At the end of the article, there’s this interesting fact:
King Edward VII invented his own timezone for the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk, in 1901 to squeeze in half-an-hour more hunting time each day
At the end of the article, there’s this interesting fact:
King Edward VII invented his own timezone for the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk, in 1901 to squeeze in half-an-hour more hunting time each day
It’s about daylight savings, it provided more daylight to hunt in the evening, presumably because the day’s other activities ended earlier.
He was the king. He had the power to make people spend less time each day doing activities-other-than-hunting rather than force them to wake up earlier by doing this time zone nonsense.
Don’t take my explanation for an endorsement, I’ve no love for DST either