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daylight savings time, the time period each year when clocks are set ahead one hour

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Tell me what you know about daylight savings time, the time period each year when clocks are set ahead one hour.
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Daylight saving time (DST)—also summer time in British English —is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.
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Posted at 12:40 on February 15, 2011.
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Daylight Saving Time Facts
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About Daylight Saving Time - History, rationale, laws & dates
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Daylight Saving Time 2011: Why and When Does It End?
Why do we fall back? Should daylight savings be abolished? Get the facts—and a few controversial takes on turning back the clock.
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