Is UK the only country to put clocks back??

[steiner]

As long as you feel sorry for the people working tonight who work an extra hour without pay.

 

that applies to me and I hope im going to be paid for the extra hour.

[bigbladerob]

i drove back from Leicester last night. set off at 1:23am. I made it back home at 1:28am....

5 minutes from Leicester! I'll take that thanks!

 

[king don]

yes we are its time it was stopped

[dosxuk]

yes we are

 

Nonsense!!

[bizzle]

who cares....its a farce,should be scrapped,its a ww2 cast off,we live in the now,not the past,apparentley its the scots that want to keep it....

 

Really? I thought it was a chap called William (forgot his surname) from London who came up with the idea. He had campaigned for years back in 1907ish for the Goverment to adopt the change of the clocks going forwards & backwards as we would be saving more hours in the day.

 

 

(I maybe wrong)

[HeadingNorth]

Really? I thought it was a chap called William (forgot his surname) from London who came up with the idea. He had campaigned for years back in 1907ish for the Goverment to adopt the change of the clocks going forwards & backwards as we would be saving more hours in the day.

 

 

(I maybe wrong)

 

I don't know who had the original campaign, but your timeline is about right. It was introduced during the First World War. (stainnoodle may have simply mistyped ww1 for ww2, or he might have his wars mixed up.)