# time

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time/211860>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 7, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time/211860 "2003-11-07T10:46:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![differant\_thinker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@differant\_thinker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/differant_thinker)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time/211860/1 "2003-11-07T10:46:42Z")

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This may be a daft question, but upon going through the bianual changing of clocks I wondered two things; firstly how many countries do this, and secondly as the UK is 1 hour different from France do we catch up or do they change as well?

Again, I appologise if this is a stupid question but I just need to know!

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**Author:** ![swansont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@swansont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swansont)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time/211860/2 "2003-11-07T11:23:54Z")

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[Here](http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html) is a list of countries

I don’t know how complete it is.