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Any confirmation of German steel producer anecdote?

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After spending more time on this than I really should have, I finally tracked down the origin of the "German steel producer splattering molten steel" story. It is from the 1993 "Risks Digest", moderated by Peter G. Neumann. It was posted by Debora Weber-Wulff, a professor in Germany. Unfortunately, it starts with: "A student told this quite believable tale about a German steel-producer last week..." and ends with "Any confirmation of this from sources other than a friend of a friend?" It appears that from here, it was reproduced as fact in Peter G. Neumann's 1995 book, Computer-Related Risks, without citation. In fact, my thanks to an Associate Professor at NC State whose lecture notes on the topic correctly cited the Weber-Wulff post.

So...has anyone ever actually confirmed that the story happened as described? It has become an oft-repeated anecdote, but is it true? And, if not independently confirmed, should it still be in this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GuyBehindtheGuy (talk • contribs) 16:15, 9 March 2015 (UTC) ' I'm not seeing Venezuela. Shouldn't the map show Venezuela -Joshua Clement Broyles — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.27.145.54 (talk) 21:26, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Effects on health: Any research on morning people vs evening people?

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I notice that the article has not mentioned one of the things I notice most; that I tend to exercise in the morning (like many people), going down to the beach, doing exercise and/or meditation and in the evening after work, I'm tired, and spend the evening in front of the TV or computer. So for me, and many I observe, counter to the claim there is more time for outdoor sport, Daylight Savings means less time for myself in the morning, when I have energy. I notice many people exercising at the beach in the morning, few in the eveinging. I've noticed many people, as I do come home from work, make dinner, watch the evening news, then settle in. It is the time children and family are home, time for dinner, and spending time together... not for going out. When using screens, low angled sun casts glare, leading to closing curtains. Then artificial light is used, so there is no energy savings. (203.214.90.234 (talk) 21:23, 16 March 2015 (UTC))

It's a very interesting question. The intuitive answer is that using DST certainly favours evening people. I would encourage you to see if there's some research on the subject. For what it's worth I have to say I have the exact opposite experience from you. I find it very hard to exercise in the morning, but much easier in the evening if there's daylight, so as soon as we switch away from DST my exercise level drops significantly. But these are obviously all very subjective experience heavily dependent on many other factors such as family situation, work, age, living arrangement etc... Would be hard to do a really representative study without major methodological problems. Peregrine981 (talk) 10:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Error in definition

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Is it correct that daylight saving is "advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that light extends into the evening hours"? Technically light does not extend any further into the evening hours. Times are altered so that daylight hours commence and end an hour later than during standard time.Royalcourtier (talk) 00:03, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

I think it is correct; the light's absolute time has not changed, but it does extend further into the evening hours which have been shifted. Evening is not an absolute concept, but rather a relative marker of time created by human time keeping. Peregrine981 (talk) 21:35, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Orthography: why it should be "daylight-saving time"

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I contend that the phrase which forms the title of this page should always be written with a hyphen: "daylight-saving time". Happily, Wikipedia itself supports me in this: see English_compound#Hyphenated_compound_modifiers, which says "The following compound modifiers are always hyphenated when they are not written as one word: [...] a noun, adjective, or adverb preceding a present participle [...]" (emphasis in original). Just as (to use one of the examples from that page) an awe-inspiring personality is a personality that inspires awe, so daylight-saving time is a time that saves daylight.

Failure to follow this rule from the beginning has led to precisely the outcome predicted on that page: people don't understand how the phrase was intended to be parsed. This can be seen not only from the written form of the common corruption of the phrase, "daylight savings time", but also from the common pronunciation, where "sav" is stressed more strongly than "day" (in American English, anyway), when the correct parse would be pronounced with "day" stressed more strongly than "sav".

If no one objects, I would like to make this change throughout the page. (Hmm, I suppose there's additional complexity involved in changing the title, as references may have to be updated; how does one do that?)

ScottBurson (talk) 23:42, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I don't understand why there isn't a hyphen here, but before making changes, check to see that that is the common usage. I don't like it when the majority of people use improper usage, but again, this should depend on what the majority of people and definitions use. Dustin (talk) 23:47, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Oh, it's clear that the common usage is – and apparently has been for over a century – to omit the hyphen. My guess is that that's how the first person to use the phrase wrote it, and hardly anyone has corrected it. But a few have; indeed, if you search the main page for "daylight-saving", you'll see some occurrences, including one in the "terminology" section, where the hyphen is declared acceptable, though not mandatory.
I would summarize the situation thus. Common usage is clearly incorrect, and has resulted in visible confusion ("daylight savings time"). The correct usage is, however, not vanishingly rare; it would be hard to argue that people won't understand the phrase with the added hyphen. The question is whether Wikipedia would prefer to adopt the less common, correct usage over the common but incorrect. I've looked through the Wikipedia style manual, but haven't seen a general pronouncement on this question. ScottBurson (talk) 21:08, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
I see it this way: A lot of people these days write the 3rd person neuter possessive pronoun its with an apostrophe (The dog wagged it's tail), because it seems to make logical sense to do so. And it probably does. It's just that the universal consensus has been that the pronoun is spelt without an apostrophe, to distinguish it from the abbreviation it's, which is short for it is or it has. The consensus could well have been the other way around, but it is what it is, and people who care about such things do what they can to stem the ever-increasing tide of it'sers.
With DST, the overwhelming consensus has been to spell it without a hyphen. To suddenly change that on the basis of consistency with some other complex constructions is well-intended, but would cut absolutely no ice with the general populace and would thus be an empty gesture. Wikipedia is not here to instruct people on how they should talk or write. Neither should that be the purpose of a dictionary. But our sister dictionary Wiktionary seriously oversteps its brief by saying "the hyphenated form is best grammatically". What sort of grammar would that be? Answer: prescriptive grammar. Because descriptive grammar has DST very definitely in the No Hyphen camp, and there's no sign the matter is in a state of flux or up for discussion in the wider community. We take our marching orders from them, not the other way around. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 07:34, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
I know Wikipedia is not in the business of instructing its readers on how they should talk or write. But it is in the business of informing them, and clarity of expression supports that end.
Descriptive grammar isn't just about what people say or write. It's also about how they actually understand one another's speech and writing. When one person speaks or writes a phrase intending one parse, and a hearer or reader parses the phrase differently, I think even a descriptivist is forced to admit that something has gone wrong. Noam Chomsky has always been vigorously descriptivist, but I can hardly imagine him suggesting that syntax doesn't matter! So, in fact, I agree with Wiktionary: the hyphenated form is best grammatically, not because Latin does it that way or for some other reason concocted in an ivory tower, but simply because it is significantly more likely to be parsed correctly.
I'm not trying to get into a discussion of Wiktionary's editorial policy; this isn't the place. And I'm not trying to tell Wikipedia's readers that they've been doing it wrong and should change (though if they do decide to change, I obviously think that would be great). I just want people who come to the page to understand what is written there. I'm an educated American, and for most of my adult life I did not get how this phrase was intended to be parsed; when I saw the hyphenated form, which some people do use, and understood the phrase for the first time, I was dismayed that the hyphen had been habitually omitted. ScottBurson (talk) 07:18, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
I'm dismayed when I hear Americans say "I could care less", when, as is almost always the case, they mean the exact opposite ("I couldn't care less"). But that seems to be the idiom over there, at least for a sizeable chunk of the population; and my dismay factor aside, I don't feel it's my place to tell them they've said it wrong. Every variety of English has its irrational idiosyncracies, and I'm sure Australian English has plenty of things that make zero sense to anybody else. The point is that the English language is as it is; not how anyone thinks it ought to be. That applies to both spoken and written forms.
That said, I wouldn't have any objection to a note somewhere in the article to say that 'daylight' and 'saving' are sometimes hyphenated, and that there is academic support for that version (with citations, of course). That should just be a brief acknowledgement, not any sort of mini-campaign to change the world. The main form we use in the title and throughout the article should remain the form in general use, the unhyphenated version. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 07:49, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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Benjamin Franklin

