Bringing forward and turning back the clocks is a tradition which began long ago.
In 1907, an Edwardian builder William Willett first introduced the idea of British Summer Time in a bid to stop Britons wasting value daylight hours sleeping.
He published a pamphlet called “The Waste of Daylight” to inspire people to get out of bed earlier by changing the nation’s clocks.
Mr Willett argued that it would not only improve health and happiness, but it would save the country £2.5million.
He proposed the clocks be moved forward 80 minutes overall in four incremental steps during April and reversed in the same manner in September.
However, his idea was ridiculed and dismissed in Parliament.
source: express.co.uk