daylight savings time sucks big time

[FatherCoolOfHMCommonwealth]

i mean, how long ago was it?? and ds is waking at 5 to 5:30 instead of 6 to 6:30.... and i wish i was dead!

i mean, he's a crap sleeper anyway without the added crap of daylight bloody savings bloody time.

just a little mini rant.

What I've always wondered is this-

When the daylight saving thing was first ever invented(??? can't think of the right word there), was it forward or backwards?

I always wonder that.

it's probably a really easy and obvious answer too but I'm so thick to find out.

yes... and i'm too lazy to find out!

early morning waking makes him weird as well. he just keeps saying no no no no no! and i've asked him what he wants over and over again and he doesn't seem to want anything. juice, another show, brekky, cars, trains... nothing. its driving me mad.

oh... i see. TMI probably but he wants to 'make' but wants me to leave the room so he can get some privacy. off i go (i wish he'd use that potty we got him the other day). sorry, too much information before 7am.

ok I will bore you with my fact!!
It was so the farmers could work later during the war!

but dir it go back or forwards first?

That's what I need to know.

back I think..dunno
But that would give them lighter evenings. But why we need it now I dont know..cant it stop now?

I think they actually had double saving during the war, though not sure which way!

The idea of it was announced a while before it caught on, as it took a lot of organising.

why cant it stop now though?

I think they tried something different about 1967-68 but I'm sure it involved getting dark earlier..might be mistaken

unless it was to do with strikes

I can't believe my memory there

SUMMER TIMEThe idea of summer time, or daylight saving time, was first suggested in a whimsicalarticle by Benjamin Franklin in 1784. In 1907 an Englishman, William Willettcampaigned to advance clocks by 80 minutes, by 4 moves of 20 minutes at thebeginning of the spring and summer months and to return to Greenwich Mean Time(GMT) in a similar manner in the autumn. In 1908 the House of Commons rejected aBill to advance the clocks by one hour during the spring and summer months.Summer time was first defined in an Act of 1916 that ordained that for a certainperiod during the year legal time should be one hour in advance of GMT. TheSummer Time Acts of 1922 to 1925 extended the period during which summer timewas in force and so, from 1916 up to the Second World War, clocks were put inadvance of GMT by one hour from the spring to the autumn.During the Second World War, double summer time (2 hours in advance of GMT)was introduced and was used for the period when, normally ordinary summer timewould have been in force. During the winter clocks were kept one hour in advance ofGMT. After the war, summer time was invoked each year from 1948 to 1967. In 1968clocks were advanced one hour ahead of GMT on 18 February and remained so untilBritish Standard Time, during which clocks were kept in advance of GMT all year,came into force between 27 October 1968 and 31 October 1971.The Summer Time Act 1972 defined the period of British Summer Time to start at02.00 GMT on the morning of the day after the third Saturday in March or, if that wasEaster Day, the day after the second Saturday. It was to end at 02.00 GMT on theday after the fourth Saturday in October. The duration of British Summer Time can bevaried by Order of Council and in recent years has been changed so as to bring thedate of the start of Summer Time into line with that used in Europe.The rule for 1981?1994 defined the start of summer time in the UK as the lastSunday in March and the end as the day following the fourth Saturday in October.The time of change was altered to 01.00 GMT.There was no rule for the dates of summer time for the years 1995, 1996 and 1997,but the ad-hoc dates were:199526 March to 22 October199631 March to 27 October199730 March to 26 Ocotberall changes taking place at 01.00 GMTThe European Union has now adopted The Ninth European Parliament and CouncilDirective on Summer Time Arrangements in which it states that summer (or daylightsaving) time will be kept between the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday inOctober. The changes will take place at 01.00 GMT. The dates are:National Maritime Museum - Summer timewww.nmm.ac.uk/server.php?show=conWebDoc.344- 1 -
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199829 March to 25 October199928 March to 31 October200026 March to 29 October200125 March to 28 October200231 March to 27 October200330 March to 26 October200428 March to 31 October200527 March to 30 October200626 March to 29 October200725 March to 28 OctoberThese dates have since been confirmed by the UK Parliament for the UK andNorthern Ireland.Some people advocate that summer time is kept all year round but this is opposed byother groups on the grounds that in the north this would have social disadvantagesincluding, for instance, the problem that in the far north-west of Scotland sunrisewould occur at about 10.00 in the middle of winter and over much of the north smallchildren would have to travel to/from school in darkness.Many countries around the world use daylight saving time, including the USA,Russia, most of Europe and the Commonwealth.The main reasons given for the use of summer time are the saving in power given bythe longer hours of daylight in the evenings and the increased useful daylight leisuretime available to those who work.National Maritime Museum - Summer timewww.nmm.ac.uk/server.php?show=conWebDoc.344- 2 -