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The article says Franklin did not invent DST. I'm afraid this is original research. The Block article actually says that he did. OK, time wasn't standardised back then, but Franklin does refer to looking at his watch and seeing it was six o'clock, checking almanacs, etc. Presumably he set his watch based on noon. The concept of DST is there.--Jack Upland (talk) 10:58, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Second Clock Face Not Accurate

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It seems to me that - in North America at least - all changes happen around 2am. The first clock face correctly shows 1:59 followed by 3:00, but the second looks like 2:59 is followed by 2:00.

Isn't it more correct to say that 1:59 is followed by 1:00, and it is the hour from 1 to 2 that is repeated to make the 25th hour that day, not the hour from 2 to 3?

Willing to be shown to be wrong

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Map inaccuracy

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The map at the top of the page here isn't showing the area in Southeastern BC in Canada that doesn't observe DST. I believe that it used to. Perhaps this is a remade version of the map and it was forgotten to include this. Air.light (talk) 16:35, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Capitalization

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Hello. Is there consensus on whether daylight saving time should be capitalized or not capitalized? The article seems to have both treatments. Lbbzman (talk) 13:13, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Half hour DST and double DST

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Should a section be added to cover that? C933103 (talk) 13:49, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Time is just a number

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Instead of going through the tedious process of changing the number on the clock, why not just adjust the habits and schedules every once a while according to sunrise and sunset if efficiency is important? --94.217.98.216 (talk) 01:18, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Then all the businesses that advertised their opening times as 9 am would have to change their stationery, signs, websites for those months...--Jack Upland (talk) 12:07, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Inconsistent naming

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The article seems to switch between the standard "daylight saving time" and the [admittedly better-sounding, but still officially] incorrect "daylight savings time" throughout, likely due to different authors using different style, possibly not even noticing that the article uses the singular version. I'm going to go through and make it conform to "daylight saving time" (as that is the article's name, even if "savings" is more standard) throughout (except, of course, in quotes, proper nouns, titles of external articles, and the Terminology section). Hppavilion1 (talk) 22:43, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Update: It seems the inconsistency was less frequent in changeable content than I first thought; I have changed the relevant usages and also added a note of the differing usage at the beginning of the article. Hppavilion1 (talk) 22:51, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
"Daylight savings" is just a common mistake. I think it is influenced by financial "savings", but this is a false analogy.--Jack Upland (talk) 01:50, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
It's not singular. It is a verb. You're saving dalight. Sometimes it's hyphenated, "daylight-saving." -- Joe (talk) 11:23, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
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How much of the year is DST?

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Is daylight saving time just a few months per year (i.e., summer time in North America or Europe)? Or is it in effect more months per year than standard time? --Uncle Ed (talk) 22:29, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

In the US and Canada DST is definitely in force more days per year than standard time. I believe this is true in the European Union and British Isles too. Jc3s5h (talk) 23:35, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
Yes. 7 months DST, 5 months standard time. --David Biddulph (talk) 23:47, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
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Is it "Daylight Saving Time" or "daylight saving time"?

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Both styles are used. Are both correct or is one more correct than the other?

97.115.204.87 (talk) 13:09, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

In google, there are <3 million hits for "daylight savings time". There are only 500,000 hits for "daylight saving time". The term with the highest usage, by far, is "daylight savings time". That means "daylight savings time" is NOT erroneous. Even if originally, it was meant to be "daylight saving time", people have changed that usage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.142.105.93 (talk • contribs) 23:34, October 28, 2017 (UTC) Meters (talk) 04:33, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
I think the question was about capitalisation, and I think it should be capitalised.--Jack Upland (talk) 16:52, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
We're obviously considering American and Canadian English, because in the UK they call it summer time. Both Merriam Webster and American Heritage dictionary use lower case spelling. American Heritage Dictionary lists "daylight-saving time" first and "daylight-savings time" second. I think Wikipedia should go with established dictionaries rather than resorting to Google. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Its clear to me, based on the poster's argument and his article edit and edit summary, that the original question is about whether the use of "savings" rather than "saving" is a mistake. He was concerned that the article read Daylight saving time (abbreviated DST), also sometimes erroneously referred to as daylight savings time and changed it to read Daylight saving time (abbreviated DST), commonly referred to as daylight savings time. No-one has undone his edit. We have no reliable source for which usage is most common (a google search is not a reliable method) and my desktop reference, The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, lists "daylight saving" and "daylight savings" as the generic terms and "daylight time" and "daylight saving time" as particularly North American versions. There is no entry for "daylight savings time" to my surprise. I will change "commonly" back to "sometimes", which is what was originally in the article, and leave the removal of the characterization of "savings" as an error.
As fir the capitalization, I agree that it should not be capitalized, but will leave that for now pending any other comments. Meters (talk) 19:25, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
Just have the article moved to DST before you reignite an edit war.98.197.198.46 (talk) 22:26, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
This thread is two months old and the content in question is stable. User: Espoo correctly pointed out that we already deal with the "s or no s" issue in the body of the article and that "commonly" is correct. Meters (talk) 02:56, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
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SavingS?

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One of two editors fighting to include the plural version of Daylight SavingS in the lead told to me to see the discussion on the Talk page. There isn't one. Well, not until now. (Glad to be of assistance.)

Our very first source says it's wrong. If we really have to include the fact that some people use the wrong name, we surely should point out that it's wrong, or at least that some reliable sources say it is. And I have never seen a government site use that form.

