Definitions for daylight savings
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1. daylight-saving time, daylight-savings time, daylight saving, daylight savingsnoun

   time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings

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1. daylight savingsnoun

   the practice in some places of adjusting clocks forward in the Spring and back in the Fall, usually by one hour, so that the adjustment causes the time to coincide with the greatest period of illumination by the sun over the course of the day.

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1. daylight savings

   Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time or simply daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typically by one hour) during warmer months so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in the spring ("spring forward"), and to set clocks back by one hour in the fall ("fall back") to return to standard time. As a result, there is one 23-hour day in early spring and one 25-hour day in the middle of autumn. The idea of aligning waking hours to daylight hours to conserve candles was first proposed in 1784 by U.S. polymath Benjamin Franklin. In a satirical letter to the editor of The Journal of Paris, Franklin suggested that waking up earlier in the summer would economize on candle usage; and calculated considerable savings. In 1895, New Zealand entomologist and astronomer George Hudson proposed the idea of changing clocks by two hours every spring to the Wellington Philosophical Society. In 1907, British resident William Willett presented the idea as a way to save energy. After some serious consideration, it was not implemented.In 1908, Port Arthur in Ontario, Canada, started using DST. Starting on April 30, 1916, the German Empire and Austria-Hungary each organized the first nationwide implementation in their jurisdictions. Many countries have used DST at various times since then, particularly since the 1970s energy crisis. DST is generally not observed near the Equator, where sunrise and sunset times do not vary enough to justify it. Some countries observe it only in some regions: for example, parts of Australia observe it, while other parts do not. Conversely, it is not observed at some places at high latitudes, because there are wide variations in sunrise and sunset times and a one-hour shift would relatively not make much difference. The United States observes it, except for the states of Hawaii and Arizona (within the latter, however, the Navajo Nation does observe it, conforming to federal practice). A minority of the world's population uses DST; Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean generally do not.

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1. daylight savings

   Daylight Savings Time (DST) is a system that adjusts the official time by usually setting it forward one hour during the warmer part of the year, so that evenings have more natural daylight and mornings have less. This allows people to make better use of daylight and conserve energy that would normally be used for artificial lighting. The clocks are moved ahead by one hour in the spring ("spring forward") and put back by one hour ("fall back") in the autumn to return to standard time.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of daylight savings in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of daylight savings in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=daylight savings
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Daylight_Savings
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_Savings
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