The usual Michaelinas spell of hot weather came very aptly
this year to illustrate the folly of the pettifogging arrangement by which the end of Summer Time was this year put forward by about three weeks. The sensible dates for the beginning and end of Summer Time are those proposed in the Draft Bill of last year, i.e., the last Sunday in March and the first Sunday in October. These dates were altered because of "agricultural pressure." But we cannot believe that another three weeks of Summer Time will kill British agriculture, while it is of inestimable use to the town workers, who are after all 80 per cent. of the population. Indeed, these last three weeks are just when Summer Time can give a, vital hour of light which makes possible healthy recreation after the day's work. We sincerely hope that before next year the whole temporal. arrangements of the country will have been put on a definite and permanent basis.
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