Daylight Saving Time - in Germany

Daylight Saving Time in Germany is different than in The States....usually by a week or two. In most of the countries of Western Europe, including the countries that are members of the EU, Daylight Saving Time:

• begins at 1:00 a.m. GMT on the last Sunday of March and
• ends at 1:00 a.m. GMT on the last Sunday of October

This year it starts on Sunday, 25 March and ends on Sunday, 28 October.

BRIEF HISTORY: Daylight Saving Time has been used in the U.S. and in many European countries since World War I. At that time, in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took time by the forelock, and began saving daylight at 11:00 p.m. on April 30, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour until the following October. The plan was not formally adopted in the U.S. until 1918. 'An Act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States' was enacted on March 19, 1918. Not all people believe that Daylight Saving Time is worth while. Until April 12, 1966, there was no uniformed law to force people to observe it. That's when President Lyndon Johnson, created Daylight Saving Time to begin on the last Sunday of April and to end on the last Sunday of October and said any State that wanted to be exempt from Daylight Saving Time could do so by passing a state law.

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