Daylight Saving Time is the practice of adjusting clock time to achieve longer evening daylight, usually in summer. Clocks are set an hour ahead in the spring, then set back an hour in the autumn. The mnemonic “Spring forward, fall back” helps those who live in Daylight Saving Time areas to remember which way to set their clocks. The term Daylight Savings Time, with an “s” added to the end of Saving, is technically incorrect, though it is in usage. Daylight Saving Time was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin, though perhaps, more in jest. The first modern idea of Daylight Saving Time was proposed in 1895 by New Zealander George Hudson. It was first used in Europe during WWI, then in the United States where it was called “fast time”. Daylight Saving Time (DST) was instituted year-round in WWII, then called “war time”. Today, 70 countries practice DST, with beginning and ending dates varying.
In Britain and the European Union, Daylight Saving Time is called British Summer Time. (BST) Non-daylight saving time is called British Winter Time (BWT). British Summer Time begins on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday of October.
Examples
Daylight saving time and VCRs may have killed most of the drive-in movie theaters by the 1980s, but for Billings-area residents, the Amusement Park Drive-In continues to pack in the families. (The Missoulian)
Utah lawmakers have again denied an initiative that sought to opt the state out of daylight saving time. (The Deseret News)
Equipped with Casio’s Multi-Band 6 Atomic Timekeeping technology, the PRW-3500 alleviates concerns about changing the time for Daylight Saving Time or leap years. (The Jakarta Post)
Changing clocks twice a year for British Summer Time raises the risk of having a heart attack the next day by about eight per cent, according to new research (The Daily Mail)
The period when the clocks are 1 hour ahead (which began on March 30 this year) is called British Summer Time (BST), or sometimes Daylight Savings Time. (The Canterbury Times)
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