Twice a year time changes. In the spring, time goes forward by one hour ('Spring Forward'). In the winter, time goes back by one hour ('Fall Back'). Historically, this was carried out so that in the spring when time went forward, this allowed more daylight so that people could enjoy more outside activities during the daylight hours.
Recently, on October 31st time went back one hour in the UK. However - in the USA time does not go back until the 7th of November. This has led to a very confusing week for me as I keep forgetting about the 4 hour time difference rather than the 5 hour time difference.
Whose idea was it to change the time zone in UK at a different time than in the USA? I tried to google information about this but there really wasn't any significant amount of information about this, except to talk about the differences in the appearance of winter, and also the decision of parliament wanting things a certain way. So - basically it is what it is. And this English Yankee just has to figure it out for a week or something like that as long as I get my one hour extra to sleep in at some point lol.
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