English Learning for Curious Minds #102: Daylight Saving Time
In 70 countries around the world we change the time twice a year, giving us longer evenings in summer.
Why did we start doing this? Why do some people love it, others hate it, and will we ever stop doing it altogether?
- Early ideas about timekeeping
- Romans & hours that were longer or shorter than 60 minutes
- When every town had its own time zone
- The invention of standard time zones
- The Earth's tilt and the reason days are longer and shorter by season
- The proposals to create Daylight Saving Time: collecting insects & playing golf
- Starting to use Daylight Saving Time
- Daylight Saving Time in the 20th century
- Reasons to keep Daylight Saving Time: wellbeing, reducing crime, reducing accidents, businesses that benefit from it
- Reasons to get rid of Daylight Saving Time: doesn't save energy, it's annoying to change, lost productivity, health disadvantages, businesses that don't like it
- Farmers in the north of Scotland
- When the UK kept Daylight Saving Time all year round
- Complications with Daylight Saving Time when communicating between time zones
- Getting rid of Daylight Saving Time?
- Changing the clocks twice a year at the Queen's residences
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