28 October 2011 Last updated at 17:11 The government is
considering moving the UK’s clocks forward by an hour for a
three-year trial period. Ministers are writing to counterparts
in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to seek a UK-wide
consensus on a trial. It would see the UK adopt Central European
Time, with BST plus one hour in summer and GMT plus one in
winter. But a spokeswoman for the Scottish government said its
“established position” was that there was “no case for a change
to existing arrangements”. If adopted, the change would mean
that for one autumn, the clocks would not go back, synchronising
the UK with much of Europe and meaning that British Summer Time
(BST) would effectively continue throughout the winter. The
following spring the clocks would go forward to BST plus one
hour, or two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) –
something which has been called “double summertime”. Up until
the coming of the railways, people kept time by the sun. This
was known as local mean time It was only in 1