Winter time will officially arrive at 2am on Sunday, 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.
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