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Is there any advantage of doing this daylight time saving thing?

It is to save power, energy. In simple words, the Sun rises almost an hour earlier in Summer, and sets one hour early too. Due to this, that extra hour is wasted if we don't utilize it. That extra hour is daylight, natural sunlight, which in turn we consume the extra hour in the evening as the Sun sets early so 1 extra hour of electricity. That is why countries that follow DST forward their clocks an hour ahead in Summer, to synchronize with the Sun or the daylight, so that we wake up early, sleep early, and less electricity is consumed, and extra daylight for the evenings (when there is more activity compared to early mornings).

Just like in India, because of the vast area and only 1 timezone, the sun rises as early as 4am in Assam and other Eastern states, whereas as late as 6 or 6.30 in Mumbai. Those extra 2 hours are wasted in the Eastern states because they follow the standard IST time to start work. In this manner, daylight is wasted and there is need of either DST or multiple timezones.

DP-NiSh wrote:It is to save power, energy. In simple words, the Sun rises almost an hour earlier in Summer, and sets one hour early too. Due to this, that extra hour is wasted if we don't utilize it. That extra hour is daylight, natural sunlight, which in turn we consume the extra hour in the evening as the Sun sets early so 1 extra hour of electricity. That is why countries that follow DST forward their clocks an hour ahead in Summer, to synchronize with the Sun or the daylight, so that we wake up early, sleep early, and less electricity is consumed, and extra daylight for the evenings (when there is more activity compared to early mornings).

Just like in India, because of the vast area and only 1 timezone, the sun rises as early as 4am in Assam and other Eastern states, whereas as late as 6 or 6.30 in Mumbai. Those extra 2 hours are wasted in the Eastern states because they follow the standard IST time to start work. In this manner, daylight is wasted and there is need of either DST or multiple timezones.

Oh, thanks a lot for the details but its too hard to wake up early in the morning in summer season (for college).
Well, how many countries follow this DST system?

Almost all I guess.....Though a question

LOL, you need DST on PC for the system time.. And adyniz, the countries that never followed, had followed and are following DST are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_s ... _the_world

Thanks again for this.
India had DST once?
When?

lol DST was on so I wasconfused if my system time is wrong or its time to use specs

I always get confused when this happens.
The half clocks of my house are on new time and half on old time.
Too lazy to change them LOL.

lol add both times and divide by two.... Sine both are in same amount

adyniz wrote:I always get confused when this happens.
The half clocks of my house are on new time and half on old time.
Too lazy to change them LOL.

Same here.

Exactly.
It is so frustrating, who have time to reset the clocks.

Time has the time.....

Lol is this SST period?