Most areas in North America and Europe, and some areas in the Middle East observe change time in spring to daylight saving time (DST), and back again in autumn.
Most areas of Africa and Asia do not.
In South America most countries in the north of the continent near the equator do not observe DST, while Paraguay and southern parts of Brazil do.
Oceania is also mixed, with New Zealand and parts of southeastern Australia observing DST, while most other areas do not.
Not all countries use the same dates in spring and autumn.
The idea was proposed at various times in history, including by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, and New Zealander George Hudson in 1895.
The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation, starting on April 30, 1916.
In the United States, Arizona and Hawaii don't participate in the time change. Most of the dependencies and territories (perhaps all of them) also don't participate--Guam, Puerto Rico, the Marianas Islands and the U. S. Virgin Islands. I personally think it's idiocy, and if i recall correctly, it was enacted as a means for the railroads to standardize time-keeping in the States, for their own corporate purposes. However, government doesn't listen to my advice.
I tried to check that, but was too lazy to dig very deeply.
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centrox
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Sat 11 Mar, 2017 07:19 am
@jespah,
jespah wrote:
Is Indiana still on a county per county basis?
The whole state has used DST since April 2006. Most of the state uses Eastern Time, but some counties to the north-west and south-west use Central Time.
If you lived in North Platt, Nebraska you could see it change when you crossed the street, though this has nothing to do with daylight savings.
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Photography Lover
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Sat 11 Mar, 2017 10:30 pm
@visceral,
In New Zealand it is currently daylight saving time. Daylight saving ends on the 2nd of April 2017 where the clocks go back 1 hour which is Autumn in New Zealand. Daylight saving here will then start again on 24 September 2017 where the clocks go forward an hour.
The changes here always happen on around the same time of the year and always at 2am Sunday morning.
That reminds me of the time I went to a wife-swapping party and I didn't get home until 3 in the morning with the ride on mower. It would have been earlier but I lost an hour. Sometimes I wonder what ever became of that mower.
During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, publisher of the old English proverb "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing window shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST; 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail transport and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.
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centrox
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Sun 12 Mar, 2017 04:54 am
@jespah,
jespah wrote:
Thanks! I do recall visiting (egad, it was the mid-70s) and wondering why the time changed when you crossed counties.
Between 1918 and 2006 Indiana time was a crazy patchwork.
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visceral
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Mon 13 Mar, 2017 12:30 pm
@ekename,
Lollll I wonder how you sleep at night...with that energizer mind of yours
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