I am still reluctant to see the wrong version included at all unless I see an official government site using it. HiLo48 (talk) 05:45, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

See Talk:Daylight saving time/Archive 6#Is it "Daylight Saving Time" or "daylight saving time"? If you follow the citations in the article to the US law that establishes DST, it doesn't even mention "daylight", never mind stating whether saving should be a plural. But the prior discussion gives a dictionary citation for using an s; that usage is listed second, after the usage with no s. Jc3s5h (talk) 08:08, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer to the earlier discussion. My concern is still that our very first source says it's wrong, and I have never seen it used officially. It's common usage for many people to say things like "ain't", and "gunna", but we would never pretend in a Wikipedia article that they were correct English. So, yes, some people say "SavingS". We can state that fact. But it's still wrong. That's what our first source says. Surely we should say so too. HiLo48 (talk) 08:22, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
"Ain't" is correct in some situations and is listed in many dictionaries (possibly with a usage label). There is a difference between what we would write in an article, using Wikipedia's voice, and what we would label as wrong. If it's in major dictionaries and not labelled as erroneous in them, then it's not an error.
Also, the first source, timeanddate.com is nothing special. For example, their article on the Revised Julian calendar is superficial, cites no sources, and fails to consider ΔT. Such a source is not in the same league as one of the major dictionaries. Jc3s5h (talk) 08:58, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
"Ain't" ain't right. We know that. It's silly to argue otherwise. I still want to see an official source that uses the plural form. HiLo48 (talk) 09:50, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Here. And here. Jc3s5h (talk) 09:57, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Those are solid American sources, and, as I said in my edit summary, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary includes "daylight savings" as an acceptable variant. A few reliable sources for its use in Canada: The Weather Channel (interestingly, the Weather Channel uses savings consistently in the article, but saving in the headline), GreenwichMeanTime.comagain, used both variant o n the same page, Health Canada.
Wikipedia should not be making statements about what is correct usage. We already have multiple refs in the lead showing the use of savings, and now we've provided additional refs for its use in Canada and the US. I'm not an expert on Australian sources, but a few seconds on Google finds Australian sources such as News.com.au using "savings". I see no problem with leaving the lead as "Daylight saving time (abbreviated DST), sometimes referred to as daylight savings time in US, Canadian and Australian speech, ..." Meters (talk) 18:53, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
OK, I can see it is in common usage in some places, but please don't try to convince me with a Murdoch source. I regard those as excellent sources for football scores. Otherwise rubbish. HiLo48 (talk) 22:48, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I already said I'm not an expert on Australian sources. You made an edit (twice), it was challenged, you have been pointed to the previous discussion, and more sources have now been provided. Feel free to look at the many possible Australian references yourself, and either challenge the inclusion of "and Australian" in that sentence or WP:DROPTHESTICK. Meters (talk) 23:40, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Please don't ask me to prove a negative. Wherever it operates, Daylight Saving has to be a government initiative. So what government sources say on the matter is what must count as correct. I have seen one so far, from an American body I had previously never heard of (NIST), that uses the SavingS form. I accept that as some evidence for the US, but it's nothing for Canada and Australia. HiLo48 (talk) 23:52, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
I'm not going to waste any more time on this. If you want to change the lead you need to get consensus for your change. You don't get to declare that Wikipedia can only include the version that is used by government sources (and by the way, Health Canada is a government source). The Canadian Oxford Dictionary is arguable the preeminent source for Canadian language usage, so, again, wp:DROPTHESTICK. Meters (talk) 05:56, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Please stop misrepresenting what I am arguing for. I have just returned to Wikipedia after a four year break. I was hoping a better level of discussion may have developed, but it hasn't. People still argue against things I haven't said. I may give up on this, but only with great disappointment at the quality of discussion. HiLo48 (talk) 06:33, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

HiLo wrote "Wherever it operates, Daylight Saving has to be a government initiative. So what government sources say on the matter is what must count as correct." I disagree. Yes, daylight saving almost always is a government initiative. But that doesn't mean the government has to give it an easy-to-say-or-write name. The Congress of the United States has instituted daylight saving time, but they did not give it a name, just a description of what it is, together with giving authority to the Department of Commerce to specify some of the details. What they did NOT do is explicitly give any government department the authority to give a name to daylight saving time. Thus, authority to name daylight saving time rests with the people, and their collective decision is documented in dictionaries. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:40, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Another editor arguing against something I didn't say. Or maybe not realising that 95% of the people in the world aren't Americans. HiLo48 (talk) 00:11, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Permanent daylight saving time

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What's the difference between "Permanent daylight saving time" and simply choosing a different time zone for a location? I see none, and wonder why it counts as something special to be mentioned in the article. HiLo48 (talk) 00:56, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Time zones are defined by law. In the case of the US, it's a combination of federal and state law. If the law says it's permanent daylight saving time, that's what it is. Jc3s5h (talk) 01:06, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
That's a Humpty Dumpty answer. Doesn't really answer my question. HiLo48 (talk) 01:28, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
If the government and/or the populace actually use the term or abbreviation indicating daylight time even in winter, covering it in the article will help readers understand what is going on when they encounter it. Jc3s5h (talk) 01:47, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Got an answer to my first question? HiLo48 (talk) 02:02, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Perhaps the name of the zone that was chosen sounds cooler. That would be a better-than-average reason for a legislature to do something. Jc3s5h (talk) 04:11, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Are you suggesting words are more important than substance to politicians? OK. HiLo48 (talk) 04:22, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

What's the difference between "Permanent daylight saving time" and simply choosing a different time zone for a location?

  • "Permanent daylight saving time" means time does not change twice a year.
  • choosing a different time zone for a location does not forbid to change the time twice a year.

In Europe, the dates for changing time are defined under competency of the European Union, by a directive; while the time zone is decided country by country, as each country has its own sovereignty. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.193.103.68 (talk) 20:32, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

'Permanent daylight saving time' means that time does change again as mentioned. If a place with UTC is given as in 'permanent DST', it should be mentioned as 'UTC+01:00(permanent DST)'. It can be reverted without changing the Standard time. It is used for places in... eg. wartime or other reasons where it can be reverted after the time period of the event. When a different time zone is chosen for a location, the Standard time by itself is changed. This can be done to solve problems such as matching the time zone to the solar time. This change is assumed permanent unless the time zone is changed again whereas the 'permanent' in permanent DST only tells that it is permanent for the whole year and not for all the forthcoming years. There goes the explanation. The Mathlete (talk) 13:36, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Upside-down figures

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It seems intuitively obvious to me that if you have a figure in which, on a vertical axis, up could be "earlier" and down "later" vs. up being "later" and down "earlier", the former is the correct choice. It is baffling that there are two separate charts in this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Greenwich_GB_DaylightChart.png & https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SpringFwd-FallBack.png) that take the latter approach. Apparently, even the people making / modifying these graphics find them confusing, as the Greenwich daylight chart was modifed on 13 Sep 2018 by Invent2HelpAll with the comment "Reoriented to have sun rising in the sky during moringtime as up. Now matches other diagram in DST article." Well, no, it was reoriented to have the sun rising in the sky as -down-, so that now both are wrong instead of just one and the editor was just as confused by this as the rest of us!

