One hour step back

[st39.6]

I came home, it was 5AM, came off the shower and it was 4AM ... soo, the time has changed I guess
how does that work in another countries, the same

And how do I switch back from english to czech keyboard, which I accidentaly switched

[j7wild]

Don't set your clocks back an hour this weekend or you'll have a lot of coworkers laughing at you on Monday morning. This year, Daylight Saving Time ends 2 a.m. the first Sunday in November, instead of the last Sunday in October.

For that, you can thank the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005. To save energy, U.S. legislators set the stage then for 34 weeks of DST, beginning this year.

The savings "could be in the ballpark" of 1% of household consumption on a daily basis, said Rob Douglas, research officer at the time standards group of the National Research Council of Canada.

So it won't be until next week that everyone rolls back the hands of time -- everyone except Saskatchewan that is. The province stubbornly sticks with Central Standard Time, year round.

[st39.6]

wait a second that aplies on US only, or on all countries .... so should I kick my computers ... hm, something

[j7wild]

from WIKI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

In a typical case where a one-hour shift occurs at 02:00 local time, in spring the clock jumps forward from 02:00 standard time to 03:00 DST and the day has 23 hours, whereas in autumn the clock jumps backward from 02:00 DST to 01:00 standard time, repeating that hour, and the day has 25 hours. A digital display of local time does not read 02:00 exactly, but instead jumps from 01:59:59.9 either forward to 03:00:00.0 or backward to 01:00:00.0. In this example, a location observing UTC+10 during standard time is at UTC+11 during DST; conversely, a location at UTC−10 during standard time is at UTC−9 during DST.

Clock shifts are usually scheduled near a weekend midnight to lessen disruption to weekday schedules. A one-hour shift is customary, but Australia's Lord Howe Island uses a half-hour shift.[66] Twenty-minute and two-hour shifts have been used in the past.

Coordination strategies differ when adjacent time zones shift clocks. The European Union shifts all at once, at 01:00 UTC; for example, Eastern European Time is always one hour ahead of Central European Time.[58] Most of North America shifts at 02:00 local time, so adjacent zones do not shift simultaneously; for example, Mountain Time can be temporarily either zero or two hours ahead of Pacific Time. Australian districts go even further and do not always agree on start and end dates; for example, to start DST in 2006 Tasmania shifted clocks forward on 1 October, Western Australia on 3 December, and the remaining DST-observing areas on 29 October.[67]

Start and end dates vary with location and year. Since 1996 European Summer Time has been observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union.[58] Starting in 2007, most of the United States and Canada observe DST from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November,[68] yielding 34 weeks of DST every year, which is 65% of the year. The 2007 U.S. change was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; previously, from 1987 through 2006, the start and end dates were the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October, and Congress retains the right to go back to the previous dates once an energy-consumption study is done.[69]

Beginning and ending dates are the reverse in the southern hemisphere. For example, mainland Chile observes DST from the second Saturday in October to the second Saturday in March, with transitions at 24:00 local time.[70] The time difference between the United Kingdom and mainland Chile may therefore be three, four, or five hours, depending on the time of year.
Time zones often lie west of their idealized boundaries, resulting in year-round DST.
Time zones often lie west of their idealized boundaries, resulting in year-round DST.

Argentina, western China, Iceland, and other areas skew time zones westward, in effect observing DST year round without complications from clock shifts. For example, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is at 106°39′W longitude, slightly west of center of the idealized Mountain Time Zone (105°W), but Saskatchewan observes Central Standard Time (90°W) year-round so Saskatoon is always about 67 minutes ahead of mean solar time.[71] The United Kingdom and Ireland experimented with year-round DST from 1968 to 1971 but abandoned it because of its unpopularity, particularly in northern regions.[72]

Western France, Spain, and other areas skew time zones and shift clocks, in effect observing DST in winter with an extra hour in summer. For example, Nome, Alaska is at 165°24′W longitude, which is just west of center of the idealized Samoa Time Zone (165°W), but Nome observes Alaska Time (135°W) with DST, so it is slightly more than two hours ahead of the sun in winter and three in summer.[73]

DST is generally not observed near the equator, where sunrise times do not vary enough to justify it. Some countries observe it only in some regions; for example, southern Brazil observes it while equatorial Brazil does not.[74] Only a minority of the world's population uses DST because Asia and Africa generally do not observe it.

[Kn'thrak]

some states in Australia had to go 1 hour forward. Lost an hour of sleep

[Gaumont]

we in sweden and i assume the whole of EU changes today.