Opponents of daylight savings dismiss it as a pointless complexity that we simply don’t need in the internet era, which is mildly ironic given that internet-era devices generally manage to adjust themselves automatically. So our colleagues in Boston are always five hours behind us here in Oxfordshire, except for the brief period each autumn (or fall, given that we can’t even agree on the names of the seasons in our common language, let alone the alignment of our clocks) and spring when they aren’t. Much of North America does something very, very similar, yet annoyingly different, setting the dates on which the clocks change to the start of November and the middle of March instead. In the UK, for instance, our clocks are set to Greenwich Mean Time when New Year comes round, but we wind them forward to GMT+1 at the end of March, and back to GMT again at the end of October. Dates, times and timezones are troublesome things.ĭaylight saving, or “summer time” as it’s also commonly known, makes matters even worse, because many countries tweak their clocks twice a year in order to shift the apparent time of sunrise and sunset in relation to the regular working day.
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