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Swiss men
The majority of the population to finish tertiary schooling in bern are what people?
non
Do you have to go to the one year of kindergarten?
ability and aptitude
What seperates the children in secondary school?
10,979
How many students were attending school during the 2009-2010 school year?
89
How many kindergarten classes were there?
266
How many primary classes were there?
151
How many lower secondary classes were there?
8
How many libraries are in Bern?
9,045
How many pupils lived in another municipality?
1,185
How many pupils attended school outside of the city?
A funicular railway
What connects Marzili to Bundeshaus?
106 m
How long is the Marzilibah funicular?
Marzilibahn
What is the second shortest public railway in Europe?
Zagreb funicular
What is the shortest public railway in Europe?
Bern Airport
What is the name of Bern's airport?
Bern-Belp or Belpmoos
What is the name of the regional airport?
summer time
What term is used interchangeably with daylight saving time?
one hour
What period of time do we set our clocks forward in DST?
daylight
What do we get an extra hour of because we set the clocks forward?
autumn
In what season do regions who practice DST set the clocks back one hour?
sunrise
By setting the clocks forward, the normal time of what daily event is disrupted?
George Hudson
Who first suggested daylight saving?
New Zealand
From what country did George Hudson hail?
1895
In what year was modern daylight saving first proposed?
Germany
Besides Austria-Hungary, what country first put DST into effect?
incandescent lighting
What used to be the main draw on electricity?
retailing
What industry having to do with shopping benefits from DST?
farming
In addition to entertainment events that take place after working hours, what profession might suffer because of DST?
energy
Research on DST is uncertain because we aren't sure how it affects the use of what?
travel
What can be affected by DST that might disrupt plans for a vacation?
Computer software
When the clock on your laptop adjusts to DST without you resetting the clock, what is controlling the change?
policy
What do jurisdictions sometimes change that mixes up DST dates and times?
sleep patterns
What important part of daily life might be disturbed because of DST changing what time you go to bed?
Industrialized
What kind of societies usually follow a regular daily schedule year-round?
agrarian
What kind of societies rely on solar time and daylight that changes with the seasons?
North and south of the tropics
In what part of the world is daytime shorter in winter and longer in summer?
axial tilt
What is the tilt of the Earth that causes solar time to change called?
one hour
How much earlier do people's routines happen because of daylight savings?
winter
In which season is the policy of setting clocks ahead least practical?
after
Does setting the clocks ahead add an hour of daylight before or after the normal workday?
Standard Time
What is the schedule of time called when it is not daylight savings time?
lighting and heating
What two sources of energy use do DST proponents say are reduced by the time change?
equal
What word describes the approximate rates at which sunset and sunrise change with the seasons?
after
Do those who favor DST say people would rather have an extra hour of daylight before or after their usual workday?
Supporters
Is it the supporters or opponents of Daylight Saving Time who say it significantly reduces energy use?
higher latitudes
What latitudes see more extreme changes in the length of their days and nights throughout the year?
near the equator
What region of the earth sees little change in daylight from season to season?
little
How much impact does the times of daylight and night have on areas like Iceland or Alaska?
small
Would observing Daylight Saving Time have a small or large effect on how light it is during the workday in areas at high latitudes?
extreme
As compared to areas with lower latitudes, what kind of change do areas with high latitudes see in the length of day through the seasons?
water clocks
What kind of clocks did the Romans use?
hora tertia
What did the Romans call the third hour before sunrise?
75
During the summer solstice, for how many minutes did hora tertia last for the Romans?
Jewish
What type of religious ceremonies are still observed according to the traditional, unequal time settings?
Benjamin Franklin
Who first published the proverb about waking up early and going to bed early to be "healthy, wealthy, and wise"?
Parisians
Which group of people did Franklin say would save candles by waking up earlier?
1784
In what year did Ben Franklin write a satire suggesting firing cannons at sunrise to wake people up?
rail
What kind of transportation network helped encourage keeping more exact schedules?
ringing church bells
In addition to cannon fire, what did Franklin suggest to act as Parisians' alarm clock?
entomologist
What particular kind of scientist was George Hudson?
insects
What did George Hudson spend time collecting when he wasn't working?
1895
What year did Hudson first present his two-hour daylight saving theory to the Wellington Philosophical Society?
William Willett
Some people believe it wasn't Hudson who created DST, but an Englishman by what name?
Robert Pearce
Who was the member of Parliament who brought a bill about Daylight Saving Time to the House of Commons in 1908?
1916
What year did Germany decide to try DST?
Sommerzeit
What is the German word for Daylight Saving Time?
coal
What natural resource were Germany and Austria-Hungary trying to conserve by using DST?
1918
What year did the United States get on board with DST?
energy crisis
What event in the 1970s led more regions of North America to use DST?
Ireland
What country joined Canada, the UK, and Ireland in continuing to observe Daylight Saving Time after the war?
Second World War
Daylight Saving Time was used commonly during what war?
Europe
Along with North America, what continent was affected heavily by the 1970s energy crisis?
many
Has the world seen many or few changes in the observation of DST?
repeals
Countries might change their DST policy by enactments, adjustments, and what other type of policy changes?
02:00
At what local time does the United States change the time?
23
Technically, how many hours does the day the time change happens have in the spring?
25
In the fall, DST means one hour is repeated, which means the day is actually how many hours long?
03:00:00.0
At the time change to DST, what will a digital clock read just after 01:59:59.9?
spring
Daylight Saving Time is sometimes called summer time, but the clocks are actually moved forward in which season?
weekend
During what part of the week is the time change most often scheduled?
weekday schedules
What do we avoid disrupting by doing the time shift during days most people don't work?
Eastern European Time
Which time zone in Europe always has a one-hour lead on Central European Time?
two hours
For one hour each spring, how far ahead of Pacific Time is Mountain Time in the United States?
October 26
In 2008, what month and day did Western Australia change their clocks?
one hour
At DST in the fall, how long does it stay the same time in both Pacific and Mountain time in the United States?
Hawaii
In addition to much of the state of Arizona, what U.S. state does not ever change their clocks for DST?
1996
What year did the European Union standardize their Summer Time?
October
European Summer Time begins in March and ends in what month?
the Energy Policy Act of 2005
What act in the U.S. brought about the 2007 change in DST policy?
Congress
What government body is allowed to change the DST policy in the United States back to the dates observed from 1987 to 2006?
Halloween
Supporters of the November end to DST name what U.S. holiday as the justification for keeping the change through the end of October?
Beginning and ending dates
In the southern hemisphere, what aspect of DST is about the reverse of that of the northern hemisphere?
24:00
At what local time does Chile change their clocks for DST?
Saturday
What day of the week does DST begin and end in Chile?
five hours
In the Northern hemisphere's summer, what is the time difference between the UK and Chile?
summer
During what season in the Southern hemisphere is there a three-hour time difference between mainland Chile and the United Kingdom?
southern Brazil
Which part of Brazil observes Daylight Saving Time?
equatorial Brazil
What part of Brazil does not observe DST?
Asia and Africa
Which two continents that comprise a majority of the population worldwide don't observe DST?
sunrise
The lack of fluctuation in time for what daily event means regions of the world near the equator don't usually keep DST?