Daylight Saving Time Explained

A brief history and explanation of daylight saving time.
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[Aotearoa628]

5:42 China follows ONE time zone.

[vwluis]

That wouldn't be hard, i don't think it's a good idea but it could be easily introduced. You just need a time that works alongside the usual/normal time, let's say that we make gmt the official worldwide timezone, once that is approved you will have to use that time in official documents and such, like if you had to plan that conference, because of that, clocks will be put up featuring the gmt timezone, and it will become more common to everyone, people would get familiar with that time

[coTECHppls]

See that fucking little comment 'for the merely civilised' go fuck yourself. Always slamming down other people. Just give us facts and not your opinion it isnt funny its just disrespectful. Cnt

[DiscGolfer947]

That wouldn't work very well at all. There is an episode of How The States Got Their Shapes that explains this very well. But I do agree that daylight savings time is absolutely useless.

[damataita]

Think how much more beer is drunk during DST afternoon than if there wasn't DST. Not the money saved, but the money won with a longer afternoon is the real reason for keeping this thing. Regards from Brazil.

[glenday999]

wearing dozens of jackets and scarfs more like

[MinerDaPro]

Not part of Russia...

[senya1981]

Ukraine still uses it. :P

[Настя Ермошенко]

No! Since autumn 2011 Russia stopped using DST.

[Max MVP]

Russia uses Daylight Saving Time, as well as most of ex-USSR republics still do!

[FiercelyPoetic]

"Yo, dawg, I heard you like timezones so we put some timezones in your timezones."

XD

[DrDeathpwnsu]

Boo outside!