Genuine Question: Why is the clock in UK changes in spring? This time, its 1 hour advanced.
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It all goes back to farming, and giving farmers more daylight to work on the land. Up until about 1840ish, each region on the UK had it's own local time. If you lived on one side of a mountain the sun would appear to rise earlier than on the other side of the mountain - where you were in it's shadow. So the people living in the shadow would naturally get up later! As we became more mechanised with the onset of trains and the industrial revolution, the poor old farmers were having to get up in the dark. So, by agreeing to move the clocks forward (6am becomes 7am) they would have more daylight earlier in the day (daylight saving). So this, tied to the industrial revolution and standardising time against Greenwich (Greenwich Mean Time) meant the farmers, communities and later the world, would work to a time standard. By the way, Greenwich isn't where the day actually begins. It's an island in the middle of the pacific. As usual, the elite British colonised time.
I read about this every 6 months. It can make a fun class. Basically it went like this. Daylight saving time was invented by George Hudson in New Zealand in 1985, however it took a while to catch on. Then in 1914, world war I broke out. Countries started using it to increase war production and save resources. Essentially, people would use less lamp oil to see early in the morning and thus, there would be more oil for war machines. Many countries adopted this policy since. however there has been a decline in the last 2 decades.
The clocks in the UK (and in Europe) go forward in the summer to allow the farmers and farmworkers more time to tend to and harvest their crops. GMT was chosen as the benchmark for world time at the Paris conference because the UK was the first country to develop standardised time (also known as "railway time") so that the railways ran punctually and safely. Standardised time was adopted in other countries for exactly the same reason. Global time zones were also conceptualized and developed by the British because of horologist John Harrison, who invented the Harrison Maritime Timekeeper, a highly accurate clock that meant that sailors could accurately navigate the world's oceans, and had absolutely nothing to do with elites or colonialism.
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It is a practice known as Daylight saving time or DST! It involves moving the clock forward by one hour during the spring and moving it back one hour during the autumn! If you like the answer...You can just book a class with me! We will discuss more about such topics!
Not just in the UK, I think it's in a huge number of countries including mine, Bosnia and Herzegovina and I've read they're planning to stop with this in the future.
for DST(daylight saving time)
surly It is for using most time of daylight.
It is to try and get the most amount of daylight hours.
It happens too in Morocco.
The clock is moved forward in spring for people to enjoy longer evenings with more daylight. This also reduces the need for artificial lighting and saves energy.