On an unrelated topic, I think phrasings about "advancing clocks" and "springing forward" are unclear. It only makes sense if you imagine a clock face (and who really encounters those any more), interpret "clockwise" to mean "forward" or "advancing", and think through it for a bit. I came to this article hoping to remember which one ("springing forward" or "falling back") means you get to have an extra hour of sleep vs. losing an hour of sleep, and between upside down figures and this "springing forward" kind of nonsense I just had to think it through for myself regardless. Ho hum. It might just be that we don't have great options for talking about or illustrating time, but if we do have good options they are not used here. Paalexan (talk) 03:22, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

I guess I am not intuitive enough because I totally would think that up would be later but my brain may only be able to think in mathematical graphs where positive numbers increase going up and to the right. The second chart in that section doesn't use numbers but explains the concept well enough. I've stared at it a bit now and realize that if you read it going down it gets confusing because it seems like you go to sleep, noon happens, and the you wake up. And, yes, it took me a while and I feel stupid because my brain looks at a chart and reads up from the lower left. I would love to hear from other people. Is there some standard we use?
On your other topic, I am going to attempt to fix that for you because I agree that it should be in the article.PopularOutcast talk2me 13:16, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Morocco

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@Oriagh: Thank you for recent contribution. I see that you added Morocco to the permanent daylight savings section (note that the list is not supposed to be comprehensive). The problem is that Morocco is mentioned in another part of the article as abandoning DST during Ramadan. Your edit introduced a conflict and because I cannot read the source (or copy and paste the text into a translator) that your provided, I cannot fix it. Please fix the problem and if you can find a source in English, that would be greatly appreciated. Let me know how I can help. PopularOutcasttalk2me! 00:06, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

The source states three articles: The first says that 60 minutes will be added to the time defined by law in Morocco. The second grants the head of the government the right to cancel the first article when necessary. The third declares that this act will be carried into effect as of Oct 28th, 2018 and will invalidate a previous act concerning the same matter. It did not talk about whether DST will remain during Ramadan, but since it is adopted in winter, I think it is safe to say it is permanent. Oriagh (talk) 13:25, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
Oriagh, thank you. I am going to delete the area in article that talks about Morocco abandoning DST during Ramadan. PopularOutcasttalk2me! 14:08, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

IANA database

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In the IANA time zone database, permanent daylight saving time is considered standard time that has been added by an hour. This statement in the article needs to be clarified. I tried to find places with permanent DST and either I don't understand how the database works or the partial list in that section is incorrect. In any case, Morocco seems to be updated in the database and shows nothing about "added by an hour". There's a column called SAVE that shows 1:00. The offset from GMT remains the same. All daylight saving time, permanent or not, show 1:00 in SAVE column. The only difference seems to be that for permanent DST places there isn't a rule to change back to standard time. Should we delete this line? Thoughts? PopularOutcasttalk2me! 05:32, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

User:Twang clarified it but not sure if user saw this talk page. PopularOutcasttalk2me! 16:10, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
I did not see the discussion. I did look inside IANA's database; there they have two numbers separated by a slash that indicate half-hour offsets (+ or -) relative to a standard time - usually UTC. I read but did not see fit to cite a recent IANA technical communique which described how to do the change for Moracco. (Their site is not transparent.) Twang (talk) 00:48, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Twang, yes, it certainly is difficult to understand. My understanding from https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-how-to.html is that the column you reference is about the formatting of the abbreviation. If there is no accepted abbreviation, they just use offset from Greenwich. What I understand the below to say is that when Morocco time is expressed, it would be expressed as 2018-11-05T23:59:52+01:00.

Zone Africa/Casablanca	-0:30:20 -	LMT	1913 Oct 26
			 0:00	Morocco	+00/+01	1984 Mar 16
			 1:00	-	+01	1986
			 0:00	Morocco	+00/+01	2018 Oct 27
			 1:00	-	+01




I am not sure where half hour offsets come in. But, I've never tried to code this so I may be off. perhaps we should delete the sentence. It doesn't really add very much to information concerning permanent DST.  PopularOutcasttalk2me! 01:21, 6 November 2018 (UTC)


I found this Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data. I'm done; I don't think that factoid is mission-critical for WP ;-) Twang (talk) 01:43, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Twang, Okay, no problem. I am going to delete that sentence. Thanks so much for taking the time.  PopularOutcasttalk2me! 01:52, 6 November 2018 (UTC)


Grammar
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"Daylight savings time" is grammatically incorrect and should not be used. The time is saving daylight. It's a daylight-saving time. The inclusion of "savings" in the Wikipedia article is one of the reasons Wikipedia should not be used as a reference as it allows wrong information. Have yourselves a wonderful day, everyone.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danda Panda (talk • contribs) 02:12, 19 December 2018 (UTC)



"Daylight savings time" is not grammatically incorrect (precisely what rule of English grammar are you suggesting it breaks?).   However, it is not the official name of the policy. That is why this article uses the correct name Daylight saving time throughout, except in the portion (Terminology) that discusses the very common usage of the incorrect term, and the fact that it is incorrect.  Perhaps you ought to come down from your high horse and actually read the article. General Ization Talk   02:19, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

While the blanket statement about Wikipedia might have been gratuitous, it is in fact grammatically incorrect. When you use a compound adjective, the nouns in it are supposed to be singular. But in this case, if you read the first two words as nouns as a compound modifier for "time" (daylight-savings time), it makes no sense since they're both nouns and the latter is plural. If you read the first word as a modifier for the latter two (daylight savings time), "savings time" doesn't make any sense on its own (are you putting time away into "savings"?). The only possible grammatically correct reading of it is where the second word is not a noun, but a verb together with the first word (noun) as a compound modifier for the last word. In order to do that, you'd have to conjugate it appropriately, and that would result in daylight-saving time which could be reduced to daylight saving time. We should probably add a "incorrectly" in the lead section when it mentions "daylight savings time" as a variant. Getsnoopy (talk) 11:33, 1 April 2019 (UTC)


Other meanings of DST
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There are other meanings of DST. Well, at least one: Dedicated Service Tools on the IBM i platform/OS, rather roughly equivalent to BIOS settings in the PC-world. Unfortunately, there's no existing article regarding that topic. --Poc (talk) 22:05, 30 December 2018 (UTC)



See DST (disambiguation). General Ization Talk   22:07, 30 December 2018 (UTC)





Brazil not showing on map? Or did they abolish it too? :)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.84.55.169 (talk) 00:12, 14 April 2019 (UTC) 



I think Senegal, Algeria and Libya are using permanent daylight saving time
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I recently noticed that Senegal, Algeria and Libya are using permanent daylight saving because I noticed on the timeanddate app that solar noon is after 1PM and they are more than 45 minutes ahead of physical time. Scientist boy 5 (talk) 12:29, 26 June 2019 (UTC)



According to the current "africa" file in the tip of the master branch of the tzdb repository:


  • Senegal follows the same rules as the Ivory Coast, which currently is keeping UTC, with no DST rules;
    • 

  • Algeria is currently 1 hour east of UTC, with no DST rules;
    • 

  • Libya is currently 2 hours east of UTC, with no DST rules.


