About Daylight Savings Begins
| How long until Daylight Savings Begins? | |||
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| Daylight Savings Begins . | |||
| Dates of Daylight Savings Begins | |||
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2024 New Zealand
Sunday, September 29th
2023 New Zealand
Sunday, September 24th
2022 New Zealand
Sunday, September 25th
2021 New Zealand
Sunday, September 26th
2020 New Zealand
Sunday, September 27th
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| Summary | |||
| Get ready to set your clocks forward by one hour as daylight savings time starts. | |||
| Daylight Savings Begins in other countries | |||
| Daylight Savings Begins internationally | |||
The first person to suggest adjusting our clocks was New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson. In 1895, he proposed advancing them two full hours in the summer because he wanted more daylight for hunting insects.
In 1907, an Englishman named William Willett proposed advancing the clocks 20 minutes every Sunday in April, then reversing them 20 minutes each week in September.
The Germans were the first to institute Daylight Saving Time in 1916, and the United States followed suit in 1918 as a wartime measure, though it was repealed in 1919.
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