Q: how does daylight saving time actually work?
A: during the spring and summer months, the clock tells you a later time than it actually is. so it makes the evening seem a little lighter and the morning a little darker. this is besides the fact that the evening and morning are both already lighter than they were in the winter, but because of daylight saving, the evening is WAY more lighter, and the morning is ..... only a little bit lighter. it shifts the daylight later by 1 hour. in the springtime, when it changes, you will always hear people saying 'wow i can't believe it's still light at this time of evening', and in the fall when it switches back, you will hear people saying, 'wow i can't believe it's already dark at this time of evening.' However, what you may not hear, but is still said, is similar but reversed comments about the morning. But with a different twist, because it goes in the opposite direction of the way it's been heading. so, for example, in the springtime in the morning, after it changes, people in the early morning will be saying 'well, the mornings have been gradually getting lighter these past few weeks, but they just suddenly got darker again, although i know they are still going to gradually get ligher from here.' and in the fall, in the morning, just after it changes back, people in the early morning will say 'well, the mornings have been getting gradually darker over the past few weeks, but suddenly they just got brighter again, although i know they still will continue to get darker from here.'