The UK has been using Daylight Saving Time for more than a century. Sabrina Barr. Sunday 27 March 2022 08:15 BST. Comments (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Your support helps us to tell the story.

It's a little different across the world -- in the UK, daylight saving time ends on Oct. 27, and on the other side of the world where it's now spring, daylight saving time has already begun, with ...

Daylight saving time now accounts for about 65% of the year. Federal law does allow states to remain in standard time all year, but states must first get approval from Congress before making ...

It remains to be seen if the UK will fall in line and join the clock change exodus. Now that the UK has left the European Union, it is free to continue using daylight saving time if it wants ...

Outside the U.S., most of the countries that observe daylight saving time are in Europe, where it's common, according to the Pew Research Center.France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom ...

During World War I, the United Kingdom and Germany implemented the clock change in hopes of conserving coal. ... Only about 70 countries in the world still observe daylight saving time, ...

MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) voted on whether daylight saving time, which steps us into British Summer Time (BST) for half a year, should be scrapped from 2021 - and they voted ...

Every spring and autumn, clocks shift by one hour in a tradition known as Daylight Saving Time (DST). This century-old practice, introduced during World War I to make better use of daylight and ...

Dan LaMoore works on a Seth Thomas Post Clock at Electric Time Company on Oct. 23, 2020, in Medfield, Mass. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, when clocks are set ...

Daylight saving time started in the United States in 1918 and is observed by every state other than Hawaii and Arizona. Many people think that the idea is to save energy costs, but studies are ...