UK Clock goes back 1 hour today

                                 

Winter time officially arrived at 2am this morning, as the clocks make their annual leap back one hour to return to Greenwich Mean Time.

The good news is that it meant an extra hour in bed and not waking up in the dark in the morning. But the bad news is that it means the dark winter evenings are here at last.

But we haven’t always had to cope with the clock change.

The idea of British Summer Time, otherwise known as Daylight Saving Time, was first introduced by English builder William Willett in 1907, in a bid to save people from wasting valuable hours of light during summer mornings.

The enterprising Briton published a pamphlet called ‘The Waste of Daylight’, attempting to persuade people that it was a good idea to get out of bed earlier by putting clocks across the nation forward at the start of spring.