No citations are given in the "africa" file for Senegal.  For Algeria, it has the comment


   # Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 
   # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
   # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
   # Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.



and for Libya, it has the comment


   # From Even Scharning (2012-11-10):
   # Libya set their time one hour back at 02:00 on Saturday November 10.
   # https://www.libyaherald.com/2012/11/04/clocks-to-go-back-an-hour-on-saturday/
   # Here is an official source [in Arabic]: http://ls.ly/fb6Yc  
   # 
   # Steffen Thorsen forwarded a translation (2012-11-10) in
   # https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018451.html
   # 
   # From Tim Parenti (2012-11-11):
   # Treat the 2012-11-10 change as a zone change from UTC+2 to UTC+1.
   # The DST rules planned for 2013 and onward roughly mirror those of Europe
   # (either two days before them or five days after them, so as to fall on
   # lastFri instead of lastSun).
   
   # From Even Scharning (2013-10-25):
   # The scheduled end of DST in Libya on Friday, October 25, 2013 was
   # cancelled yesterday....
   # https://www.libyaherald.com/2013/10/24/correction-no-time-change-tomorrow/
   # 
   # From Paul Eggert (2013-10-25):
   # For now, assume they're reverting to the pre-2012 rules of permanent UT +02.



If you have any better citations, such as official government announcements, please let us know. Guy Harris (talk) 01:18, 26 June 2019 (UTC)


Yes, according to the file it seems that these three are not changing times throughout the year, but according to what you quoted what I infer is that they are permanent standard time. Like Guy Harris said, we would need some sort of documentation that their time zone is permanent DST. Just a quick look at timeanddate.com for Algeria suggests that they are on permanent standard time. Is this site considered a reliable source? According to our own time zone article, Algeria and Senegal do not use DST. Libya is not mentioned, but that article lacks citations for the different countries. Also, welcome! Glad to have a new editor on board. FYI: I reverted your earlier edit and noticed that you have been doing the same thing in other articles. Generally don't link common locations, see MOS:OL and MOS:COMMONWORDS; really don't link anything that doesn't add to the understanding of the article topic. PopularOutcasttalk2me! 03:09, 26 June 2019 (UTC)


Senegal: this document, although not an official government decree, says:


Senegal is in the GMT time zone. When it is 12 noon in Senegal, It is 1pm in France during winter and 2pm during summer


on page 30; that suggests that, unlike France, Senegal does not adjust clocks during the summer. Guy Harris (talk) 07:10, 26 June 2019 (UTC)


Would "turn clocks forward in the spring ... and turn clocks backward in autumn" work better?
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"Advance" and "retard", when referring to clocks, might be somewhat obscure terms; people might be more familiar with "turning clocks forward" and "turning clocks back".  That might also avoid people "fixing" the word "retard" because they're only familiar with the derogatory term for people with intellectual disability. Guy Harris (talk) 02:31, 26 November 2019 (UTC)



I'm OK with either usage. I don't know what has been discussed here before, but the recent attempt to replace "retard" with "retreat" is simply not correct. One does not retreat a clock. Meters (talk) 03:23, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


People have, on a number of occasions, "fixed" the use of "retard", unaware that it's the correct word.  That might be an indication that, whilst it's correct, it's also unfamiliar to many readers. Guy Harris (talk) 07:29, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

I fully understand that. It 's not something I would often use, but at least I recognize it as correct. I'm perfectly fine with replacing it with something less prone to causing problems, or if we keep "retard" then we can add an inline comment. Meters (talk) 07:48, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


Yes, "retard" is a problematic word to use today in regard to clocks, being both archaic, and having a an awkward, better known meaning. But "turning clocks forward" or "...backward" is also somewhat archaic. "Turning" has no direct or literal relevance to digital timepieces. Would the verb "set" be more useful? E.g. "set the clock forward one hour"? HiLo48 (talk) 10:32, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I think "set the clock forward/back" is indeed the term we're looking for, in that it will be more universally understood than retard. Rosbif73 (talk) 11:11, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

'Set' the clock forward/back is better than 'turn', as in ex-army "On my mark, set your watches to .... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 SET!". To me, personally, I associate advance and retard with regulation, speeding up or slowing down the clock itself so that it keeps accurate time using the advance/retard mechanism or adjusting the pendulum. Ex nihil (talk) : Ex nihil (talk) 12:58, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


"Set the clock {forward, back}" sounds good to me. Guy Harris (talk) 19:12, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


No Ambiguous Color Codes
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I see that a color in the color code below the map means “formerly or permanently Daylight Saving Time.” Colors on a map should not mean more than one different thing. That can confuse people. Does Wikipedia not have enough room for more colors in a color code for any map? Cbsteffen (talk) 23:09, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

The map should really only show 3 things:
- countries that do it
- countries that don't anymore
- and countries that never did

Trying to put 'permanent DST' on the map is too complex - how do you define specifically who is on permanent DST? As this article shows, there are MANY places in the world who are ahead of their time zone. They are all in some way on permanent DST.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/02/how-wrong-is-your-time-zone-map-shows-how-far-world-clocks-are-from-solar-time.html
Please restore the old map until this is resolved.
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Yukon
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In the map in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DST_Countries_Map.png, why Yukon's color is "formerly used daylight savings"? Isn't Yukon using daylight saving time all year (i.e. on PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) all year)? Should we have any special colors for year-round DST? 139.228.164.4 (talk) 13:08, 11 March 2020 (UTC)



Good point. Simplest solution might be to retitle as "locations that change clocks biannually between DST and standard time" (or simply "locations that change clocks biannually"). That or add another color for locations on permanent DST; technically Yukon, Saskatchewan, Spain, and Saratov are on pDST.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiWikiHigh (talk • contribs) 15:13, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


Is "Permanent Daylight Saving" really daylight saving?
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There is really no such thing. According to https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/daylight-saving the definition of daylight saving is "the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it BACK by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening"

So it's a seasonal clock-change. Once you make it permanent, you lose the benefit, and it's no longer DST, it's your new Standard Time. 

