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Just cuz I think some people are never sure what refers to what. DST, Daylight Savings Time, is the time in the summer where clocks are 1 hour ahead, so sun is at its highest point at 1pm instead of noon. You get more daylight in the evening hours as a result.

The time switch in the winter is switch to Standard Time (1 hour back), where the sun is highest at noon (this is the "normal" time society had before DST was invented, hence why it's Standard), you get more sunlight in the morning but the sun sets earlier in the evening.

If you're in North America, for the last 15 years, DST has been the main time (8 months of the year vs 4 for ST).

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The bills to remove the time switch aren't actually to get rid of DST but to make it the new time. It will get rid of the time switch back to Standard Time (the switch upcoming this weekend) and make the current time (DST) permanent since DST is already most of the year, 8 months (Mar-Nov) vs only 4 for ST. So we wouldn't be "getting rid of Daylight Savings Time", we'd actually be getting rid of Standard Time and making DST permanent.

It's confusing because the colloquial way is just to refer to the time switch as "Daylight Savings Time", but that only applies to one particular time setting, not the switch itself.