
At 3am
Sunday, October 25, Macedonia will turn the clock back one hour to
winter daylight saving time until the last Sunday in March, 2010.
Daylight Saving Time (or summertime as it is called
in many countries) is a way of getting more light out of the day by
advancing clocks by one hour during the summer. During Daylight Saving
Time (DST), the sun appears to rise one hour later in the morning, when
people are usually asleep anyway, and sets one hour later in the
evening, seeming to stretch the day longer.
The reason DST works is because its saves energy due
to less artificial light needed during the evening hours—clocks are set
one hour ahead during the spring, and one hour back to standard time in
the autumn.
Benjamin Franklin first suggested Daylight Saving
Time in 1784, but it was not until World War I, in 1916, when it was
adopted by several counties in Europe that initially rejected the idea.
The daylight saving date in many countries may
change from time to time due to special events or conditions.The United
States, Canada and some other countries extended DST in 2007. The new
start date is the second Sunday in March (previously the first Sunday
in April) through to the first Sunday in November (previously the last
Sunday in October).
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