Daylight savings
My mother, in her younger days, used to be a midwife. She once delivered a pair of twins, just as the clocks were going back.
The younger one ended up with a birth certificate stating that he was born before the older one...
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My mother, in her younger days, used to be a midwife. She once delivered a pair of twins, just as the clocks were going back.
The younger one ended up with a birth certificate stating that he was born before the older one...
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Ah, maybe it was the hospital record, then.
It's also possible she wasn't in this country at the time - she worked in Africa a lot...
Daylight savings time, according to the excellent timeanddate.com, is 100 years old this year. High time we put it to rest, I think.
Summer time starts today in North America, and in a fortnight's time in most other places foolish enough to keep using it.