#102: Daylight Saving Time

 

In 70 countries around the world we change the time twice a year, giving us longer evenings in summer.

Why did we start doing this? Why do some people love it, others hate it, and will we ever stop doing it altogether?

• Early ideas about timekeeping
• Romans & hours that were longer or shorter than 60 minutes
• When every town had its own time zone
• The invention of standard time zones
• The Earth's tilt and the reason days are longer and shorter by season
• The proposals to create Daylight Saving Time: collecting insects & playing golf
• Starting to use Daylight Saving Time
• Daylight Saving Time in the 20th century
• Reasons to keep Daylight Saving Time: wellbeing, reducing crime, reducing accidents, businesses that benefit from it
• Reasons to get rid of Daylight Saving Time: doesn't save energy, it's annoying to change, lost productivity, health disadvantages, businesses that don't like it
• Farmers in the north of Scotland
• When the UK kept Daylight Saving Time all year round
• Complications with Daylight Saving Time when communicating between time zones
• Getting rid of Daylight Saving Time?
• Changing the clocks twice a year at the Queen's residences

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