daylight savings time

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, daylight savings time has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Real Time with Bill Maher (Nov 2025). Discussed extensively as a debated policy with historical context and public opinion analysis.

Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time, daylight time, or summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The standard implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in spring or late winter, and to set clocks back by one hour to standard time in the autumn.