MAXIMUM SUMMER TIME

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4473, 21 November 1933, Page 5

MAXIMUM SUMMER TIME

THE POSITION IN BRITAIN. Objectors to the incidence of summer time (or daylight saving, as we call it) will no doubt be interested to note that in Britain summer time extends to half the year. There summer time came to an end on Sunday, Bth October, in the early hours of the morning. It had been in force for 26 weeks, the longest period possible in terms of the Summer Time Act of August, 1925. Before that Act provision for summer time was temporary, and the period varied. There have been five occasions when it was greater than this year’s term. In 1919 and 1921 it was longer by one day, in 1918 by eight days, in 1922 by two weeks, and in 1920, in view of the exigencies of the coal strike, it continued for 30 weeks and 1 day. The maximum duration can occur only when, as in this year, 16th April is a Sunday and is also Easter Day. The last occasion with an Easter on 16th April was 1922, when the present law was not in force. The next occasion will not come until 1995, so that if daylight saving and Easter Day continue to be regulated as. at present there will not he a duration of summertime like this year’s for 62 years —which is quite a long time. Perhaps we shall not have to wait so long before a British summer repeats the sunshine record of this year of exceptional grace.