{"id":7110,"date":"2017-10-28T18:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7110"},"modified":"2017-10-28T18:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T17:45:17","slug":"clocks-go-back-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/clocks-go-back-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Clocks go back this Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2817\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/London.jpg\" alt=\"London\" width=\"348\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/London.jpg 416w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/London-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/>The clocks go back this Sunday &#8211; October 29 &#8211; at 2am, the UK reverts to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) by going back one hour, to 1am. This marks the official end of British summertime. A clever way to remember the hour-change rule is &#8220;Spring forward, Fall back&#8221;.<br \/>\nRelish those extra 60 minutes in bed. The mornings will also be lighter, however the evenings will be darker.<br \/>\nAnd bear the event in mind when making plans for the day: despite the prevalence of smartphones and other devices which alter the time for you automatically, there will always be one person you know who didn&#8217;t get the memo.<br \/>\nIn the UK the maximum 16 hours and 50 minutes of daylight falls on the longest day in June &#8211; also known as the summer solstice. On the shortest day,\u00a0 Thursday December 21, this will dwindle to just seven hours and 49 minutes when the sun rises at 8:03am and sets at 3:53pm in London.<br \/>\nEdwardian builder William Willett introduced the idea of British Summer Time, also known as Daylight Saving Time, in 1907.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/clocks-go-back-this-sunday\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clocks go back this Sunday &#8211; October 29 &#8211; at 2am, the UK reverts to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) by going back one hour, to 1am. This marks the official end of British summertime. A clever way to remember the hour-change rule is &#8220;Spring forward, Fall back&#8221;. Relish those extra 60 minutes in bed. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7111,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7110\/revisions\/7111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}