Summer's End

British Summer Time (BST) came to an end yesterday. Britain returns to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), making it now eight hours behind us in Singapore. Singapore doesn't bother with daylight savings time gimmicks because the island lies about 50 km north of the equator. At this latitude the days are always about twelve hours long. In the USA, Daylight Time was expanded by Congress in 2005 to begin earlier with and run later starting with calendar year 2007. American clocks will fall back on 1 November 2009.