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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.
The Ohio Clock in the U.S. Capitol being turned forward for the country's first daylight saving time on March 31, 1918 by the Senate sergeant at arms Charles Higgins.. Most of the United States observes daylight saving time (DST), the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during the day, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.
Map of Florida time zones. Counties in red follow central time. Counties in yellow follow eastern time. Counties with a checkerboard pattern have areas that follow both time zones. Entering Gulf County / Entering Eastern Time Zone. Most of Florida is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC−05:00, DST UTC−04:00).
Most of Mexico no longer observes daylight saving time (DST; Spanish: horario de verano ("summer schedule")) as it was abolished on Sunday, 30 October 2022. [1] The exceptions are the entire state of Baja California, as well as the border municipalities in Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas which still observe daylight savings time matching the schedule of the United States ...
February 2 – 2021 Sunrise, Florida shootout: Two FBI agents are killed and three others are wounded during a shootout in Sunrise, while serving an arrest warrant. The gunman is later found dead. This is the deadliest incident involving FBI agents since 1986. [5] May 9 – Murder of Tristyn Bailey [6] June 24 – Surfside condominium collapse [7]
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Florida (/ ˈ f l ɒr ɪ d ə / ⓘ FLORR-ih-də; Spanish: [floˈɾiða]) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Straits of Florida and Cuba to the south.
If one crosses the border from Portugal or Morocco into Spain (and at some times in the past, France to Spain), one is on Hora de España, Spanish time. L'heure espagnole , a one-act comic opera by Maurice Ravel , which takes place in a Spanish clockmaker's shop and in which people hide inside grandfather clocks .