Sunrise - Sunset - Why is the hour not changed back earlier in the year?

[brokencrossbar1]

Does anyone remember the year they experimented by not changing the clocks in Oct? Mad summer time they called it. According to my Da men were standing about on building sites til nearly 10am until they could see what they were doing!

That's my memory of my summer jobs on the site but it had nothing to do with the clocks changing and everything to do with the Smithwicks consumed!

[Rufus T Firefly]

Does anyone remember the year they experimented by not changing the clocks in Oct? Mad summer time they called it. 

Although I lived through it, I don't remember it - it happened in the late sixties / early seventies when the clocks remained an hour ahead of GMT for two or three years. There still is a campaign I believe to have this reintroduced permanently - I think the argument is that there are less road traffic fatalities due to things like kids going home from school in daylight.