Clocks go forward for summer time

By Anli Hung

Do you remember that you borrowed an hour from time last October? Today, it is time to return it.

British summer time began at 1am on Sunday 29 March 2009, after that clocks had to go forward an hour to 2am. It means you have lost an hour in bed. Also, the change will make darker mornings but lighter evenings.

The idea of daylight saving came from an American inventor Benjamin Franklin. He worked in France and noticed that French wasted time in midnight life and waking up late. It made him to write a letter about the daylight saving suggestion to Paris Magazine in 1784. Until 1916, Germany was the first country to execute the policy and Britain also followed it leading to spreading European.