British Standard Time

Yokel is old enough to remember the last time that the UK tried what was then called British Standard Time during the winter, and British Standard Summer Time during the summer

British Blogs English Yokel 2010

Yokel is old enough to remember the last time that the UK tried what was then called British Standard Time during the winter, and British Standard Summer Time during the summer

British Blogs English Yokel 2010

Rospa has an archive full of information spanning the duration of the campaign, including journal articles from the late 1960s, when a trial put the UK on British Standard Time for three years.

Home | Mail Online 2010

Since then, there have been a number of other attempts including the Central European Time Bill which proposed England, Wales and Northern Ireland move to the new time but not Scotland, then there was the British Standard Time experiment which saw clocks fixed at summertime for 3 years between 1968 and 1971.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Angus MacNeil MP 2011

Since then, there have been a number of other attempts including the Central European Time Bill which proposed England, Wales and Northern Ireland move to the new time but not Scotland, then there was the British Standard Time experiment which saw clocks fixed at summertime for 3 years between 1968 and 1971.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Angus MacNeil MP 2011