Clocks go back sunday october 27th (Europe)

M23 Citizen said:
Did you know that, across Britain, we used to have our own time in each town in the country, based on the Solar Noon?

The time was never the same from one place to the next, but the time was accurate everywhere because the only barometer for what time it is, is the point at which the Sun hits the Local Meridian means it’s Noon (but there only, at that point).

It was the introduction of the railways that saw a standard time for the whole country introduced. Because people could travel from one place to another more quickly than ever before, they were finding that they were missing trains, Royal Mail were finding that they were missing deliveries, and people were arriving at places at the wrong time because where a train might set off from one location at 3pm and be expected to arrive in another location 30 minutes later, it was only 30 minutes later than the time where the train set off, but the train didn’t arrive at the other location 30 minutes later in their local time… so a standard time was introduced for everywhere.
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It wasn't legally adopted until 1880. Local mean time was still the official time until then even though the railways adopted GMT in the 1840's.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Why do we still do this? Is there any benefit?
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I don't see any benefit now. They used to reckon the brighter mornings were helpful for kids walking to school. But how many walk to school these days? Was there a theory about Scottish farmers wanting the status quo to remain in place?
 
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