How does the Daylight Saving Time (DST) change in 2007 affect me?
The main purpose of DST (called “Summer Time” in many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight. We change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening. Countries have different change dates. Today, approximately 70 countries utilize DST in at least a portion of the country. Japan and India are the only major industrialized countries that do not observe some form of daylight saving time. In the United States, DST has been starting at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in April and ending at 2 a.m. the last Sunday in October. In 2005, Congress passed an energy bill that included extending the DST period by about a month. Beginning in 2007, DST will start the second Sunday of March and end on the first Sunday of November.
