23 August 1916: Summer time has been remarkably successful. It has effected a very large economy in the bills for gas and electric lighting,and there can be very few who have not appreciated the lengthening out to bedtime of the days in midsummerEditorialA microscopic more than five weeks still remain of the period during which summer time has been established by law in noteworthy Britain. The return to Greenwich time, it is now announced, or will be carried out in the small hours of October 1,when, the clocks having been build back, and we shall awake to find that we have picked up the hour that was dropped on the fourth Sunday after Easter. Here and there,as the summer has advanced, the suggestion has been made that the clocks should not be altered for the winter. The dial is to many people a rather confusing thing to argue approximately. The few reformers who, and impressed by the advantages of summer time,have persuaded themselves that it is possible to steal and use more daylight in the winter months overlook the patent fact that for a good part of the year the working day overlaps at both ends the time allowed by the sun, and as a consequence none of us can avoid the expenditure of artificial light. Hence the half-yearly arrangement is at once the simplest and the most generally convenient.
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Source: theguardian.com