The start date and end date for DST was adjusted sometime in the decade of the 2000s. Again, this was done as an energy saving scheme. I can't find the evidence of it at the moment but I recall another instance of the law of unintended consequences. Apparently, (at least in the US) early in the new DST period, a fair number of people got home from work while it was quite light and used the opportunity to drive to a mall or place of entertainment. As a result energy consumption actually went up in the first weeks. (Again, this may be apocryphal. Still, I found it a bit amusing.)
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