Tomorrow sees the clocks leap forward for the start of daylight savings time, but if I’m honest I don’t really know why we have to change our clocks twice a year (I do however enjoy the idea of getting an extra hour in bed when they go back again).
I’m sure that I can remember hearing on the news a few years ago about a town/village within the UK who refused to change their clocks and stayed on GMT, I’m not too sure I could live with the confusion of which time zone I was supposed to be following.
I’ve come across a great infographic from Tempur which sheds the light on why we have daylight savings time…
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Did you know that the idea of Daylight Savings Time was first thought up by Benjamin Franklin in 1784?
And from 1986-1971 Britain stayed one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time for 3 years in a row? The period was dubbed ‘permanent summer’ although I expect the British weather was not so different from today![/box]
Source: Tempur
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