Dst Sentence Examples

The summer time is referred to as Daylight Saving Time or DST.

The practice of setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and backward one hour in the fall, is a part of a program known in the U.S. as daylight time or daylight saving time (DST).

A number of countries around the world such as the U.S., Canada, U.K., Chile and Russia observe some form of DST.

In 1907, British builder William Willett began a crusade to adopt a DST schedule.

This means that almost two-thirds of the year are in Daylight Saving Time or DST.

By the end of 1916, the U.K. and a number of other European nations also adopted a DST schedule.

The Uniform Time Act required a uniform method of observing DST in the U.S. While time change was not mandatory, any state that chose to participate in DST had to change the time during designated periods in the spring and fall.

The act mandated that DST begin on the last Sunday in April and end on the last Sunday of October.

The Department of Transportation, which regulates time change, conducted a 1974 study of the benefits of DST.

The results concluded that DST saves energy, helps prevent crime and cuts down on the number of traffic accidents.

During the energy crisis of the 1970's, DST periods were temporarily extended several different times to save energy.

The current time change schedule follows the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended DST to begin in March and end in November.

The new DST schedule was implemented in March 2007.

Many countries observe some form of DST but time change schedules vary by country.

Since 2007, the American DST begins on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November.

Many countries that observe a form of DST only change the time in the summer.

A number of modern watches will automatically change time according to the DST schedule.

The automatic DST feature on these types of watches is convenient because you can avoid the hassle of manually changing the time.

The Timex Jelly alarm clock has a Daylight Saving Time (DST) adjustment feature.