Saturday 26th October 2024
    Difficulty: Hard

    Daylight saving time (Quiz #708)

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    Remember to put your clocks back tonight!

    1. The idea of daylight saving time was proposed in 1907 by a builder named William Willett, who published his ideas in a pamphlet entitled...what?

    2. From 2002, the EU stipulated that all member states should adjust their clocks on the last Sunday in March and October. Which country was exempt from this directive?

    3. In 2018, the European Commission launched a public consultation asking people what they thought of scrapping daylight saving time changes. What was the result of this?

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