{"id":1620,"date":"2009-10-26T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2009-10-26T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:31:37","slug":"why-have-we-turned-back-the-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Why have we turned back the clocks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a reader in the UK, then this Sunday you turned back the clocks one hour. But why do we do this?<br \/>\nThe change from British Summer Time (BST) back to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) has taken place annually since 1916 when, following wartime enemy Germany&#8217;s lead, the clocks went back to give farmers more daylight in the morning to work in their fields. But several organisations, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, want a change in the system to allow extra evening daylight all year round.<br \/>\nThis would be a problem for Scotland being further north than the rest of the UK. But the Scots could opt to turn back the clocks if they wanted to do so. This would mean that we have two time zones in the UK, but many countries have more than one time zone and, here in the UK, we had all sorts of local times until 1880.<br \/>\nCheck out the arguments in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2009\/10\/26\/what-is-the-point-of-turning-the-clocks-back-115875-21773993\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a reader in the UK, then this Sunday you turned back the clocks one hour. But why do we do this? The change from British Summer Time (BST) back to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) has taken place annually since 1916 when, following wartime enemy Germany&#8217;s lead, the clocks went back to give farmers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}