means increased daylight leisure time for those who work.

There are many who would advocate that summer-time is kept all year round, as was the case during the Second World War when British Summer Time was permanently in force from February 1940 until October 1945; however, this is opposed by other groups of people,such as farmers and other outdoor workers.

Permanent summer-time would have social disadvantages for people living in such areas as the north-west of Scotland, where sunrise would occur at 10am in the middle of winter and children would have to travel to school in darkness. When Britain tried a four-year experiment of permament summer-time in 1968, those living further north found the continuous dark mornings most unsatisfactory.


BST 2006 will occur from 26 March to 29 October.
In 2002 an order was made to link UK summer-time (BST) to Europe permanently, so that summer (or daylight saving) time will be kept between the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October across Europe.
The change for 2006 will occur from 26 March to 29 October and will take place at 01.00 GMT.

The BST changes for 2007 will take effect from 25 March and 28 October and these dates have been confirmed by the UK Parliament for the UK and Northern Ireland.

Answer 3

No. Most countries on or near the Equator do not change the clocks. I was in Curacao when the clocks were "Flogged" in the Uk etc. They did not, nor does Trinidad & Tobago and most of the West Indies

Answer 4

No, other countries that I have lived in do not muck about, and quite rightly so.
I wish that the UK would stick to GMT, or Z time.
I would not have to fiddle with 15 timepeices twice per annum.
Cars, the boat, central heating at home ... the list could go on.
It is, in my opinion, a daft notion, and should be scrapped.

Answer 5

No.

I recently went on a holiday to Japan and have also been studying Japan and it's culture for a while, and they do not have daylight savings. I'm not sure about other countries, but Japan definately does not have daylight savings.

I live in Australia and we do have daylight savings here.

Answer 6

No they do not, I think the united states is the only country that recognise's day light savings and even then not all of the states participate in the day light savings ritual

Answer 7

Not even all US states observe DST.

Arizona & Hawaii do not.

Indiana did not until this year (2006).

Answer 8

no only northern and southern hemisphere countries change their times the countries in the hot zones don't change their time(eg Africa and central Asia etc)

Answer 9

No. Not all countries employ daylight saving. I'm from South Africa where I know they don't use it.

Answer 10

I know that Iceland don't bother.
I mean why should they? It's constantly dark in winter whatever they do!