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An idea for a section: obsoleteness

I think the article needs a paragraph on how obsolete the daylight saving is in XXI century, compared to XIX-XX century of industrialization.

The reason is simple: almost every village has lampposts.

This way, the article will reflect the modern opposition of daylight saving shifts. However, it will also reflect how daylight saving had to exist in the world, where electric lamps were stil a novelty and not something taken for granted. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 08:19, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Detractors

This article is biased. It has specific paragraphs for Proponents of DST, but none for Detractors of DST. A balanced article should have reference to both, one closely following the other. Given the references to ill health, economic disruption, social disruption and more, the research cited suggests there would be more detractors than proponents. Why no mention of them? 2604:3D09:679:4620:8B3:1A88:A81D:104D (talk) 15:27, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seasons are proper nouns

And as such the name of each season should be capitalized. 2605:59C8:1542:5E10:78AD:16E9:4265:4D19 (talk) 20:35, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The names of seasons are common nouns.[1] Schazjmd (talk) 20:54, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ukraine borders on the map

Why are the ilegally occupied terroritories by Russia in Ukraine marked as part of Russia in the image showing the places where summertime has been in use? 2001:14BA:A01D:3800:8D2F:F8E3:C7ED:675D (talk) 19:00, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Antagonic (veranile and invernal) and legal times

Strictly, a veranile time is ever one hour above the legal and an invernal time ever one below the legal. These two horal forms are antagonic over the nomour (legal time). Supposedly, an invernour in the Baker and the Howland use the UTC−13:00 time zone.

Annually, the veranours and the invernours ever have days with 23 hours and days with 25.

200.155.120.220 (talk) 21:29, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, in places that have observe daylight saving time, the clock is turned ahead by one hour at the beginning of daylight saving time and turns back by one hour at the end of daylight saving time. In most places in the world, that means that the clock is one hour ahead of standard time during daylight saving time; in Ireland, it means that the clock is one hour behind standard time during winter time.

Legal time, in the sense of "time as established by law", observes daylight saving time if DST is established in law.

The Howland and Baker Islands are, if the Wikipedia article for them is to be believed, in the UTC-12:00 time zone.

When daylight saving time begins, the Sunday when the clocks are turned forward has 23 hours; when daylight saving time ends, the Sunday when the clocks are turned backward has 25 hours. Guy Harris (talk) 01:51, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An invernour (invernal time) is a time one hour below the legal. Its first Sunday contains 25 hours (1:59:59 LT-1:00:00 IT) and it last 23 (0:59:59 IT-2:00:00 LT).

"Invernour" is the antonymic word of "veranour".

2804:18:908:C6D:E444:27FF:FE92:74FF (talk) 11:19, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

:An invernour (invernal time) is a time one hour below the legal. So what is "the legal time"? Standard time? Guy Harris (talk) 12:06, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Nomour" ("legal time" [prefix "nomo-" + noun "hour"]) is a name of an "official time" ("padronic time" ["padronour"]), as "Brazilian Time (BRT), exemplarly.

189.50.186.221 (talk) 12:45, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]