Day light saving time or summer time as it is known in UK and other European nations is a western concept for saving time.

It was found by the people living in Northern Latitudes like England and other European nations that in winter the day time is much shorter than 12 hrs and people tend to lose average one hour on the time available for work . So the Governments decided to increase working hours during summer months from April to September by adding one hour to their standard time.

Thus one hour working time lost in winter was gained by working additional one hour in 6 months of summer.

In USA the same concept is known as day light saving time.

 In Vedic astrology the birth is taken from number of Ghatika’s past the local time of sun rise. Normally this is arrived at by Adding or deducting the difference in time between the local and Meridian or Standard time.

When Daylight saving time is present in the place of birth then an extra hour is deducted from the LMT arrived at to know the exact local sunrise time.

It becomes very difficult for the astrologers when the governments of different states as in USA keep changing the dates of observance of DST

Luckily the computer and Internet help Astrologers to keep abreast of these time changes

For an Indian astrologer casting a Nirayana Horoscope LMT of Sun rise is of vital importance to cast a correct chart. So he has to keep his data bank up to date irrespective of his place of residence on the Earth.

Accurate horoscope predictions based on Indian Astrology by ‘The Himalayan Ashram of Vedic Astrologers’ are available in the United States of America (US), Canada (CA), Australia (AU), New Zealand (NZ), South Africa (ZA), Japan (JP), Singapore (SG), Hong Kong (HK), Malaysia (MY), United Kingdom (England, UK), France (FR), Switzerland (CH) , Netherlands (NL), Norway (NO), Sweden (SE) and India (IN).