Daylight Saving Time 2015: When Do Clocks Change and Go Back?
The UK has been turning its clocks an hour back before winter for a long time, but there are still those who do not know when and why the Daylight Saving Time (DST) is being implemented.
The Daylight Saving Time 2015 in the UK is bound to begin on Sunday, Oct. 25 at 2 a.m. At that hour, all clocks in the United Kingdom will be turned an hour back to coincide with the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), according to the Courier.
Daylight Saving Time is also called the British Summer Time (BST). Clocks in the UK were set an hour ahead on March 30 this year and they will be reset once again in autumn to allow people to make the most out of the time when daylight is present, the Liverpool Echo reports.
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The concept of DST was first brought up by New Zealand resident George Vernon Hudson in 1895. But it was William Willett who first suggested the implementation of the BST in 1908, based on information from the Greenwich Royal Museums.
Being an avid horse rider, Willett was frustrated with people wasting the daylight during summer by waking up late while he was already up early and riding outside. He later published a pamphlet titled "The Waste of Daylight" to propose a method of adjusting the time. The concept was first implanted in 1916, a year after Willett died, the report details.
There are those who say the BST is beneficial to a person's physical and psychological well-being because it relieves the symptoms of a condition called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
Another benefit of the DST is said to be the more productive state of individuals. According to some, there are lesser vehicular accidents and crime when the daylight hours reach the evenings.
Those who have a hard time remembering when the Daylight Saving Time is implemented only need to remember the saying "Spring forward, fall back."
