The clocks go back in the UK

In the early hours of Sunday 25th October 2015 the clocks went back an hour as the UK reverted back to Greenwich Mean Time. As The Guardian explains …MP Robert Pearce who introduced a bill to the House of Commons in February 1908. The first daylight saving bill was drafted in 1909, presented to parliament several times and examined by a select committee. However, the idea was opposed by many, especially farmers, and the bill never made it into a law. It was during the first world war that Germany became the first country to implement DST, on 30 April […]