Source: File:
Allegorical illustration depicting the introduction of daylight saving time
from 1916. Daylight Saving Time: What is it and why do we have it? by Jess
Staufenberg Thursday 3 March
2016. [online] See an original image at: <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/daylight-saving-time-what-is-it-and-why-do-we-have-it-a6907621.html> [Accessed: 6 May 2016]
For further study see:
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/bills/daylight-saving-bill
After much
debates for and against,
Was a decision
made by Parliament.
This proposal was
to last for wars
Duration - the daylight saving Bill.
The idea to alter
times of clocks
Had been around
for some time -
The waking hours
alterations, had
Taken place in
the ancient world.
Then a Benjamin
Franklin satire
Rekindled the
thought, to suggest
That a practice
of waking earlier,
Would allow
people to use daylight.
One such figure
that had risen
To ride his
horse in Petts Wood
Noted how
many blinds were
Still down
despite a summer's day.
William Willett
was a builder,
Whose occupation
probably
Made him think, how wise
It was to use all
possible daylight.
By his own funds
in 1907, Willett
Petitioned
Parliament with his
Pamphlet - how for
half the year
The sun shines
while people sleep.
Determined to show all benefits
to Businesses and Town Councils,
to Businesses and Town Councils,
He found support
in Robert Pearce
MP, who tried
to get it passed into law.
While this failed, other minor support
Came from Churchill, with another
Consideration in
1909 - still nought
Came of this
until war's outbreak.
Willets thoughts
were to improve
Well-being of
people, that bring
Clocks forward
over four Sundays
In April, to reverse
them in September.
To be 20 minutes
over each day -
Germany was
already using such
A scheme, when 3 May
1916
Announced
Daylight saving Bill.
Declared as
unexpected the act
Was prompted by
several MPs
Being in favour
of a trial - only
For the length of
the current war.
Advantages would actually give
The saving of coal
in producing
Artificial light - the instance
Of advancing
would occur in May.
The Daylight Saving Bill, while
Not aimed at
peoples health,
Would act as
wartime production
Boost, under Defence
of realm Act.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916.
Daylight Saving. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 5 May 1916. P.6. Col.6. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12209706/Daily-Telegraph-May-5-1916.html> [Accessed: 5 May 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie
Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 5 May 2016).
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