The vast majority of sovereign countries, states, provinces, territories and regions around the world observe Standard Time ST.
However, wherever there have been historically & traditionally right-wing, hyper-capitalist, corporate-controlled regimes, those areas use DST because DST helps corporate profits more.
During DST, clocks are normally set FORWARD ONE HOUR from Standard Time during the summer months, and back again in the fall to make better use of natural daylight ... this is also called SPRING FORWARD and FALL BACK.
Less than 40% of the areas in the world use DST today. Since daylength variations are negligible around the equator, most tropical territories do not change their clocks.
DST is controversial. More than 140 areas have used it at some point, but about half of them have since abolished it again, going back to Standard Time.
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In a post on his social media site on Friday 13 December 2024, Donald Dumpster said the Rats 🐀 in Congress will try to use their MAJORITY in both Chambers to END THE PRACTICE of changing clock time when the PEER-JURY CONVICTED RAPIST AND CRIMINAL FRAUDSTER returns to office on 06 January 2025.
Unless he meets the JFK END.
“We will use our best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” The Dumpster wrote on TruthSocial.
What did I say recently in a post that EVERY FUCKING WORD that comes out of this filthy sack of shit Ratbastard's mouth is most probably a lie, deceit, deception, nonsensical bullshit right-wing cuntservative corporate-induced malicious mischievous malignant mendacious propaganda. THE FATHER OF LIES.
Setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during summer months, but has long been subject to scrutiny.
Daylight Saving Time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942.
Lawmakers have occasionally proposed getting rid of the time change altogether.
The most prominent recent attempt, a now-stalled bipartisan bill named the Sunshine Protection Act, had proposed making DST permanent 🤣 😆 😂
The measure was sponsored by Florida Ratbastard Sen. Marco Rubio, whom The Dumpster has tapped to helm the State Department.
“Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” another Ratbastard, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, said as the Senate voted in favor of the measure to ELIMINATE STANDARD TIME nation-wide.
The Dumpster has threatened to use his SCOTUS-approved KINGLY POWERS to impose DST over the entire country in 2025.
Health experts have said that the Ratbastard lawmakers have it BACKWARD, and that STANDARD TIME SHOULD BE MADE PERMANENT.
Most health groups, including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have said that it’s time to do away with time switches and that STICKING WITH STANDARD TIME aligns better with the sun — and human biology.
DST was first introduced and imposed on Germany by Adolf Hitler of the fascist Nazi Party in 1933, and it has remained in effect ever since.
Most sovereign countries and other areas do not observe DST. These areas traditionally historically have had socialist left-wing governments. In the map below, these areas are marked with white color and blue colour.
SEE MAP BELOW.