Many places are ahead of (or behind) their geographic time zone, like Xinjiang in China, and it's not called permanent DST.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.84.24.164 (talk • contribs) 09:05, 7 March 2020 (UTC)



For the most part, time is controlled by laws, not dictionaries. Conceivably, a national law might assign a state or province to a particular time zone, but give the subsidiary government the authority to choose the dates when standard or daylight saving time will be observed. So the subsidiary government could opt to observe daylight saving all year long, effectively moving their time zone, but without defying the national law. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:14, 11 March 2020 (UTC)


It's possible, but you would have to dig deep into research and find out whether every region (a)changed their legal time zone or (b)kept their time zone but extended the daylight saving period. The end result would be the same for all practical purposes anyway - a permanent change of time zone and abolishing the clock-change.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.84.24.164 (talk) 04:26, 13 March 2020 (UTC)


Yes, permanent daylight saving time is the permanent (as opposed to seasonal) observation of daylight saving time. DST is not the change of time, but rather it is a time itself, it is a time arbitrarily advanced from standard time for cosmetic purposes. Oxford defines DST as "A method of securing longer evening daylight during the summer by setting the clocks ahead of standard time, typically by one hour; the period during which this is in force." Merriam-Webster describe DST as "time usually one hour ahead of standard time".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiWikiHigh (talk • contribs) 15:19, 24 April 2020 (UTC)


"(formerly in Brazil, etc.)"
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The former arrangement of having Summer Time in some Brazilian States and not in others may have been requested by the State jurisdictions; but it was Decreed by the National President (reference already cited in the Article) 94.30.84.71 (talk) 20:51, 8 July 2020 (UTC)



is daylight saving time off?
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I was my understanding that this was created to keep the seasons in line with our calender and to adjust the time of day to get more farming time.  since now all our seasons are coming late should we make a adjustment? if so how could that affect our norm? say -- oh by the way your birthday is next month.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jesse1620 (talk • contribs) 02:55, 30 July 2020 (UTC) 



This page is for discussing improvements to the article Daylight saving time here at Wikipedia, not for discussion of the topic in general.  If an "adjustment" is made, it will be reflected in this article, but we are not going to discuss the need (or lack) for such a change here. General Ization Talk   03:02, 30 July 2020 (UTC)


As User:General Ization writes, this talk page is not about whether adjustments should be made, it's about improving the article. If you read the article, you will notice it does not mention keeping the seasons in line with our calendar. That's because daylight saving time has nothing to do with keeping the seasons in line with the calendar. That's covered in calendar-related articles, such as Gregorian calendar. Jc3s5h (talk) 03:39, 30 July 2020 (UTC)


I don't think this article meets the FA criteria
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We've got substantial issues with this one here.  It's not compliant with WP:LEADCITE.  There's significant uncited text.  The bit about it and Windows is rather out of date.  Additionally, it does seem like a lot of that Windows section is undue weight: it's about half of the computing section, and there's not much information about other operating systems, so I'm not even entirely sure why there's that much information about it.  Most of the computing section itself is actually out of date.  For instance, the passage "Older or stripped-down systems may support only the TZ values required by POSIX, which specify at most one start and end rule explicitly in the value. For example, TZ='EST5EDT,M3.2.0/02:00,M11.1.0/02:00' specifies time for the eastern United States starting in 2007. Such a TZ value must be changed whenever DST rules change, and the new value applies to all years, mishandling some older timestamps." not only refers to something in 2007 and kinda in the future tense, but it's also sourced to something from 2004.  Surely something has changed since 2007.  It's completely unclear what the citation to "May 1965, Minnesota Mayhem." is referring to.  A lot of the books cited are missing page numbers.  And that's only from a quick look.  This isn't meeting the FA standards right now. Hog Farm  Bacon 18:04, 9 November 2020 (UTC)



Hog Farm, the amazing editor who originally wrote this article is long gone, and all of his FAs have fallen into disrepair-- in its day, this was quite an undertaking, and I doubt that anyone can restore this to the standard Eubulides brought it over a decade ago.  Since the prose size is now more than TWICE what Eubulides wrote,[1] there is likely to be lots of cruft, and FARC is likely.  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  18:10, 9 November 2020 (UTC)


talk page
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There are some interesting prior discussions which have been archived and are no longer visible here. Why are some older discussions showing above but newer ones are not showing? If the discussions disappear people will just ask the same questions again. The talk page is not that big, people should be able to click onto it and see the discussions without them being deleted/archived. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.203.75.31 (talk)  04:12, 16 February 2021 (UTC)



"Why are some older discussions showing above" Because the archiver missed them, for some reason.  Somebody helpfully manually archived them.


"The talk page is not that big" That's because a lot of it has been, err, umm, archived.  Go look at all of the archive pages - there's a lot of stuff there, the page might end up being "that big" if it were all restored from the archive.


"people will just ask the same questions again" That's not necessarily a bad thing, if the page, reality, or both have changed sufficiently since the last time the question was asked, making the current answer different. Guy Harris (talk) 03:30, 21 February 2021 (UTC)


Chinese Language Setting.
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At the left-hand side of the page there are URLs for languages other than English, and at the bottom of the list is "中文" which means Zhōngwén or Chinese language.

The "Language settings" button at the top of the list says this means, in this context, 中文大陆， Zhōngwén Dàlù, literally “Continental Chinese." Clicking through, however, gets a perfectly reasonable translation but in the traditional characters used today in Taiwan, Singapore, and many overseas communities. It was "Continental Chinese" on the continent up until the nineteen sixties, but is no longer so.

Editing this is beyond my competence. Could somebody perhaps change the "中文" at the bottom of the list of languages to "中文繁體"? This is  Zhōngwén fántǐ or traditional form of Chinese, as opposed to simplified form, 簡體|简体 jian3 ti3, and would be both accurate and politically neutral.

For the coming period, the ideal solution will be to have two Chinese entries, "中文简体" and "中文繁體." This is how the Chinese edition of the New York Times, for instance, is sold to subscribers and is very common throughout Wikipedia. This will be very slightly incorrect for residents of Hong Kong, Singapore and a diminishing number of overseas Chinese communities, but each of these has made its own mental accommodations to the problem.

FWIW, the Mainland does not currently use, uh, Summer Time, but the entire country is something like eighty or ninety degrees of longitude wide, so at some point, they're going to have to do something about the whole question, I would guess. Our problem here is merely that of labelling the orthographic output accurately.

