{"id":15901,"date":"2014-10-26T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15901"},"modified":"2014-10-26T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:18:35","slug":"as-we-turn-the-clocks-back-in-the-uk-around-the-world-who-does-and-who-does-not-practice-daylight-saving-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15901","title":{"rendered":"As we turn the clocks back in the UK, around the world who does and who does not practice daylight saving time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you look at the world map on <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/142199\/the-us-needs-to-retire-daylight-savings-and-just-have-two-time-zones-one-hour-apart\/\">this web page<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see that almost 80 nations &#8211; notably those of Europe and North America &#8211; practice daylight saving, but most of the rest of the world manages without this practice. The same web page provides some interesting facts on the practice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The USA has daylight saving but not Arizona or Hawaii<\/li>\n<li>Canada has daylight saving but not\u00a0Saskatchewan<\/li>\n<li>Half of Australia practices daylight saving but half does not<\/li>\n<li>In Brazil, only the southern states practice daylight saving<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The time arrangement of countries is often a varied and controversial matter. For instance, continental United States has four time zones but China manages with one.<\/p>\n<p>Here in the UK, one suggestion &#8211; which I support &#8211; is that England, Wales and Northern Ireland adopt double summer time, leaving Scotland on its own time. You can read the case for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/oct\/26\/observer-view-on-british-summer-time\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the USA, one suggestion &#8211; which is worth debating &#8211; is that the continental United States should move to just two time zones. You can read the case for this <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/142199\/the-us-needs-to-retire-daylight-savings-and-just-have-two-time-zones-one-hour-apart\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about daylight saving?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look at the world map on this web page, you&#8217;ll see that almost 80 nations &#8211; notably those of Europe and North America &#8211; practice daylight saving, but most of the rest of the world manages without this practice. The same web page provides some interesting facts on the practice: The USA has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15901"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15910,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions\/15910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}