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A History of British Summer Time

• ogogmad 1y ago
  Off-topic, but: "Geezer" means "elderly man" in AmE, while it just means "guy" in BrE. It used to be more common to hear it in the UK.
  • zeristor 1y ago
    “Ice cream freezer” being the cockney version
• pmg101 1y ago
  I realised this year that all the arguments I'd ever heard for shifting the hour (lighter mornings in winter help kids get to school alive and help farmers work) were arguments for GMT itself, not for BST. So why don't we just have GMT year-round? It's kinda fun to have sunset at 2130 in June but is it really so important?
• susam 1y ago
  See also this page from the Royal Museums Greenwich: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/time/when-do-clocks-go-back https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/time/when-do-clocks-go-back