daylight savings time?

Question

who in the world has the authority to make daylight savings time early?

Answer 1

Hi Mrs. D.

World governments do.

This is an old argument. God made the sun. Men made clocks.

When Standard Time was first adopted by the railroads in the 1880s, some clergy complained about people interfering with "God's time." Of course, it's nothing of the sort. The sun and the stars continue in their courses, with no help from humans. Standard Time simply avoids the need for travelers to change their clocks dozens or hundreds of times in every town they reach. Broadcasters can start their shows at the top of the hour everywhere, instead of each affiliate having to say, in Philadelphia for example, "the NBC Nightly News at 6:26 p.m."

Daylight Saving Time is no different. Governments set it, employing their law-making powers to get the clocks to agree. All they do, in Daylight Saving time, is temporarily to adopt the time of the next time zone to the east, so people will have extra light in the evenings (at the expense of some light in the very early morning).

Congress does it in the US. In Canada and Australia, each individual state and province does it for itself. In Europe, the European Parliament sets the dates, continent-wide.

Answer 2

Apparently Congress does. . .

Answer 3

it has something to do with economics...I don't feel like sleeping because of it.