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Armenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time / Samara Time ( UTC+4) Pale colours: Standard time observed all year. Dark colours: Summer time observed. The United Kingdom uses Greenwich Mean Time (also known as Western European Time or UTC) and British Summer Time ( UTC+01:00) (also known as Western European Summer Time ).
Daylight saving time ( DST ), also referred to as daylight saving (s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time ( United Kingdom, European Union, and others), 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.
In 2020, Yukon abandoned seasonal time change and moved to permanently observe year-round Mountain Standard Time (MST). [3] In the regions of Canada that use daylight saving time, it begins on the second Sunday of March at 2 a.m. and ends on the first Sunday in November at 2 a.m. As a result, daylight saving time lasts in Canada for a total of ...
White Christmas (weather) A Christmas card depicts the ideal of a white Christmas. A white Christmas in Trondheim. A white Christmas is a Christmas with the presence of snow, [1] either on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day, depending on local tradition. The phenomenon is most common in the northern countries of the Northern Hemisphere.
Remembrance Day (11 November) is a national holiday in France and Belgium. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at 11:00 am—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."
Supermarkets usually open at earlier hours, between 6 or 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. (7:00 - 22:00) every day. Boutiques and smaller shops often close early at 5 or 6 p.m. (17:00 or 18:00), and usually close once or twice a week, most often on Sunday. Nearly all stores are closed on Easter, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Commonwealth Day. Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations, held on the second Monday in March. While the date holds some official status in select member states of the Commonwealth, observances of the date are not uniform across the Commonwealth, and the date is not celebrated as a public holiday in most ...
The name 'midsummer' is attested in Old English as midsumor, and refers to the time around the summer solstice. Astronomically, the solstice falls on 20, 21 or 22 June, but traditionally, in northern Europe, the solstice and midsummer was reckoned as the night of 23–24 June, with summer beginning on May Day.