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By then Britain and Germany had been fighting each other in World War I (1914-18), and a system that could ease the pressure on the economy was worth trying.
The Daylight Saving Time Act of 1916 was quickly passed by Parliament and on the first day of British Daylight Savings Time, May 21, 1916, it was widely reported in the press.
Back then, the hands of many of the clocks could not go back without breaking the mechanism. Instead, the owners had to advance the clock 11 hours when daylight savings time ended.
The Interior Ministry put up special posters telling people how to set their clocks to GMT, and national newspapers also gave advice.
Although Germany is commonly known as the first country to implement daylight saving time, Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada implemented it in 1908.
Willett is commemorated for his efforts by a commemorative sundial in nearby Petts Wood, permanently set in daylight saving time. The Daylight Inn in Petts Wood is named after him and there is a road called Willett Way.
What countries use daylight saving time?
The EU countries that sync their DST are France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Poland, as well as most other European countries, including the UK, Norway, and Switzerland. Some European countries don’t use it at all: Russia, Iceland, Georgia, Armenia, and Belarus.
In March 2019, the European Parliament endorsed a proposal to abolish the practice of clock change in 2021. While this was good news for some, it raised concerns about the implementation of a time zone border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit. . However, the Council of the European Union has not confirmed the final change and the two clock changes are still scheduled for March and October 2021.
Daylight saving time occurs in most US states and territories, except Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. This year, participating US states began daylight saving time at 2 am on Sunday, March 14.
From 1986 to 2006, daylight saving time in the United States began on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October. The current calendar for daylight saving time was introduced on August 8, 2005, however, when President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act.
Many countries in the northern hemisphere (north of the equator) observe daylight saving time, but not all. In the southern hemisphere, the participating countries start summer time between September and November and end between March and April.
Has the time difference always been one hour?
Today clocks are almost always backward or forward an hour, but throughout history there have been several variations, such as a half-setting (30 minutes) or double setting (two hours), and 20-and-minute settings have also been used. 40 minutes. A two-hour setting was used in various countries during the 1940s and elsewhere at times.
A medium setting was sometimes used in New Zealand in the first half of the 20th century.
Australia’s Lord Howe Island (UTC + 10: 30) follows a DST time in which clocks are moved 30 minutes ahead of UTC + 11, which is Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDT) during Australian daylight savings time. summer.
In 1940, during World War II, clocks in Britain were not turned back one hour to the end of daylight saving time. In subsequent years, clocks continued to advance one hour each spring and fall back one hour each fall until July 1945.
During these summers, therefore, Britain was two hours ahead of GMT and was trading British Double Summer Time (BDST).
The clocks were set to GMT in late summer 1945. In 1947, due to severe fuel shortages, clocks were turned forward one hour twice during the spring and backward one hour twice during the spring. fall, which means that Britain returned to the BDST during that summer.
Why we should ditch daylight saving time
Those who are against daylight saving time say it is unclear if any energy savings will be achieved, while there are also potential health risks.
Critics claim that the darkest mornings are dangerous for children who walk to school and the energy saving argument may not be valid if people turn on fans and air conditioning units during the warmer and lighter nights. (But this is unlikely to bother people in the UK.)
In 2011, Conservative MP Rebecca Harris introduced a bill calling for year-round electricity savings, but failed to complete its approval by Parliament before the end of the session and was scrapped.
A YouGov poll that same year found that 53 percent of Britons supported moving clocks forward one hour permanently, while 32 percent opposed the change.
The proposals were received less warmly by the Scottish population; Alex Salmond called the campaign an attempt to “plunge Scotland into the morning darkness” and his SNP colleague, MP Angus MacNeil, said any change would have “massive implications for the safety and well-being of all who live north of Manchester “.
“It is no secret that the conservatives in the south want to leave Scotland in the dark, but setting the clocks to British summer time would mean that sunrise in Scotland would not arrive until almost 9am,” he said.
He was right. After a trial from 1968 to 1971, when BST was used throughout the year, northern Scotland saw a net increase in the number of people killed or seriously injured.
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