Yes I believe to was to give an extra hour of daylight to the farmers up north or particularly in Scotland. Days are short in Scotland....it seems, not that Ive ever been there and the Scots being a weee bit short on imagination, cant find anything to do on those long winter nights other than complain about the long winter nights.To indulge in anything that might resemble a cosy warm sexual encounter, they would have to consult the writings of stuff shirt Presbiteeerians from days gone by, and they, learned men that they were, would certainly give any shenanigans the thumbs down. But I guess to while away the time, they can always rinse out their tartan longjohn underwear (the wind from the Trossachs can be most penetrating) which they have been known to wear beneath their sporrans.
Anyway I ramble on, but yes it is to accomodate the farmers up there, and anything that shortens the long evenings is welcome.
There is a well known campaigner, whose name esacapes me for the moment, well he was on Radio 4 the other morning in a lighthearted interview with John Humphries, calling for us all to have European time. Essential in a modern world I would have thought. We are completely out on a looney limb with only Portugal in tandem with us timewise. On the radio they spoke about business people on the Eurostar all fiddling about changes their watches on a journey that takes an hour, its kind of farcical