when does world wide Daylight savings time go off? thank you

I don't think there IS a world daylight savings time. I'm pretty sure it's different depending on the country (at least it was when I was living in Europe...), and by time zone within the country.
For instance, daylight savings time ends for me in New York State on the 29th at 2am (we turn the clocks back to one, then -so my husband gets an extra hour of being on-call at work, hooray). But I'm not sure that all states HAVE daylight savings. Arizona didn't used to, as far as I know.

Here's a list for north America. On the same page, you can click to get current times throughout your region.

http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/

As far as the UK is concerned, all clocks have changed at the same time and on the same dates in spring and in autumn as the rest of the European Union since 1996, which doesn't mean that the whole of the EU observes the same time of day - it doesn't. The site linked to below explains it all very well:

http://www.britishsummertime.co.uk.

Edited to correct link.

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I've just seen this. The last two paragraphs in particular should help youn out, lostgirl.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/27102006/140/debate-starts-clocks-fall.html

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which doesn't mean that the whole of the EU observes the same time of day - it doesn't

Oh yes it does. And the countries of the EEA also.

..except Iceland, which is debatable if it is in Europe (by convention it is from a cultural perspective).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

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Originally posted by Adi:

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which doesn't mean that the whole of the EU observes the same time of day - it doesn't

Oh yes it does. And the countries of the EEA also.

No it doesn't! The time now in Newmarket, Suffolk,England is 13.07. The time now in Antibes,Alpes Maritimes, France is 14.07. So our time of day in the UK is one hour behind that of France. It always is. We put the clocks back or forward on the same days each year but the difference remains.It is better now than it was. At one time we did have a two hour difference for a period each year because we hadn't got a common policy on the dates for change.

Ireland and Portugal also share the same times as the U.K.

Fred, misread your post. I was meaning that all of Europe swaps back and forwards at the same time. There are, of course, multiple time-zones in Europe.

Colin, not Fred.... Edit is not working for me somehow.

Original post was about DST, which is what got me searching and got wires crossed.

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Originally posted by Fourbrick2:
Ireland and Portugal also share the same times as the U.K.

Are you sure about Ireland? There's a jeweller's in the centre of the City of Galway that has a large public clock over the door. Underneath it is inscribed " Galway Time"

But what meaning has time there ? In Galway I once saw that the bus timetables had been removed from the bus stops, leaving a blank space in which there was now a new, official,printed notice from the bus company. It solemnly read " The timetable has been removed because none of the buses were keeping to it anyway"