David Lloyd-Jones (talk) 13:44, 14 March 2021 (UTC)



Arizona and Navajo time
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The article mentions the fact that Arizona does not observe DST, but fails to note that native Americans (Navajo Indians) follow the national practice instead. This is correctly noted in related pages such as DST in the United States however. --Brian Josephson (talk) 17:32, 13 March 2021 (UTC)



Having figured out a suitable wording, I've now made the amendment myself.--Brian Josephson (talk) 09:15, 15 March 2021 (UTC)


Not sure about that...
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It said "British resident William Willett presented the idea as a way to save energy. Despite receiving some serious consideration, it was never implemented." - Isn't it implemented right now in Britain? Since 1923 or so? That means it was done but a bit later only. Or am I getting this wrong? Kind regards, 2001:56A:FA12:D300:CD96:A764:FA05:897F (talk) 14:52, 19 January 2022 (UTC)



"Jordan is currently the only country to switch to daylight saving time before the end of winter."
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This is nonsense. Most of North America uses DST, and switches over to it on the second Sunday of every March. Needless to say, this is before March 20 or March 21, the only possible dates for the arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Also, this person's reference says Jordan switches to DST in October. Ouf. 184.147.89.192 (talk) 22:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)



I agree, and have removed the incorrect passage. Jc3s5h (talk) 23:13, 7 March 2022 (UTC)


Ambiguous Local Time
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I came to this article to find out how local time is disambiguated.
When we "spring back" for example at 2:00AM, we reset clocks to 1:00AM, how do you refer to the first 1:15AM as opposed to the second 1:15AM? 
I don't see any mention of this problem or its solution here.

I would prefer if someone more knowledgeable makes this change. I noticed that individual computer languages have done their own contributions to this issue. For example https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0495/ refers to the two repeated hours as "folds."

Arif Zaman (talk) 11:09, 14 July 2021 (UTC)



I think you would refer to one of them as 1:15AM Local Daylight Savings Time, for example Mountain Standard time (MST) and Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Regards, 2001:56A:FA12:D300:CD96:A764:FA05:897F (talk) 14:55, 19 January 2022 (UTC)


There is no "Spring back" thing but "Fall back" instead... "Spring foward" (from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time, +1 hour) and "Fall back" (from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time, - 1 hour).—AnnaBruta (talk) 12:45, 15 June 2022 (UTC)


Antarctica
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The first illustration on the page doesn't include Antarctica as currently observing DST, but since all flight come from Christchurch New Zealand via McMurdo base every settlement on Antarctica uses New Zealand time (UTC+12 standard, UTC+13 DST). Also in the past it once was designated it's own time zone (Antarctica/South_Pole), but that has fallen out of practice now with all current organizations officially using the Pacific/Auckland time zone designation. I only bring this up because I was asked about time zones in the South Pole myself and did not know (being it technically has six months of night followed by six months of day) and when I turned to this page for information on that time zone it was unclear. Maybe someone could edit this page to include this info, perhaps add a small subsection? At the very least it is an interesting fact to know. 209.160.133.10 (talk) 19:14, 28 September 2022 (UTC)



A proposal to eliminate DST has been presented to the Mexican Senate
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Sorry, I only have news in Spanish, but it seems relevant: https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/Camara-de-Diputados-aprueba-eliminar-el-Horario-de-Verano-en-Mexico-pasa-al-Senado-20220929-0049.html Not A Superhero (talk) 14:58, 30 September 2022 (UTC)



US permanently om DST?
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Didn't the US pass a law to permanently be on DST?  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 22:23, 3 November 2022 (UTC)



No, the Sunshine Protection Act was passed by the Senate, but has not been voted on by the House of Representatives. Guy Harris (talk) 23:03, 3 November 2022 (UTC)


Thanks.  I don't want DST to be permanent.  I want "real time" to be permanent.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 23:13, 3 November 2022 (UTC)


Hyphen
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The article's title should be Daylight-saving time. Gcjnst (talk) 20:24, 4 November 2022 (UTC)



How often is it referred to as "daylight-saving time" and how often is it referred to as "daylight saving time"? Guy Harris (talk) 21:11, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


DST fewer crime incidents
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"DST likely reduces some kinds of crime, such as robbery and sexual assault, as fewer potential victims are outdoors after dusk."
There is a way that this can be rephrased to center the perpetrators instead of "potential victims". How can it be rephrased?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.248.74.197 (talk) 00:17, 8 November 2022 (UTC) 



Benjamin Franklin
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I am not happy with this paragraph (and the shorter passage in the lede):

Benjamin Franklin published the proverb "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," and published a letter in the Journal de Paris during his time as an American envoy to France (1776–1785) suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing window shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST; 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this changed as rail transport and communication networks required a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.

There are three reasons I would wish to delete this entirely (and also the mention in the lede).

1. The penultimate sentence says "Despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST". So why refer to Franklin at all?

2. The first sentence - Benjamin Franklin published the proverb "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," appears to suggest (I appreciate that, in terms, it doesn't) that this saying was first published by Franklin. In fact, it appeared in exactly the same words, and as an established saying, in John Clarke's 1639 book Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina in usum scholarum concinnata. It takes some searching to find it, but the starting point is here: [2]https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A18943.0001.001 It's worth going into the book for the other 17th-century sayings.

3. There has been no suggestion so far that Franklin's 1784 satirical letter influenced any of the subsequent proposals for DST at all. If there was anything to support the concept of a seminal Franklin idea, I'd be happy to leave some reference to Franklin in place. There are two references to Franklin's place in DST. One is the 2006 piece on historynet.com, saying "A third original invention of Franklin’s is daylight saving time", while the other is the Franklin Institute saying the contrary ("Daylight saving time is one thing that Franklin did not invent"): [3]https://www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin/daylight-savings-time. In both cases it is clear that what Franklin actually suggested was that people should get up earlier, and he made no suggestion at all that they should change their clocks: he was in fact aiming his barb at those late-rising members of the Ancien Régime who stayed in bed until noon. I'd much prefer to align Wikipedia with the Franklin Institute and leave his name out of this article.  Thomas Peardew (talk) 10:15, 8 November 2022 (UTC)



Agree.  The Franklin Institute disavows this claim, the citations do not support it, and the Wiki article on Benjamin Franklin omits mentioning it at all. Consequently, I would support the removal of all mention in the lede and either delete in History or a brief append to the US adoption in History section disconnecting this from Franklin. The Despite common misconception... seems confined to the USA, but if this really a significant issue, then a citation needs to refer to the misconception and demonstrate that it is significant, if none available, remove mention in toto. Whatever, align with the Franklin Institute and the Wiki article at the very least. Ex nihil (talk) 12:00, 8 November 2022 (UTC)


Daylight savings time is used so children can play sports in the afternoon with more sunlight
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6 weeks of incorrect claims. There's no point in continuing this







People wake up earlier in the winter so children have more time playing outside, and participating in sports after school, while the sun is still out. It's not about saving candles at all. 2601:647:4000:12E0:6C2F:967C:983A:AB19 (talk) 02:39, 28 October 2022 (UTC)



The article doesn't propose that the purpose of DST (now) is to save candles.  Did you actually read the article?  Do you think Benjamin Franklin proposed DST in 1784 so kids would have more time on the soccer field?  General Ization Talk   02:47, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Yes, the main purpose of Daylight Savings Time is so that kids have more time playing outside after school, and it's not known to be started by Benjamin Franklin either. 2601:647:4000:12E0:6C2F:967C:983A:AB19 (talk) 02:54, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Read the article. General Ization Talk   02:55, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

