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The idea of the time changing first came from American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin, while on a trip to Paris in While in Paris, Franklin suggested if people woke up earlier, when it was lighter, they would save money on candles. However, it took a campaign from a builder named William Willett in to make changes in the UK.

Willett distributed a manifesto named The Waste Of Daylight, asking people to start getting up earlier in the day. Unfortunately for Willett, this was a year after his death, so he did not live to see his idea come to fruition.

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Spring equinox: When do the clocks change and when does summer start? So on Sunday, March 28 this coming Sunday the clocks will go forwards by an hour at 1am. BBC iWonder: Is changing the clocks a waste of time? The first time the clocks changed in the UK was May , shortly after Germany who we were at war with at the time put their clocks forward.

It was actually really difficult to put most clocks back an hour at the time, and the government put up posters with information on how to do it. It was the middle of World War Two, so all the extra evening daylight gave people longer to get home before the blackout. Lighter evenings means darker mornings - something that can be problematic in the far northern parts of the UK.

In a similar experiment was tried. Nobody could really tell if it had a positive effect though, so parliament voted to get rid of it in Several members of parliament have since tried to reintroduce British Standard Time, but none have succeeded. One place in the world only changes their clocks by half an hour - Lord Howe Island in Australia. As Australia is in the southern hemisphere, Lord Howe Island put their clocks back at around the same time of year we put ours forward.

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