The first event is a common occurrence in Canada and in other countries where I have lived, but not here in Turkey. Daylight saving time DST , also known as daylight savings time or daylight time US, Canada and Australia , and summer time the UK, the EU and some other countries , is the practice of advancing clocks typically by one hour during warmer months so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
As a result, there is one hour day in late winter or early spring and one hour day in the autumn. The idea of aligning waking hours to daylight hours to conserve candles was first proposed in by American 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 candle usage and calculated considerable savings.
In , New Zealand entomologist and astronomer George Hudson seriously proposed the idea of changing clocks by two hours every spring to the Wellington Philosophical Society.
Starting on 30 April , 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 s energy crisis. The s energy crisis occurred when the Western world, particularly the US, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand, faced substantial petroleum shortages as well as elevated prices.
