Terry's Chocolate Factory Clock changing the clock for daylight saving

Yorkshire Post

John Cossins, one of the volunteers of the York Clock Group at Terrys Clock Tower, York. In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October. The period when the clocks are 1 hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST). There's more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings (sometimes called Daylight Saving Time). John and his volunteers are responsible for changing around twelve clocks across York. The Clock Tower, York, converted by the PJ Livesey Group.

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00:00 Hello, I'm John from the York Clock Group.

00:06 We're here at Terry's Chocolate Factory.

00:08 This weekend we need to retard about nine clocks.

00:13 It's going back to GMT, winter time, and this is one of the clocks that we will be altering.

00:20 And I'm here today to do that.

00:22 I have to stop it.

00:23 I actually will stop it for an hour.

00:25 We do that particularly with this clock because it won't retard, and some of the other clocks

00:31 we also stop them.

00:32 It's sometimes safer to do that.

00:35 The alternative is to advance it 11 hours, but this one would take some time to do that

00:40 manually.

00:41 So I'll stop the clock, I'll go and have a coffee next door, and kill an hour, come back

00:47 and restart it at the correct time.

00:49 (glasses clinking)

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