stop the clock
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Most school leavers are pretty much in the dark even after 10 years schooling 
I was taught that the original reason was to give farmers more daylight... but now I think about it that's ridiculous as they always relied on the cockerel didn't they? Pretty sure chickens don't put their clocks forwards!
I reckon it's for morale, just to give us all a little lift during the darker months. There's no more bank holidays left and no chance of sunshine, but at least we get an extra hour in bed one weekend!
I reckon it's for morale, just to give us all a little lift during the darker months. There's no more bank holidays left and no chance of sunshine, but at least we get an extra hour in bed one weekend!
ROFLMAO
We don't get any more daylight donk, we just shift the time forward or backward.
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breezer
Thats not quite right!
We do get more daylight, its something to do with how close we are to the sun now as opposed to in the summer.
Yes in the winter we get shorter daylight hours but moving the clock doesn't alter how many hours of daylight we get, just when we get it.
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breezer
now you are taking the P
what about June 21st? equinox, where daylight and absence of daylight are exactly the same duration.
we get less light when the clocks change
what about June 21st? equinox, where daylight and absence of daylight are exactly the same duration.
we get less light when the clocks change
If we get 6 hrs of daylight tomorrow by putting the clocks back an hour we still only get 6 hours.
Don't start 
The moving of the clock was invented in 1907 by a builder named William Willet, (or something like that). He pettisioned parliament, saying sunshine hours were lost whilst people slept, and at the end of a normal work shift the sun was about on the horizon. Although they agreed with him nothing was done until, in April, 1916,
Daylight Saving Time was introduced as a wartime measure of economy, not only in Britain but, within a week or so, in nearly all countries, both allied and enemy. Sadly, William had died the previous year so never saw his idea put into effect.
Most countries abandoned Daylight Saving Time after the war had finished , most reintroduced it eventually, and some even began to keep it throughout the year.
In 1968 to 1971 Britain tried the experiment of keeping BST - to be called British Standard Time - throughout the year, largely for commercial reasons because Britain would then conform to the time kept by other European Countries.
This was not good for the school children of Scotland as it meant they had to always go to School in the dark. The experiment was eventually abandoned in 1972, Britain has kept GMT in winter and BST in summer.
Daylight Saving Time was introduced as a wartime measure of economy, not only in Britain but, within a week or so, in nearly all countries, both allied and enemy. Sadly, William had died the previous year so never saw his idea put into effect.
Most countries abandoned Daylight Saving Time after the war had finished , most reintroduced it eventually, and some even began to keep it throughout the year.
In 1968 to 1971 Britain tried the experiment of keeping BST - to be called British Standard Time - throughout the year, largely for commercial reasons because Britain would then conform to the time kept by other European Countries.
This was not good for the school children of Scotland as it meant they had to always go to School in the dark. The experiment was eventually abandoned in 1972, Britain has kept GMT in winter and BST in summer.
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