Don’t forget.
The clocks go back 100 years this weekend.
Via Irish light bulb makers Solus:
The clocks go back in the early hours of Sunday October 30th at 2am, it marks 100 years since the concept of ‘daylight saving’ was introduced in Ireland under British rule.
Every year the clocks go forward an hour in March and back an hour in October but according to a new survey carried out by olus, 63% of Irish people would prefer if the practice was abolished…
When asked why the clocks go back, 83% of respondents cited day light saving and to benefit school children, energy efficiency and community, 13% believe it is to signal the end of summer, 1% quite rightly mentioned it is because William Willet wanted to play more golf
It was, in fact, the great-great-grandfather of Coldplay rocker Chris Martin – William Willet – that first introduced the concept of ‘daylight saving’ in 1907 and he actually was a keen golfer.
FIGHT!
They tried it in approx. 1970 and there was a lot of chattering about childer going to school in the dark. Imagine how much more there’d be today. The fact that they could go home in better light and even play out for a while didn’t seem to cpmpensate.
All kids seem to be driven to school these days
The change is in the summer not the winter.
It makes the evening longer in summer, basically moving an hour of brightness from dawn to dusk.
The winter time is GMT
The summer time is GMT+1
Nothing to do with schools, that was just talk by pub philosophers trying to make up a reasonable answer without knowing the facts.
British Summer Time(GMT+1) was in force all year during the Second World War from February 1940 until October 1945 and again from February 1968 until October 1971. Double summer time (GMT+2) was in force in the summers from 1941-1947 except for 1946.
Don’t know if Ireland followed war-time time
On the shortest day sunset is at 4.08pm this year, with daylight saving. 5.08pm without. Am I alone in not giving a monkeys? Its grim either way.
You have that backwards
lived in Sweden for 7 years, daytime is the 2 hours around lunch, but always bright and dry with the snow,
Ireland is more grim in the wet cold and damp….
Unspeakably grim, best not talk about it so.
Will they never see the light? We are Europeans, after all.
is that why Chris Martin has been putting us to sleep for yrs?
Hehe
Morrissey’s great-great-grandfather invented an everlasting lightbulb but Solus had him assassinated.
He wrote a song about that, right?
Whatever makes me less likely to have to get up in the dark I will support
If they abolished DST in Ireland, wouldn’t that mean sunrise would be later in the morning, say around 9.30am.
Now THAT is something worth repealing.
Given that daylight saving ends this weekend, not starts, I imagine it’s 100.5 years since the practice was introduced. This post seems to be confusing the benefits of putting the clocks forward with the practice of putting them back again.
+1 the real benefit, if longer evenings is what people want, would be to keep daylight savings all year round.
Clocks will be clocks.
That what they’re supposed to be.
Does anybody know what day it is?
-feels like Friday, sounds like Sunday. I give up.
The change in 70’s was quickly abolished, when it was discovered that daylight
appeared after 9.00 am in the morning, the reality is that every15 Degress west
of Greenwich, the Sun rises a hour later, the idea was first mooted by some
one who wanted to play golf in the evenings back in 1907, the problem should
not arise now, the courses could be lit up, even the balls could be luminous.
The fact that a light bulb manufacturer is campaigning against it would lead me to believe that daylight saving delivers economies in energy consumption.
I’m captured on a nightclub’s CCTV at 01:32am, having a drink at the bar with a friend. We leave the 30 mins later, at 02:02am. We walk for 28 minutes whilst trying to hail a taxi. We pass a Topaz and rob it blind at 02:32am. The CCTV in the Topaz is timestamped 01:32am because the clocks went back. The cops charge me with robbery, but I counter with stills of me in a nightclub at 01:32am. I am released into society by the Judge, free to gorge on protein shakes and packets of Monster Munch. Screw you Denis O’Brien.