Typically Clocks Are Adjusted Forward

Daylight saving time also summer time in British English terminology is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn modern many countries have used it since then details vary by location and change occasionally.


The practice is controversial adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing sports and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours but causes problems for farming evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun traffic fatalities are reduced when there is extra afternoon daylight Its effect on health and crime is less clear.


Although not punctual in the modern sense ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does often dividing daylight into twelve equal hours regardless of day length so that each daylight hour was longer during summer For example roman water clocks had different scales for differentsolar at the winter solstice but at the summer solstice it started .