20 APRIL 1934, Page 6

We manage our times and seasons badly. The principle of

a Fixed Easter (which this year would have fallen on April 15th) is approved and embodied in an Act which is only potentially and not actually in force. We leave till the third week in April the adoption of summer-time instead of synchronizing with France and giving our own population the benefit of long evenings a fortnight earlier.. And now, simultaneously, we are trying in a half-hearted and experimental way, with the B.B.C. as whipping-boy, to accustom ourselves .to what is called 24-hour time, which means that the First News Bulletin will fall each evening at 18 o'clock. I hope the national brain will be equal to it, for it is common sense and common convenience too.