2006-10-31 04:22:46 · 23 answers · asked by Ms Confused 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Supposedly because of the children going to school in the morning. The clocks are put back in the Autumn so it is an hour lighter and will be light when the children go to school so it is safer for them to travel to school and as they are out by 4pm they can get home before its dark. I think they put forward in the Spring to so we get long summer evenings. In the summer it gets light very early in morning, it is usually light when I go to work at 5 am.
2006-11-02 04:57:23 · answer #1 · answered by patsy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called daylight saving i think. The main reason the clocks are put forward in Autumn is so that it is light enough for kids and others to go to work and school in light and not the dark. it is done for safety reasons. [ i think] but you cannot fool my dogs they know when their feeding times are. They usually get fed at 5 but now with the clocks back and hour it is difficult to explain to them that it is 4 now and not 5 o' clock.
2006-11-02 12:14:55 · answer #2 · answered by Duisend-poot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It started during the First world war to give the farmers more daylight to work in, during the second world war the country was on double summer time so farmers had more time to get the crops in, after the war it reverted back to a 1 hour change as has remained since.
2006-11-03 16:45:11 · answer #3 · answered by Jacqueline M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We put the clocks back one hour in Autumn so that we have more daylight in the morning, & in Spring we go back to normal again by putting them foreward one hour.
2006-10-31 12:32:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as the winter months have less hours of daylight we put our clocks back so that our farmers can carry on producing to there maximum this way its still light between 9 and 5
this is not a guess like some of the other answers check any agricultural website its a big event in there calender
2006-10-31 12:27:33 · answer #5 · answered by daft lad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when the 'learned men' determined when 'noon' was they did it during a winters day. If they had used a spring day or autumn/fall day then we probably wouldn't bother to add any time in summer or deduct any time for winter as it would only be half an hour.
2006-10-31 12:26:57 · answer #6 · answered by Bill(56 yrs old) 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's suppose to save energy, the idea is that you will not turn lights on until later in the summer. But I don't buy it, with air conditioning we are using a lot of power in the summer. I do like having the extra hour of daylight after work in the summer though. So in that sense it is cool.
2006-10-31 12:26:13 · answer #7 · answered by Yo it's Me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Each day isn't actually 24 hrs, it is 23hrs and 56 minutes. So our clocks get off on actual correspondence between what we say the hour is and where the sun is. It is most apparent when we are losing daylight (autum) and gaining daylight (spring).
2006-10-31 16:52:35 · answer #8 · answered by Shanna J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To save energy. To adapt the hours of light to our working cycle.
2006-11-04 00:07:17 · answer #9 · answered by Dr. J. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no word of a lie.
a guy a few hundred years ago didnt like the fact that when he rode his horse in the morning it was getting darker and darker.
he was the 1st to change the time by one hour and it evenually caught on. (im guessing he was influencial, but I cant remember who he was)
2006-10-31 12:28:27 · answer #10 · answered by matthew.armstrong 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