~ Going Forwards and Backwards in Time ~

This Sunday many will be were some go ahead one hour and some go back an hour pending where you live in accord to the zero meridian.

Daylight time was first endorsed in Germany in 1915, soon thereafter it was adapted by Britain most of Europe and Canada. Since the sun shone for a time while most people were asleep, it was reasoned that light far better utilizing time by way of amending our time within the day. The solution was to push the clocks ahead one hour in springtime, causing people to wake an hour earlier. Expending less energy in light their homes, the thought was if time was adjusted patterns would adjust with it. And all would change their daily routines. When the days started getting shorter in the fall and people awoke to increasing darkness, the clocks were turned back an hour to get more light in the morning. Although first instituted in 1915, the idea of daylight time had been batted around for a more than a century. Benjamin Franklin suggested the idea more than once in the 1770s while he was an emissary to France. It wasn't until more than a century later that the idea of daylight time was taken seriously. William Willett, an English builder, revived the idea in 1907, and eight years later Germany was the first nation to adopt daylight time. Reason being it was to conserve energy. Britain quickly followed suit and instituted British Summer Time in 1916. Several areas, including parts of Europe, Canada and the United States, followed suit after the First World War. In most cases, daylight time ended with the armistice. During the Second World War, a different type of daylight time was reestablished by Britain and clocks were set two hours ahead of Greenwich time during the summer. It was known as “Double Summer Time”. The time shift didn't end with the summer, as clocks were rolled back to be one hour ahead of GMT through the winter. The Uniform Time Act, enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1966, established a system of uniform for each region, as do other countries around the world. Yet there are some places that still don't observe daylight savings time around the world but the majority of the world have.