{"id":22271,"date":"2014-10-27T21:49:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=22271"},"modified":"2014-10-27T21:49:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T21:49:20","slug":"voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Voxpop: Do the clocks need to change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 416px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/NoLogo_5_autumn_big_MU.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22282\" alt=\"As Autumn sets in, the clocks are set to go back. Photo by Mair Unwin\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/NoLogo_5_autumn_big_MU-416x312.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22282\" alt=\"As Autumn sets in, the clocks are set to go back. Photo by Mair Unwin\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/NoLogo_5_autumn_big_MU-416x312.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> As Autumn sets in, the clocks are set to go back. Photo by Mair Unwin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Twice a year, the clocks change, and twice a year we are either pleased about this or forget and are never on time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The concept of changing the clocks was originally thought up in 1895 by an astronomer who believed in utilising the morning hours. However, in an age where dark evenings are deemed dangerous and working hours stretch on, is the concept outdated?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Many people believe daylight saving hours, or British summer time, should be kept all year &#8211; lighter evenings win out against lighter mornings when people have to walk home at five with a torch. There are lots of arguments for keeping BST, especially from the 10:10 Lighter Later campaign who list benefits on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighterlater.org\/benefits.html\">website<\/a>. So why do we still change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the end of British summer time leaving us in the dark?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":22282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3850,3851,3852,3853,3854,28],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-british-summer-time","tag-bst","tag-changing-clocks","tag-clocks","tag-daylight-saving","tag-voxpop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Voxpop: Do the clocks need to change? - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Voxpop: Do the clocks need to change? - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Is the end of British summer time leaving us in the dark?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-10-27T21:49:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/NoLogo_5_autumn_big_MU.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"altcardiff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"altcardiff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/\",\"name\":\"Voxpop: Do the clocks need to change? - alt.cardiff\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/NoLogo_5_autumn_big_MU.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-10-27T21:49:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/de310c54cac78ee98ab979d1d9838514\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2014\/10\/27\/voxpop-do-the-clocks-need-to-change\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/NoLogo_5_autumn_big_MU.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/10\/NoLogo_5_autumn_big_MU.jpg\",\"width\":480,\"height\":360,\"caption\":\"As Autumn sets in, the clocks are set to go back. 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