The list below shows an (incomplete) overview over countries that plan to observe DST (also called summer time. When DST is not observed, it is called STANDARD TIME, NORMAL TIME or WINTER TIME) during 2009.

More detailed information  for the second half of 2009 is available on this page.

Please also check Wikipedia for general information about DST:
Daylight saving time
Daylight saving time around the world

- Guatemala is divided into 22 departments (departamentos):

1. El Petén (Flores)
2. Huehuetenango (Huehuetenango)
3. El Quiché (Santa Cruz del Quiché)
4. Alta Verapaz (Cobán)
5. Izabal (Puerto Barrios)
6. San Marcos (San Marcos)
7. Quetzaltenango (Quetzaltenango)
8. Totonicapán (Totonicapán)
9. Baja Verapaz (Salamá)
10. El Progreso (Guastatoya)
11. Zacapa (Zacapa)
12. Sololá (Sololá)
13. Chimaltenango (Chimaltenango)
14. Sacatepéquez (Antigua Guatemala)
15. Guatemala (Guatemala-Stadt)
16. Jalapa (Jalapa)
17. Chiquimula (Chiquimula)
18. Retalhuleu (Retalhuleu)
19. Suchitepéquez (Mazatenango)
20. Escuintla (Escuintla)
21. Santa Rosa (Cuilapa)
22. Jutiapa (Jutiapa)

- Administratively, Jamaica is divided into 14 parishes:

1     Hanover (Lucea)
2     Saint Elizabeth (Black River)
3     Saint James (Montego Bay)
4     Trelawny (Falmouth)
5     Westmoreland (Savanna-la-Mar)
6     Clarendon (May Pen)
7     Manchester (Mandeville)
8     Saint Ann (Saint Ann’s Bay)
9     Saint Catherine (Spanish Town)
10     Saint Mary (Port Maria)
11     Kingston (parish) (Kingston)
12     Portland (Port Antonio)
13     Saint Andrew (Half Way Tree)
14     Saint Thomas (Morant Bay)

- Kuwait is divided into 6 governorates (muhafazah):

Al Ahmadi (Al Ahmadi)
Al Asimah (Al Kuwayt) (Al Kuwait)
Al Farwaniyah (Al Farwaniyah)
Al Jahra (Al Jahra)
Hawalli (Hawalli District)
Mubarak Al-Kabeer (Mubarak Al-Kabeer)

- Lebanon is divided into 6 governorates (muhafazah), listed with their capitals in parentheses:

1. Beirut (Beirut)
2. Mount Lebanon (Baabda)
3. North (Tripoli)
4. Beqaa (Zahleh)
5. Nabatiye (Nabatiye)
6. South (Sidon)

- Monaco is the second smallest principality in Europe, as well as the second smallest country in the world; only Vatican City is smaller. The state consists of only 1 municipality (commune). Currently the principality is subdivided into 10 wards:

1. Monaco-Ville (Old City with palace)
2. Monte Carlo/Spélugues (Bd. Des Moulins-Av. de la Madone) (the casino and resort area)
3. La Rousse/Saint Roman (Annonciade-Château Périgord) (in the northeast, incl. Le Ténao)
4. Larvotto/Bas Moulins (Larvotto-Bd Psse Grace) (eastern beach area)
5. Saint Michel (Psse Charlotte-Park Palace) (central residential area)
6. La Condamine (port area in the northwest)
7. La Colle (Plati-Pasteur-Bd Charles III) (on the western border with Cap d’Ail)
8. Les Révoires (Hector Otto-Honoré Labande) (containing the Jardin Exotique)
9. Moneghetti/ Bd de Belgique (Bd Rainier III-Bd de Belgique)
10. Fontvieille (new land reclaimed from the sea)

Source: Wikipedia 2009

As you can see the belodged.com community is quite well balanced over the majority of 136 countries (please note the calendar date of this post). The reason why Germany is relatively over-represented in this list is the fact that many members from the former globiwalk.com website wished to be transfered to the newer belodged.com portal. Little Switzerland on Rank 6 is quite surprising, ok, but it is less if you consider the circumstance of having the core development team living in the heart of Europe for the time being… ;o)

Rank 1 – 17.3% :  Germany
Rank 2 – 5.2%:     United States
Rank 3 – 4.1%:     Spain
Rank 4 – 3.4%:     India
Rank 5 – 3.4%:     Russia
Rank 6 – 3.2%:     Switzerland
Rank 7 – 3.1%:     France
Rank 8 – 2.9%:     Argentina
Rank 9 – 2.7%:     China
Rank 10-2.7%:     Mexico

All in all belodged.com ‘globalizes’ more and more…
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…yeah, step by step the country database fills up with administrative divisions, all gathered from wikipedia…

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