The Brazilians formerly set their watches to Winter Time in February (before abolishing DST), while neighboring Paraguay is waiting until the end of March. While in New York one has already changed to the next time, in Chicago, Denver or Los Angeles the changeover is still to come. Within the USA, on the other hand, there are 7 different time zones and thus always 7 different times for the changeover. Portugal (CET -1) thus changes its clocks at 1 a.m. EU countries that are not in CET at all adjust the changeover to it. The entire EU changes the clocks at the same time (2:00 a.m. Summer time in Europe therefore starts 1-2 weeks later and ends 1 week earlier. in the European Union this is already different: There it is always changed on the last Sunday in March and October. Within the USA, this is always the 2nd Sunday in March and the 1st Sunday in November. Ideas for the top 33 daylight savings quotes were taken from the following sources.Dates for the time change The change from Daylight Saving Time to Winter Time (Standard Time) is done in each country according to individually defined rules. Hour of daylight in their childhood.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra ![]() World’s history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. “Better three hours too soon than a minute tooġ.”It seems very strange … that in the course of the If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.” - St.Ģ. “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what “Time is the most valuable thing a man canģ. ![]() We borrow an hour one night in April we pay it back with golden interest fiveĤ. Snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. “An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra “How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.”Ħ. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.” -Ģ7. “I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. “You will never find anybody who can give you a clearĪnd compelling reason why we observe daylight saving time.” - Dave BarryĢ8. “Daylight time, a monstrosity in timekeeping.” - Harry S. Healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.” - Robertson Daviesģ0. The daylight saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism,Įager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them Insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy ![]() Object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bedĪfter the sun has risen. There is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am savingĭaylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. “I don’t really care how time is reckoned so long as ![]() The rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” - C.S.ģ1. “The future is something which everyone reaches at “I say it is impossible that so sensible a people, under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome and enormously expensive light of candles if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.” - Benjamin Franklinģ2.
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