09 Oct 06 21:41, DAVID WILLIAMS wrote to Roy Witt:

 DW> -> Sunday in October, but starting in 2007, it will be observed from
 DW> the -> second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, adding
 DW> about a -> month to daylight saving time."
 DW> Thanks. That's what I wanted to know.
 DW> -> Yes, in Europe, at least in the EU it's the last Sunday in March
 DW> until the -> Last Sunday in October.

 DW> That would imply that the start of DST is *always* a week earlier in
 DW> Europe than in North America, which I don't think is true.

There's a chart of the British Summmer-Time changes at Wikipedia.

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

It shows what I said above to be true, and has been since 1972. In 2002
they moved in line with the EU 'summer-time'...

 DW> I frequently make phone calls to England on Sundays. Very often, the
 DW> UK (and the rest of Europe) changes time on the same date as we do,
 DW> but not always. I have suspected that their rule has something to do
 DW> with the Equinox. Maybe it's something like the second Sunday after
 DW> March 21, which could be the last Sunday in March or the first one in
 DW> April. I dunno...

In my search for DST, I read somewhere that it had more to do with
tempurature than it did with daylight. For instance, the daylight hours in
Europe are the same in length in October as they are in February.

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