The information is not right. 2601:647:4000:12E0:6C2F:967C:983A:AB19 (talk) 02:56, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

OK. Unless you would like to propose one or more specific changes and provide published, reliable sources to support them, we are done here. General Ization Talk   02:58, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Did people forget that Daylight Savings Time is so that children have more daylight hours to play outside after school? 2601:647:4000:12E0:6C2F:967C:983A:AB19 (talk) 03:01, 28 October 2022 (UTC)




No. you can't forget something that isn't true. Guy Harris (talk) 05:30, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

OP I think you might be mistaken here: that's one of the reasons US school days start so early, has nothing to do with daylight savings time. There's an entire article discussing the pushback. 155.188.123.58 (talk) 23:38, 8 November 2022 (UTC)



9 years ago in 2014, it used to be that the clock gets set forward one hour for winter, so 9AM summer time becomes 10AM winter time, though now, it's 9AM summer time becomes 8AM winter time. So now, when it's winter, and it's 3PM outside, it's 4PM summer time, instead of 2PM summer time. When it's gets to spring, the clock used to set backward one hour, so 9AM winter time becomes 8AM summer time.


Also, many students go to school early elsewhere in the world as well, like Russia and China, which start their day at 7:30AM to 8AM. 2601:647:4000:12E0:857E:6299:5FDA:655F (talk) 17:13, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Back in October 2022, the clock where I'm living got set forward one hour for winter, so nothing changed here from the way it was "9 years ago in 2014". If they're now turning the clock backward in winter where you are, go ask the people responsible for that why they're doing that. Guy Harris (talk) 20:34, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

What country are you living in? 2601:647:4000:12E0:4080:57E2:82F1:8E56 (talk) 03:26, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, I got it backwards - but so did the previous commentator (whose IP address is geolocated as being in the same city as the one your IP address is geolocated as being in; if you know the previous commentator, you might want to inform them that the clock wasn't set forward in winter in 2014), when they said "9 years ago in 2014, it used to be that the clock gets set forward one hour for winter, so 9AM summer time becomes 10AM winter time".  It's never been the case that clocks ware turned forward in the winter. Guy Harris (talk) 05:56, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Clocks were turned forward for the winter, which is how students can play outside at 3PM winter time, which is 2PM summer time, instead of 4PM summer time. 2601:647:4000:12E0:8852:CD02:F226:FD38 (talk) 01:17, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

What I see is a whole lotta talking past one another here. What you just said is, I believe, the opposite of the way DST works.  The memory aid for those of us here in the northern hemisphere, at least in the US, is "Spring forward, Fall back". At the beginning of DST (in the Spring), clocks are moved forward to the following hour. Clicks are turned back to the preceding hour when DST ends in the Fall. This means effectively that after DST has ended in a given year and before it starts again the following year, the light available at 3 pm per the clock is approximately the light that would be available at 2 4 pm DST. General Ization Talk   01:29, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

The clock is moved forward for the winter, so that the sunlight at 4PM winter time, is that of 3PM summer time, and not 5PM summer time. Sun sets earlier in the winter. 2601:647:4000:12E0:8852:CD02:F226:FD38 (talk) 01:30, 5 December 2022 (UTC)




"The clock is moved forward for the winter" is using "is moved forward" in a fashion other than "is turned from its current time to a later time".  If, for example, the clock is at 2:00, it is turned from 2:00 to 1:00 for "winter time" and from 2:00 to 3:00 for "summer time".  Note that "winter time" may begin at some time in the autumn/fall and end at some time in the spring, and "summer time" may begin at some time in the spring and end at some time in the autumn/fall.  I use "winter time" and "summer time" to avoid terminological issues, e.g. locations that use "summer time" rather than "daylight saving time" and locations that observe "standard time" during what is usually called "summer time" or "daylight saving time" rather than what is usually called "standard time".

That was true in 2014 and is true now.  It has never been the case, in any location that the clock was changed from 2:00 to 3:00 in the summer. Guy Harris (talk) 06:16, 5 December 2022 (UTC)



The sun sets earlier in the winter, so to prepare for winter, the clock is set forward from 9AM to 10AM in the Fall. This way, when it's 5PM winter time, it's actually 4PM summer time. Sometime in the past eight years, it became that the clock was set backward for the winter, so that 5PM during winter becomes 6PM during summer. 2601:647:4000:12E0:FC76:FC0C:D3C2:922A (talk) 03:36, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

"The sun sets earlier in the winter" True.


"so to prepare for winter, the clock is set forward from 9AM to 10AM in the Fall" False.  It has never been the case that the clock is advanced by one hour in the winter (and it doesn't happen at 9AM, it normally happens earlier in the morning on the day that the time change is done).


"This way, when it's 5PM winter time, it's actually 4PM summer time" False.  If you have two locations in the same time zone, with one observing DST and one not observing DST (such as US states in the Mountain Time Zone other than Arizona, or the Navajo Nation, vs. Arizona), if, during DST, it's 4PM in the part that observes DST, it's 3PM in the part that doesn't observe DST.


"Sometime in the past eight years, it became that the clock was set backward for the winter, so that 5PM during winter becomes 6PM during summer." False.  There was no such change ever; it's always been the case that the clock was set backward in the winter.


For the United States, for example, here's Public Law 89-387, the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which states that


During the period commencing at 2 o'clock antemeridian on the last Sunday in April of each year and ending at 2 o'clock on the last Sunday in October of each year, the standard time of each zone established by the Act of March 19, 1918 (15 U.S.C. 261-264), as modified by the Act of March 4, 1921 (15 U.S.C. 265), shall be advanced one hour...


so the clocks are turned forward in spring and backward in autumn/fall; the only changes since 1966, which is 56 years ago, have been to the start and end dates of daylight saving time.


So either you know that's true, in which case you're trolling, or you genuinely believe what yu're saying, in which case you're confused.  Regardless of which is the case, all further claims on your part that clocks were ever turned forward in autumn/fall will, quite appropriately, be rejected as nonsense and ignored, and all changes to Wikipedia articles that incorporate the notion of clockes being turned forward will, quite appropriately, be reverted. Guy Harris (talk) 06:24, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

The clocks are advanced forward one hour for winter, and advanced backward one hour for summer. So to prepare for winter, 9AM becomes 10AM, and the sunlight at 6PM Winter time is the amount of sunlight at 5PM Summer time, because the sun sets earlier during winter. It has been like that more than eight years ago, at least. 2601:647:4000:12E0:7C48:FC8:69A8:F6E (talk) 05:06, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

No, as we have already told you, that is not what the clocks do. There's no point in continuing this, I'm collapsing the thread. Meters (talk) 06:07, 15 December 2022 (UTC)











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