what is daylight savings time?

During 2017, daylight saving time is in effect from March 12, 2017 at 2 a.m. (local time) to November 5, 2017 at 2 a.m. (local time).

Day light savings is the process of setting the clocks forward one hour during the summer days and setting back during winter. This method is followed mainly to make the use of available natural light properly in day time. During the summer months the clock is adjusted to forward one hour to use the daylight effectively. Then the clocks are rolled back the changes during the other months once the summer is over. Mostly the areas in the Europe and the North America and some areas in Middle East follow this day light saving time rule. While the countries like Africa and Asia doesn’t come under this category of daylight saving.

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Normally in the summer months, you may have more daylight than the other seasons. Hence to use the available day light effectively this day light savings time is introduced. Even many people living in the countries like India are not aware of these day light savings time. As it is not in practice in India. Nature has its own boundaries, as a human beings we should adjust ourself to the natures behaviour. One such thing gave invention to this day light saving time.