Daylight Savings Time Ending for Different Timezones
Daylight saving time (DST) is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months. This is usually done so that people get up earlier in the morning to experience more daylight. Users typically adjust clocks one hour forward near the start of spring and then simply adjust them back in the autumn.
Different countries in different time zones adjust their clocks at different times, which means these daylight savings end at different times as well.
In the U.S., daylight savings time began March 9 and will end on Nov. 2, Sunday at 2 a.m. EDT. For the U.K. and Ireland, daylight savings time began on March 30 and will end on Oct. 26.
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France, Germany, Greece, and Bulgaria follow daylight savings time for the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In Australia, daylight savings time only began a few days ago, Oct. 4 and will end on April 5 next year.
While most countries do not follow daylight savings time, some parts of Australia also do not follow DST such as Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. Other countries who do not follow DST include most of the African region, Southeast Asia, and the Asian Region.
The idea of modern daylight savings was first proposed by New Zealander George Vernon Hudson in 1895. It was first implemented by Germany and Austria-Hungary on April 30, 1916. Since then, a lot of countries has been using the DST system, most consistently during the energy crisis of 1970.
