Daylight savings time | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-05

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time


00:01:40 1 Rationale
00:04:08 2 History
00:08:59 3 Procedure
00:13:22 4 Politics
00:20:59 5 Dispute over benefits and drawbacks
00:22:49 5.1 Energy use
00:27:35 5.2 Economic effects
00:30:07 5.3 Public safety
00:33:00 5.4 Health
00:35:54 5.5 Complexity and disadvantages
00:38:38 6 Terminology
00:42:03 7 Computing
00:43:11 7.1 IANA time zone database
00:45:04 7.2 Microsoft Windows
00:48:52 8 Permanent daylight saving time
00:51:00 9 By country and region
00:51:22 10 See also



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Daylight saving time (DST), also daylight savings time or daylight time (United States) and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months so that evening daylight lasts longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions that use daylight saving time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn. In effect, DST causes a lost hour of sleep in the spring and an extra hour of sleep in the fall.George Hudson proposed the idea of daylight saving in 1895. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation starting on April 30, 1916. Many countries have used at various times since then, particularly since the 1970s energy crisis. DST is generally not observed near the equator, where sunrise times do not vary enough to justify it. Some countries observe it only in some regions; for example, parts of Australia observes it, while other parts do not. Only a minority of the world's population uses DST, because Asia and Africa generally do not observe it.
DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns. Computer software often adjusts clocks automatically, but policy changes by various jurisdictions of DST dates and timings may be confusing.