Consider the following statements:

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour from the Greenwich maritime during the summer.

India does not follow daylight saving time.

Canada is the first country to use DST on national level.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour from the standard time during the summer and back again in the autumn.
Daylight Saving Time usually starts in March-April and ends in September-November when the countries return to standard time, or winter time.
India does not follow daylight saving time as countries near the Equator do not experience high variations in daytime hours between seasons.
In the Southern Hemisphere the participating countries usually start the DST period in September-November and end DST in March-April.
For the first time in the world, the town of Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada implemented DST in 1908.
Germany started following DST since 1916 and became the first country in the world to use DST on a national level.

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Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour from the standard time during the summer and back again in the autumn.
Daylight Saving Time usually starts in March-April and ends in September-November when the countries return to standard time, or winter time.
India does not follow daylight saving time as countries near the Equator do not experience high variations in daytime hours between seasons.
In the Southern Hemisphere the participating countries usually start the DST period in September-November and end DST in March-April.
For the first time in the world, the town of Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada implemented DST in 1908.
Germany started following DST since 1916 and became the first country in the world to use DST on a national level.

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