Question: What is the tilt of the Earth that causes solar time to change called?
Answer: axial tilt

Question: How much earlier do people's routines happen because of daylight savings?
Answer: one hour

Question: In which season is the policy of setting clocks ahead least practical?
Answer: winter

Question: Does setting the clocks ahead add an hour of daylight before or after the normal workday?
Answer: after

Question: What is the schedule of time called when it is not daylight savings time?
Answer: Standard Time

Question: What two sources of energy use do DST proponents say are reduced by the time change?
Answer: lighting and heating

Question: What word describes the approximate rates at which sunset and sunrise change with the seasons?
Answer: equal

Question: Do those who favor DST say people would rather have an extra hour of daylight before or after their usual workday?
Answer: after

Question: Is it the supporters or opponents of Daylight Saving Time who say it significantly reduces energy use?
Answer: Supporters

Question: What latitudes see more extreme changes in the length of their days and nights throughout the year?
Answer: higher latitudes

Question: What region of the earth sees little change in daylight from season to season?
Answer: near the equator

Question: How much impact does the times of daylight and night have on areas like Iceland or Alaska?
Answer: little

Question: Would observing Daylight Saving Time have a small or large effect on how light it is during the workday in areas at high latitudes?
Answer: small

Question: As compared to areas with lower latitudes, what kind of change do areas with high latitudes see in the length of day through the seasons?
Answer: extreme

Question: What kind of clocks did the Romans use?
Answer: water clocks

Question: What did the Romans call the third hour before sunrise?
Answer: hora tertia

Question: During the summer solstice, for how many minutes did hora tertia last for the Romans?
Answer: 75

Question: What type of religious ceremonies are still observed according to the traditional, unequal time settings?
Answer: Jewish

Question: Who first published the proverb about waking up early and going to bed early to be "healthy, wealthy, and wise"?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: Which group of people did Franklin say would save candles by waking up earlier?
Answer: Parisians

Question: In what year did Ben Franklin write a satire suggesting firing cannons at sunrise to wake people up?
Answer: 1784

Question: What kind of transportation network helped encourage keeping more exact schedules?
Answer: rail

Question: In addition to cannon fire, what did Franklin suggest to act as Parisians' alarm clock?
Answer: ringing church bells

Question: What particular kind of scientist was George Hudson?
Answer: entomologist

Question: What did George Hudson spend time collecting when he wasn't working?
Answer: insects

Question: What year did Hudson first present his two-hour daylight saving theory to the Wellington Philosophical Society?
Answer: 1895

Question: Some people believe it wasn't Hudson who created DST, but an Englishman by what name?
Answer: William Willett

Question: Who was the member of Parliament who brought a bill about Daylight Saving Time to the House of Commons in 1908?
Answer: Robert Pearce

Question: What year did Germany decide to try DST?
Answer: 1916

Question: What is the German word for Daylight Saving Time?
Answer: Sommerzeit

Question: What natural resource were Germany and Austria-Hungary trying to conserve by using DST?
Answer: coal

Question: What year did the United States get on board with DST?
Answer: 1918

Question: What event in the 1970s led more regions of North America to use DST?
Answer: energy crisis

Question: What country joined Canada, the UK, and Ireland in continuing to observe Daylight Saving Time after the war?
Answer: Ireland

Question: Daylight Saving Time was used commonly during what war?
Answer: Second World War

Question: Along with North America, what continent was affected heavily by the 1970s energy crisis?
Answer: Europe

Question: Has the world seen many or few changes in the observation of DST?
Answer: many

Question: Countries might change their DST policy by enactments, adjustments, and what other type of policy changes?
Answer: repeals

Question: At what local time does the United States change the time?
Answer: 02:00

Question: Technically, how many hours does the day the time change happens have in the spring?
Answer: 23

Question: In the fall, DST means one hour is repeated, which means the day is actually how many hours long?
Answer: 25

Question: At the time change to DST, what will a digital clock read just after 01:59:59.9?
Answer: 03:00:00.0

Question: Daylight Saving Time is sometimes called summer time, but the clocks are actually moved forward in which season?
Answer: spring

Question: During what part of the week is the time change most often scheduled?
Answer: weekend

Question: What do we avoid disrupting by doing the time shift during days most people don't work?
Answer: weekday schedules

Question: Which time zone in Europe always has a one-hour lead on Central European Time?
Answer: Eastern European Time

Question: For one hour each spring, how far ahead of Pacific Time is Mountain Time in the United States?
Answer: two hours

Question: In 2008, what month and day did Western Australia change their clocks?
Answer: October 26

Question: At DST in the fall, how long does it stay the same time in both Pacific and Mountain time in the United States?
Answer: one hour

Question: In addition to much of the state of Arizona, what U.S. state does not ever change their clocks for DST?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: What year did the European Union standardize their Summer Time?
Answer: 1996

Question: European Summer Time begins in March and ends in what month?
Answer: October

Question: What act in the U.S. brought about the 2007 change in DST policy?
Answer: the Energy Policy Act of 2005

Question: What government body is allowed to change the DST policy in the United States back to the dates observed from 1987 to 2006?
Answer: Congress

Question: Supporters of the November end to DST name what U.S. holiday as the justification for keeping the change through the end of October?
Answer: Halloween

Question: In the southern hemisphere, what aspect of DST is about the reverse of that of the northern hemisphere?
Answer: Beginning and ending dates

Question: At what local time does Chile change their clocks for DST?
Answer: 24:00

Question: What day of the week does DST begin and end in Chile?
Answer: Saturday

Question: In the Northern hemisphere's summer, what is the time difference between the UK and Chile?
Answer: five hours

Question: During what season in the Southern hemisphere is there a three-hour time difference between mainland Chile and the United Kingdom?
Answer: summer

Question: Which part of Brazil observes Daylight Saving Time?
Answer: southern Brazil

Question: What part of Brazil does not observe DST?
Answer: equatorial Brazil

Question: Which two continents that comprise a majority of the population worldwide don't observe DST?
Answer: Asia and Africa

Question: The lack of fluctuation in time for what daily event means regions of the world near the equator don't usually keep DST?
Answer: sunrise

Question: What leader said daylight saving gives people more "opportunities for the pursuit of health and happiness"?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: What nickname have people in opposition to DST given it?
Answer: Daylight Slaving Time

Question: In addition to the evening entertainment industry, people from what industry often oppose daylight saving?
Answer: agricultural

Question: Traditionally, retailing, tourism, and what other industry have been in favor of DST?
Answer: sports

Question: Along with energy crisis, what other significant historical event led to countries adopting DST?
Answer: war