Here’s the nitty-gritty. The change happens at 1:00 AM on that Sunday morning. Yes, in the dead of night. It’s like a tiny, bureaucratic magic trick.
When the clock strikes 1:00 AM, it magically becomes 2:00 AM. Poof. One hour of your night vanishes into thin air. Did you lose it? Did you misplace it under the sofa? No. You just sacrificed it to the gods of longer evenings.
This is British Summer Time (BST), by the way. It’s the official name. But let’s be real, we all just call it “the time when it stays light until ten o’clock.”
Why Do We Even Do This? (And Who’s to Blame?)
Good question. And the answer is a delightful mix of old blokes and bug collecting. Seriously.
An English builder named William Willett came up with the idea in 1907. He was annoyed that people wasted daylight in the summer mornings. Can you imagine? Getting annoyed about daylight? The man was a visionary.
But it took a World War to actually make it happen. Germany did it first in 1916 to save fuel. Britain followed a few weeks later. Because nothing says “we need more evening light” like a global conflict, apparently.
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So, we’re stuck with it. Blame William and the Kaiser. Perfect combination.
