What year was new time first introduced.?

Question

The clocks went back last night. My friend says old time and new time has always been around and that it was never any different. Could you viewers settle this argument. I understood it to be only one time which is old time and and clocks were left at this time and never altered.

Answer 1

Daylight Saving Time, or Summer Time as it is known in Britain, was invented by William Willett (1857 - 1915), who was a London builder living in Petts Wood in Kent. In 1907 he circulated a pamphlet to many Members of Parliament, town councils, businesses and other organisations, he outlined that for nearly half the year the sun shines upon the land for several hours each day while we are asleep, and is rapidly nearing the horizon, having already passed its western limit, when we reach home from work before it is over.

His proposal was to improve health and happiness by advancing the clocks twenty minutes on each of four Sundays in April, and by reversing this idea by the same amount on four Sundays in September. He reckoned that it would not only improve health and Happiness but it would save the country £2 1/2 million pounds, that was also taking into account the loss of earnings to the producers of artificial light.

Though the scheme was ridiculed and met with considerable opposition a Daylight Saving Bill was introduced in 1909, though it met with no success before war broke out.

In April, 1916, Daylight Saving Time was introduced as a wartime measure of economy, not only in Britain but, within a week or so, in nearly all countries, both allied and enemy. Sadly, William had died the previous year so never saw his idea put into effect.

Most countries abandoned Daylight Saving Time after the war had finished , most reintroduced it eventually, and some even began to keep it throughout the year.

In 1968 to 1971 Britain tried the experiment of keeping BST - to be called British Standard Time - throughout the year, largely for commercial reasons because Britain would then conform to the time kept by other European Countries. This was not good for the school children of Scotland as it meant they had to always go to School in the dark. The experiment was eventually abandoned in 1972, Britain has kept GMT in winter and BST in summer.
Hope this is of interest to you and answers your question. :o)

Answer 2

Daylight Saving Time (ie Summer Time) from which we have just put the clocks back, was introduced in April 1916 as an economic move to help the war effort. (Its interesting to note that pub licensing hours were also introduced at this time for the same reason and never revoked)

It had long been recognised that we lose a lot of sunlight hours if the clocks stayed the same all year.

Between 1968 and 1971 Britain experimented with scrapping Daylight Saving, but reverted back to it by popular demand in 1972.

Most countries have also adopted Daylight Saving.

See the "greenwichmeantime" link for more info

Answer 3

If by "new time" you mean the current calendar, It was issued in a Papal Bull in 1582, because the old Julian calendar had fallen a week behind the movement of the sun.

Gregory XIII did this to correct the calculations of Holy Days, but the Protestants ignored it and went on with the Julian for centuries sort of out of defiance.

It was not adopted by the British Parliament until 1750, causing the masses to think their lives had been abbreviated by 11 days, and tore things up for a while in the "Give us back our eleven days" riots. No riots ensued in the colonies, but we changed our dates too.

The Russians, as an Orthodox state, and because by Tsars were generally indisposed toward changes of any kind, kept the Augustan system of dating things. If you read modern translated text they are all dated OS (old style) or NS (new style). Old style is 12 days behind the new style by 1917.

The system of Daylight saving was introduced during the Second World War when Roosevelt was president. Its purpose was to lengthen the day for over-time work and greater industrial production. It worked well enough that we produced three entire navies each larger than any on the glob in the years after Pearl Harbor.

Be proud.

Answer 4

The idea of changing the clocks goes back to around 1907 in Britain and the main architect for change was William Willet.
In April 1916 Britain adopted the Daylight Savings Act or SUMMERTIME as it became known.
Since 1916 with a few variations, Britain and Ireland have changed the time in Spring and Autum each year.

Answer 5

I think that this may be something to do with the fact that for certain purposes we always refer to GMT -- Greenwich Mean Time -- which never alters. GMT is the time we go by in winter and BST British Summer Times is an invented time, introduced by the then Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1908. My mother quoted someone she knew as always differentiating between "God's time" and "David Lloyd George's time" when discussing the hour of day! One gets the feeling that in the early days at least it was slow to catch on!

Answer 6

I was given to understand the clock changes were first introduced during WW1 to give the farmers more daylight to harvest the crops

Answer 7

It came about during the war years, when the clocks went forward it allowed them longer time harvest any crops that they had.

Answer 8

It was started when ww2 started to give more lengh of daylight
for the war effort

Answer 9

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