Europe Starts Daylight Saving On March 25, 2012

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Europe Starts Daylight Saving on March 25, 2012

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Daylight Saving Time (DST) will begin in most of Europe in the early morning of Sunday March 25, 2012, when clocks move 1 hour forward. The precise time of the switch differs from country to country.

US & Canada start DST Sunday, March 11

Australia & NZ end DST Sunday, April 1

Synchronized schedule

In most European countries DST begins on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October. This is the case in:

all countries in the European Union (EU) - including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy

most other European countries - including Norway and Switzerland

Some European countries, like Iceland, Russia, and Belarus, do not observe DST. [more...]

Source: http://www.timeandda...s-dst-2012.html

-- timeanddate.com 2012-03-24

[peecee]

Woke up & it was lunch time!

[JohnAllan]

You don't SAVE daylight during the summer months. That was tried one time in the UK, for the winter. In the UK, the clocks going forward changes GMT to BST - not DST - which stands for British Summer Time. The purpose is to extend evening daylight, not to save on morning daylight which looks after itself.