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Daylight saving time (DTS), or summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that evening daylight lasts an hour longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times.

Since Randall first used DTS as part of a joke in panel five of 68: Five Thirty, where two Cueballs is more worried about DTS than one of them having three arms Randall has made it clear that he is not a fan of DTS which he in several comics directly mocks!

Since this first DTS comic from 2006, where DTS began on April 2nd (first weekend of April), the DTS was moved three weeks earlier in the USA to the second weekend of March. At that time also the end of DTS was moved to the first weekend of November from the last in October. This was determined in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which took effect from 2007. See also Daylight saving time in the United States and the historical dates for DTS in the USA to compare with the release of DTS related comics.

Note that DTS in other countries (above equator) does not follow the same pattern as in the states, and it is also not called DTS in all other regions if they even apply DTS. There are even two states that do not observe this Hawaii and Arizona. In Europe it is for instance called summer time and here it begins on the last Sunday in March and ends on the last Sunday in October each year. Below the equator they have summer when the America has winter, and thus of course Australia apply DST each year, from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April. This all explain why xkcd fans from other countries can be perplexed by comics about DTS that are released in relation to DTS in the US.