We’ve been on GMT since Sun 27th October 2024, when the clocks went back one hour, and on the last Sunday in March, the clocks will go forward one hour. Yes that means we lose an hour but it also brings us brighter evenings. Why do the clocks change in the UK? The changing of...
The clocks on our smartphones do something bizarre twice a year: One day in the spring, they jump ahead an hour, and our alarms go off an hour sooner. We wake up bleary-eyed and confused until we remember what just happened. Afterward, "Daylight Saving Time" becomes the norm for abou...
when clocks are moved ahead an hour to 2 a.m. The same clock change occurs in the Canary Islands, the Faroe Islands and Portugal, which call DST Western European Summer Time (WEST). However, even the European Union may propose an end to clock changes, as a recent...
The winter solstice signals the shortest day of the year. When is the shortest day of the year and what does winter solstice mean?
How could we tell time if there were no watches or clocks anywhere in the world? The sun was probably the world’s first “clock” except in the far north where the Eskimos(爱斯基摩人) live. There it’s dark most of the winter and light most of the summer. But in most of the worl...
Nicole lived on a farm where cocks were used as alarm clocks, and coal was burned when it was cold in the winter. She worked as a bank clerk in the day and was a part of a club that collected coins for fun. Although Nicole was 1 with this way of life, she still 2 moving to ...
Most of us are sound asleep when this happens and then change our clocks when we wake up. While the clocks on our smartphones alter themselves, we have to go around the house and manually update those clocks that need doing. Daylight Saving Day FAQs What time do we turn the clocks ...
Nicole lived on a farm where cocks were used as alarm clocks and coal was burned when it was cold in the winter. She worked as a bank clerk in the day and was a part of a club that collected coins for fun. Although Nicole was 1 with this way of life she still 2 moving to the...
Also, as many of you know, for twenty years we spent four or five months of the Canadian winter in the delightful city of Palm Springs in California, where we, usually, except for the one year when we had flooded impassable roads, had lovely warm days. ...
Times do change, don’t they, particularly in our era of heavy carbon emissions! Have you ever, dear readers, prepared a house to weather a hurricane? If so, you have a good idea of the physical and psychological strain of our day and a half before my county’s mandatory evacuation ...