Daylight Savings?

Question

Why were the daylight savings start and end dates changed?

Answer 1

Bush thinks that changing the day we set back the clocks for daylight savings will save energy. That is like when he said to try to drive downhill as much as you can in order to save gas. We all can drive downhill to work,and drive downhill home! All my clocks,and computer, that were pre-programed at the factory are now obsolete,and show the WRONG time. How's that 10,000$ Rolex doing with the new time change? Now kids get run over in the dark by drivers that are trying to get to work late cuz their clocks are screwed up!
THANKS GEORGE !

Answer 2

So that it's more daylight and people save on electricity.
In March, though, when daylight savings time started this year, people must have really enjoyed the extra daylight and used more gas than ever in a March, to take advantage of the long days.

Answer 3

Don't set your clocks back an hour this weekend or you'll have a lot of coworkers laughing at you on Monday morning. This year, Daylight Saving Time ends 2 a.m. the first Sunday in November, instead of the last Sunday in October.

For that, you can thank the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005. To save energy, U.S. legislators set the stage then for 34 weeks of DST, beginning this year.

The savings "could be in the ballpark" of 1% of household consumption on a daily basis, said Rob Douglas, research officer at the time standards group of the National Research Council of Canada.

So it won't be until next week that everyone rolls back the hands of time -- everyone except Saskatchewan that is. The province stubbornly sticks with Central Standard Time, year round.

Answer 4

The start and end dates of Daylight Time change frequently from country to country.

The longer Daylight Time lasts, the less need there is to use artificial light in the evenings. When it's light out, more people go outside and engage in healthy outdoor activity rather than sitting at their computers. (giggles) Since a lot fewer people get up in the early, early mornings, than go outside in the evening, there's less net energy use with Daylight Saving time. It's also safer, since evening visibility means less crime and fewer traffic accidents.

Each country, and in some places each state, get to decide for themselves when to begin and end Daylight Time. We in the United States decided that this year we should start on the second Sunday of March and end the first Sunday of November. Before that it was first Sunday of April and last Sunday of October. And before that, I can remember when it was last Sunday of April and last Sunday of October.

Europe used to be last Sunday of March and last Sunday of September.

In Australia, each state decides for itself. In 2006, Western Australia finally began using Daylight Saving, from last Sunday of October to last Sunday of March.

In southern Brazil they have Daylight Time, but the government decides each year what date to proclaim it on. Last year, it started the first Sunday of November. This year, they decided to begin second Sunday of October.

Answer 5

Our Government thought it would "save energy" & money- by extending D.S.T. in the Spring AND Fall... Just WHOSE energy & money- is debateable... :(

Answer 6

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.php

Has the information about DST dates. This fall it will be on Nov 4.