36. British Summer Time

Here comes the British Summer Time! Did you move all your clocks and watches forwards one hour? Time difference between the UK and Japan is now 8 hours.

A bit of a history on British Summer Time...


In 1972, the UK adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in winter time and British Summer Time (BST) in summer time. But a custom of changing the time forwards and backwards has started in 1916. A guy called William Willett first suggested it in 1907 because he thought the British people were wasting daylight in summer. Then the Government finally agreed with the idea in a following year that he died. Sadly, he could not experience it.


It implies that the Government is always late to do something anywhere...

Enjoy the summer!


Reference: British Life and Culture by Woodlands Junior School, UK


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