On Irish Time

In the summer, Ireland is in IST (Irish Summer Time). Between the last Sunday in October and the last Sunday in March we move to regular GMT, which is what happened today. All of the European Union changes together, at 01.00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), and has since I believe 1996. DST was first introduced in Germany during WWI, with the rest of Europe following soon after, and America after that. Today pretty much only North America, Europe, and the former Soviet Union countries use DST, with a few exceptions (such as parts of Australia and South America). For us in Ireland, the time change now means that the sun rises at 07.26 and sets at 17.13, and while we still have 9 hours and 47 minutes of light, it means that it'll be dark for walks home from college. However, now we get to wake up to the light and walk to class while the sun's up. Still, thank goodness for dim yellow streetlights.