What is “daylight saving” time?
t’s a legacy of the First World War that’s still with us a century on. The original idea for British Summer Time came from a well-connected Edwardian builder, William Willett. He argued – in a 1907 pamphlet called – that moving daylight hours from morning to evening in summer by putting the clocks forward would improve health, happiness and productivity. His idea made it as far as parliament, where a Daylight Saving Bill was ridiculed and roundly defeated in 1909. But the idea of daylight saving time (DST) was taken up by Germany in
