DST Update for E series users: Why does America have to be different?
By Stefan Constantinescu on Monday, February 26th, 2007 at 12:38 PM PST In Applications
What was wrong with the previous DST dates that the USA had to sign in to legislation times that were "more convenient" to them, but shaft everyone else? I’ve been sitting on this story for a while now, but after seeing it go up on almost every single Nokia (NYSE: NOK)/S60 blog I read I figure it must be important to at least a few people.
Why does America have to be different?
Nokia has released an update for the changed dates of Daylight
Saving Time (DST). In the US, DST starts three weeks early and ends one
week late.
Your question is really a bit odd. “Why does America have to be different?” — well, for one, because many regions in the world have different start and end dates for daylight savings depending on latitude and local custom. Europe changed in 1996, and Iceland still doesn’t observe it, and Russia is a bit different still. Japan and China tried it and then stopped and are both considering it again…
The reason for the change in the US (and everywhere else) is to save energy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_around_the_world for a good education on the topic.
how are we saving energy?