Daylight Saving Time Ends 2024 is on Saturday, November 2, 2024: What is the origin of daylight saving?

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What is the origin of daylight saving?

DST (daylight saving time) is most commonly used in temperate regions, due to the considerable variation in the amount of daylight versus darkness across the seasons in those regions.

In Australia, daylight saving time is a state/territory-based initiative. Some states/territories implement it and some do not.

New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia apply DST. Tasmania starts DST earlier than the others, usually near the beginning of October.

Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland do not have DST. Queensland experimented with it for a year or two in the early 1970s, and again in the 1990s, but it was not popular and was abandoned. Western Australia also tried daylight saving no fewer than six times between 1917 and 1992, resulting in three referendums each defeated by a small margin.

As only the states and territories in the south east of the country (South Australia, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania) observe daylight saving time, this has resulted in three time zones becoming five for half the year. South Australia follows Australian Central Daylight Time (ACDT, UTC+10:30) and the south eastern states follow Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT, UTC+11).

Of the states that observe daylight saving, most begin on the last Sunday in October at 2:00 am local standard time, and end on the last Sunday in March at 3:00 am local daylight saving time. An exception to this is the island state of Tasmania, which (due to its southern latitude) begins daylight saving earlier, on the first Sunday in October at 2:00 am local standard time.

Public opinion of daylight saving in Queensland is divided. The Queensland-New South Wales border area is heavily populated and as a result businesses are inconvenienced by the difference in time. Generally, the urban south east corner would prefer daylight saving, and the rural towns and farming regions elsewhere would not, although this is a very generalised view. There are currently two online petitions on the Queensland Government website about daylight saving. One supports its introduction and one advocates maintaining the status quo.

Governments often tout it as an energy conservation measure, on the grounds that it allows more effective use of natural sunlight resource in summer time. Since there is less darkness in the "waking day", there is less use of electric lights. Some opponents reject this argument.

Fire safety officials in Australia, encourage citizens to use the two annual time changes as a reminder to check the batteries in home and office fire alarms and smoke detectors. For example, the Country Fire Authority of Victoria has been running a program called "Change Your Clock, Change Your Smoke Alarm Battery" for several years. This is especially important in autumn, just before the heating season causes an increase in home fires.

DST is not universally accepted and many localities in the world do not observe it.

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End Daylight Saving or Time Zones?

End Daylight Saving or Time Zones?

I fully support Daylight Saving Time.

As for getting rid of time zones, you should read about the so-called "world clock" which had its 15 minutes of fame near the dawn of the internet age.

The trouble with putting the entire country on Central Standard time year round is that here in New York, the sun would come up about 3:15 a.m. in June and set around 6:30 p.m. Don't you think it would be pointless for people to sleep through three hours of daylight in the morning. Meanwhile, in December, sunset would come at 3:15 every afternoon.

In Hawaii, the sun would come up at 11 a.m. on June mornings. In December, sunrise would actually happen in the afternoon, after 1 p.m. Summer evenings would be really, really long in Hawaii, 11:30 p.m., and people would have to go to bed hours before sunset in order to get up four hours before dawn!

No wonder not a single other person thinks we should put the entire country on Central Standard Time! (giggles)

Can someone tell me when daylight saving time begins and ends this year?

Can someone tell me when daylight saving time begins and ends this year?

In 2009 Daylight Saving Time begins on March 8 at 2 AM and ends on November 1.

Generally speaking, Daylight Saving Time begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. Note that although commonly referred to as Daylight Savings Time, there is "officially" no "s."

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