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The clocks go forward on Mothers Day - 30 March
NO chance of an extra hour in bed for many of our nation's mothers, as daylight saving time (DST) starts on Sunday (30 March 2025). Currently, about 70 countries worldwide adopt some form of daylight saving, mainly in Europe and North America, and the UK is one of them. But just count yourselves lucky as in back in 2012, a move was made to:- 'save energy and increase the time available in the evenings' by the UK with a Private Members' Bill (Ballot Bill) called:- "The Daylight Saving Bill" that if passed would have seen us returning to British Double Summer Time, that would have meant all of us in the UK putting the clocks back by 2 hours! Thankfully, this resulted in a backbench, and it was not passed by the House of Commons.
Please remember on Mother's Day, 30 March 2025, clocks go forward by 1 hour at 2am and will go back 1 hour on:- 26 October 2025, at 2am... Did you know that:- British Summer Time (BST) or as it is sometimes called:- Daylight Saving Time was introduced in the UK in 1916, along with many other nations involved in the World War 1 (1914 to 1918) after Germany became the 1st country to adopt daylight saving time a few weeks prior? Oddly, the idea of summer time or daylight saving time was mentioned as far back as 1784, by an American inventor, scientist and statesman called:-Benjamin Franklin. This idea never took hold, and it wasn't until 1907 when an angry William Willett made a serious proposal for daylight saving time was made in Britain by William Willett. He felt the extra hour in Summer would stop the:- "Waste of Daylight..." Today, in the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October. Useful Dates:-
Odd fact... The 1st recorded invention of any time of clock was the creation of the water clock by the Egyptians or Babylonians in the 14th Century BCE. COMMENTS (0)
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