add site
services
publishers
database
health videos
toolbar
stats
live show
health store
more stuff
JOIN/LOGIN
| advertise add site services publishers database health videos
| | about toolbar stats live show health store more stuff JOIN/LOGIN |
Good Samaritan Medical Center - Summer Time Means Tick and Mosquito Bite caritasgoodsam.org | Holy Family Hospital - Summer Time Means Tick and Mosquito Bite Time caritasholyfamily.org | Carney Hospital - Summer Time Means Tick and Mosquito Bite Time caritascarney.org | Norwood Hospital - Summer Time Means Tick and Mosquito Bite Time caritasnorwood.org |
Western European Summer Time (WEST) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in the following places:
Western European Summer Time is also known by other names:
The scheme runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October each year. At both the start and end of the schemes, clock changes take place at 01:00 UTC. During the winter, Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) is used. The start and end dates of the scheme are somewhat asymmetrical in terms of daylight hours: the vernal time of year with a similar amount of daylight to late October is mid-February, well before the start of summer time. The asymmetry reflects temperature more than the length of daylight.
[edit] UsageThe following countries and territories use Western European Summer Time during the summer, between 1:00 UTC on the last Sunday of March and 1:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October.
[edit] IrelandThe Standard Time Act 1968 [5] stipulated that standard time is GMT+1 (CET) and from 1968 clocks were not turned back one hour during winter. The subsequent Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971 [6] effectively reversed this, and from 1971 returned winter time to Greenwich Mean Time, it did not however change the names of the Irish summer time zone, which are still, officially, Irish Standard Time (IST) and Am Caighdeánach na hÉireann (ACÉ). [edit] PortugalPortugal moved to Central European Time and Central European Summer Time in 1992, but reverted to Western European Time in 1996 after concluding that energy savings were small, it had a disturbing effect on children's sleeping habits as it would not get dark until 22:00 or 22:30 in summer evenings with repercussions on standards of learning and school performance, and insurance companies reported a rise in the number of accidents.[7] [edit] United KingdomMain article: British summer time Starting in 1916, the dates for the beginning and end of BST each year were mandated by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In February 2002, the Summer Time Order 2002[8] permanently changed the dates and times to match European rules for moving to and from daylight saving time. The European compromise was closer to previous British practice than to the practice elsewhere in Europe. [edit] Start and end dates of British Summer Time and Irish Standard Time
Note: Until 1 October 1916 time in all of Ireland was based on Dublin Mean Time which was GMT − 25 minutes. [edit] References
[edit] Further reading
[edit] External links
|
| ↑ top of page ↑ | about thumbshots |
