Mucking About With The Clocks
Oct. 27th, 2024 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo British Summer Time is over- and the clocks went back last night.
BST was introduced in 1916 with the aim of improving industrial efficiency- though I've never understood how this was supposed to work. By now- over a hundred years later- I think we just carry on out of habit. There was a hiatus from 1968 to 1972 (which I'd completely forgotten about) when British Summer Time was retained through the winter months . I don't know why this experiment was abandoned. The obvious thing would be to go back to Greenwich Mean Time and stick with it all year round, but for some reason government is afraid of going there.
Does it matter? I suppose not. But if everyone finds this monkeying around with clock time as unsettling as I do that's a whole lot of anxiety that could be avoided.
BST was introduced in 1916 with the aim of improving industrial efficiency- though I've never understood how this was supposed to work. By now- over a hundred years later- I think we just carry on out of habit. There was a hiatus from 1968 to 1972 (which I'd completely forgotten about) when British Summer Time was retained through the winter months . I don't know why this experiment was abandoned. The obvious thing would be to go back to Greenwich Mean Time and stick with it all year round, but for some reason government is afraid of going there.
Does it matter? I suppose not. But if everyone finds this monkeying around with clock time as unsettling as I do that's a whole lot of anxiety that could be avoided.
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