Daylight savings in Europe
 

Is there such a thing? When our travel gang was in France a couple weeks ago, this was the subject of much debate. Anybody know?

yes, of course, for many many years. IN fact, I think that may be where it started (didn't that have something to do with the war?). Not sure about that, but they def. have it.

And the time used to change a month off from the time change in the US. I've gained three hours on various vacations that I never had to give back--too bad I slept them away.

This might help you:

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dstevents.html

Christina,
I thought the UK increased the daylight saving from 1 hour to 2 hours during the last war. The clocks went forward at the end of March and will go back again at the end of October.

Thanks, all - My God you are all quick - you must browse Fodors at lunch like I do.

Why only at lunch? We are better than that :)

It was introduced in the UK in 1916, I believe, and during WW2 the UK did indeed put the clocks forward an hour in winter and two hours in summer. This meant there was still daylight at 11pm on the longest days. There is a tale of an American soldier planning on some roaming in the gloaming with his local girlfriend and finally complaining in frustration 'Doesn't it ever get dark in this ***!! country?'.

It only took about 20 years of negotation to get an EU-wide agreement on common dates for the changes.