A week ago Norway changed to Wintertime.
Using the EU system.
- I decided to check into Daylight Saving Time on the internet.
When I was a girl, there was great excitement
when we started Summertime in Norway.
The whole concept of changing the time on all
the clocks at home, seemed very strange.
- It was of course an added difficulty to remember what to do with the clock. Forward one hour or backward? Still some problems with that!
- OK, remember: Spring forward. Fall back.
It turns out that Benjamin Franklin had
already in 1784 proposed using Summertime
and Wintertime, but it stayed an idea only.
- Then in the First World War Germany, France and Britain started to use Summertime and Wintertime. More hours for active warfare? Some other countries also tried it at the time, including Norway in 1916.
Between the two world wars, the system was
abandoned, but reintroduced during the Second
World War in several countries,
including Norway.
- Then Norway took a break till it was used again between 1959 to 1965.There seems to have been a lot of discussion around this and in 1965 the Norwegian Parliament decided to stop it.
In 1980 it was reintroduced once more in Norway.
Following the EU system means that on the last Sunday
in March at two o'clock in the middle of the night
the clock is put one hour forward.
On the last Sunday in October in the middle of the night,
at three o'clock, the clock is put one hour
backward.
- Source, in Norwegian: http://www.timeanddate.com/norsk/omsommertid.html
- For the big picture, in English: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html
- About Franklin's essay: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html
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