why do the clocks get put back an hour in winter and forward an hour in summer?

Answer 1

We do it to get the most daylight possible at any time of year, Check out the Website below for lots more info...

Answer 2

Actually, winter has the correct time - Greenwich Mean Time (or UTC, Universal Time Clock) in the UK.
So, the clocks go forward by 1 hour in the Summer (last Sunday in March untill the last Sunday in October) to give more daylight in the evenings, and thus saving energy etc etc

Answer 3

In the United Kingdom the preference, when a daylight saving scheme has been operable, has been for standard time to be used during the winter, with clocks moving forward during the summer.

Starting in 1916, the dates for the beginning and end of BST each year were mandated by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In February 2002, the The Summer Time Order 2002[4] permanently changed the dates and times to match European rules for moving to and from daylight saving time. The European compromise was closer to previous British practice than to the practice elsewhere in Europe.

Answer 4

im not actually positive but when they go forward at the beginning of summer, this makes the sunrise at an earlier time and the opposite is true for the clocks going back.
i think they call it daylight saving.

Answer 5

confident, there are a number of issues... - Going out to Sonoma in late June for the NASCAR races... - Our youngest coming domicile after her Plebe Cruise as a Midshipman on a million July, and then spending 4 weeks with us earlier returning to the U. S. Naval Academy. - Our annual 4th of July Parade on the city, and then our BBQ right here on the Ranch... we had seventy 5 people out final 365 days, and plan for something comparable. - Loading up the pony trailer and going to the each year "Brother's Reunion" at Donner Lake... seeing my 3 brothers and their households... a extreme-high quality weekend on the lake, celebrating my 2 older brothers' birthdays on the top of July. - "huge and wealthy" in stay overall performance on the Ironstone Vineyards 'down the line' on Aug. 10. and of direction, i'm finding forward to the top of summer and that is evil warmth... getting all our vegetation and convey in, the wine pressed and turning out to be older, the animals fattened and offered. the element i seem forward to maximum... is the rain that finally indicators the top of summer.

Answer 6

its called daylight savings time, it was first implemented by benjamin franklin to help farmers cultivate their crops. giving them more daylight earlier in the morning. it gets changed back during winter as to not screw up out time systems.

Answer 7

yep that's right to make the daylight work in our favour (ie that we get lighter evenings in the summer). even tho t makes us tired this is a very good thing. living in a place that is always dark by 8.00pm really does suck!

Answer 8

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