Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time (also called DST, or summer time) is the portion of the year in which a region's local time is advanced by (usually) one hour from its official standard time. It is most common in temperate regions.

External links

• A Brief History of DST
• Straightforward discussion of DST
• End Daylight Saving Time (history and analysis of the practice)
• EU directive 2000/84/EC
• Daylight saving time, its history and why we use it - from U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
• DST changeover times throughout the world
• Sources for daylight saving time data, including histories and predictions
• Summer Time by JR Stockton. With future changeover dates EU (until 2007 final, from then extrapolating)
• World Time Server

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• Sleep deficit and accidents
• National Association of Standard Time
• Greenwich Mean Time: World Time
• PhotoSydney: Daylight Saving examines daylight saving in Australia.