UK clocks go back...?

Question

what exactly is the point in this? What is gained by making it darker earlier in the winter? Is there a valid reason for this?

Answer 1

We've been changing our clocks forwards and backwards in the UK since 1916. It's all to do with saving the hours of daylight, and was started by a man called William Willett, a London builder, who lived in Petts Wood in Kent.



William Willett first proposed the idea of British Summer Time in 1907 in a pamphlet entitled 'The Waste of Daylight'. Willett had noticed that the summer mornings light was wasted while people slept, and that the time would be better utilised in the afternoon by putting the clocks forward. After campaigning for years the British Government finally adopted the system a year after Willett's death.

Answer 2

well actually it makes it lighter earlier in winter. It gives us more 'daylight' hours during the normal 'working' day so that we're not all wandering around in the dark.



EDIT:



Ok.. lets break this down. The clock changes are specifically for summer, to give us the most sunlight during the day in summer, hence why it's called British Summer Time (over here) and Daylight Savings time everywhere else.



So firstly, when the clocks go back for Winter, they are actually returning to the correct time, in summer the time is 1 hour ahead.



Today Sunrise was at 06:56am, if we were still on BST it would have been at 07:56am, meaning that it is now lighter, earlier.



It also means that it is darker earlier in the evening, but this is 'normal' time, not the +1 hour for BST.. there's nothing we can really do about the fact we only get jusrt short of 10 hours sunlight today, but I think having it from 7:00 - 17:00 seems about the right time to have it, given when everyone works/goes to school etc.

Answer 3

The original idea was to make better use of daylight to suit working times, ie most work places start at 8am, so it this will make a big difference if you work on say a construction site outdoors, farmers do a lot of moaning about the clocks going back/forward, but its not like you are reducing the amount of daylight just moving it around...dont why dont Farmers just get up to suit the daylight hours beats me

Answer 4

you're no longer dropping an hour of your existence. you will get it lower back interior the fall while the clocks go lower back. I make the present time to be GMT+a million. in simple terms before international conflict a million (or thereabouts) all of us caught to Greenwich recommend Time (GMT). it fairly is the 'organic' time for super Britain (for eire the 'organic' time could be GMT-a million hour). organic time is the time foundation the place the solar is Due South at 12 midday. All British sundials are calibrated to GMT. 'summer season time' became presented as a wartime project. pay attention. If critical eu Time (CET) is proficient which would be GMT+2 in summer season and GMT=a million in wintry climate. human beings interior the united kingdom who stay north of Watford or West of analyzing will go through very dark mornings in wintry climate (first gentle at 10 am) and it won't get dark till virtually hour of darkness in summer season (noisy barbeques from thoughtless neighbours once you're attempting to sleep). of direction, Londoners and politicians could fairly like CET yet farmers, notherners and West country human beings will hate it.

Answer 5

we move our clocks back so that



in the mornings when the children are walking to school it is light for them - so they not talking in the dark



and when they come out at night, it is still light.



If we didnt put them back with will be dark in the mornings and very dark in the nights when they come home and anything can happen



the UK peeps are very smart

Answer 6

For the first time in nearly a month I left home to get to the bus stop in day light - I leave home at 6.45 am each morning. In a month's time (late November) I'll be leaving home and getting home in the dark again.

Answer 7

In the US time changed allowed farmers to have a extra hour to work in fields in the spring time. We change ours back this coming week end the 31s, when does the UK change?

Answer 8

they went back 1 hr yesterday

Answer 9

So that it's brighter when children are going to and home from school.