2007-10-27 22:22:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
To avoid clashing with the date change at midnight.
2007-10-27 23:46:36 · answer #1 · answered by monsewer icks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because its more or less the least inconvenient time - the majority of people are at home in bed at 2am on a Saturday (the one still out are so drunk they dont know any different) very few people are working, or travelling. So we can just change them before we go to bed or after we get up without it being inconvenient eg having to work an extra hour.
2007-10-28 05:26:56 · answer #2 · answered by jeanimus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Changing the clock at 2 or 3 am avoids problems of having too many (or too few) date changes. Also, fewer people are up at 2am, so it's less of a problem for people.
2007-10-28 08:57:57 · answer #3 · answered by Asher S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have to change the date as well if you did it at midnight
2007-10-28 09:49:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it would change the day. if the clocks went back at any time b4 1am then at the moment of change over it would suddenly be saturday again
2007-10-29 07:21:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To avoid confusion; if they were turned back at midnight it would be 11PM the previous day!
2007-10-31 17:00:36 · answer #6 · answered by James 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The time when London Underground trains stopped running.
2007-10-28 18:06:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A government bureaucrat didn't know how to spell midnight.
2007-10-28 17:21:27 · answer #8 · answered by rann_georgia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is done at the time of least human activity, 2am is supposedly when most people are asleep or doing very little...
2007-10-28 05:27:19 · answer #9 · answered by McCanns are guilty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
has to do with people and their work schedules and bars being open that kind of stuff . they picked 2 because most of that is over or if graveyard shift it wont really affect anything.
2007-10-28 22:42:26 · answer #10 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