Today in 1968 Britain introduced what became known as British Standard Time to replace the changing GMT / BST.
The idea was that we would synchronise our clocks with Europe instead of switching to Greenwich Mean Time in Winter, but as history shows this didn’t exactly go down too well.
What the experimenters forgot was the further north you go, the later the sun rises in Winter therefore this experiment meant that for those in Scotland especially, the sun might only be rising at 9am which proved rather dangerous especially for school children who often walked to school.
Eventually the scheme was scrapped in 1971 and we returned to changing our clocks according to Greenwich Mean Time and British Summer Time.
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