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Originally Posted by pem
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As to why do we do it - I believe it was to give farmers more daylight in the morning during the war - a war which I believe ended some years ago now.
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According to the website I posted earlier, farmers opposed the introdution of DST as it upset the body clocks of their animals.
About twelve months after Willett began to advocate daylight saving (he spent a fortune lobbying), he attracted the attention of the authorities and Mr. Pearce later Sir Robert Pearce introduced a Bill in the House of Commons to make it compulsory to adjust the clocks. The bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times, but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests. Generally lampooned at the time, Willett died on March 4, 1915.