--- title: The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 121 «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / The date line and summer time: clocks… # The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back The 16 questions of lesson 121 «The date line and summer time: clocks going forward and back» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 102 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t1/) — Mia: "First New Year's in London, obviously, it's the capital of time." Dad: "Nah." Who's right? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t2/) — Leo: "Samoa and American Samoa, 100 km apart, different days? That's mental." ("Mental" means crazy.) Why is it so? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t3/) — Ruby flies east from Japan to Hawaii on her birthday: "Birthday twice?? Double cake, slay!" ("Slay" means brilliant.) What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t4/) — Jack, on the last Sunday of March: "Phone says 9, kitchen clock says 8. Did I sleep through an hour or what?" — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t5/) — Hannah, in England: "Spring forward, fall back? We say autumn, ya numpty." ("Numpty" is Scottish for a silly person.) Does the trick still work? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t6/) — Kai: "Stayin' up for the extra hour, best night of the year, bro." Which night is that? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t7/) — Charlotte in Arizona: "Sometimes we got the same time as my cousin in California, sometimes we don't, y'all." Why? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t8/) — Liam's teacher: "A builder came up with summer time." Liam: "Bricks and clocks? Sus." ("Sus" means suspicious.) What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t9/) — Sam's dad in mid-March: "Bloody New York's changed their clocks before us again." What has happened? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t10/) — Nan, about her oven clock: "I just add an hour in me head, love." In July the oven says 2:00. What's the real time? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t11/) — What would happen if Britain kept summer time all winter long? — right ✓ · ★★ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/t12/) — A film shows a hero crossing the date line going west at 11 pm on Monday. What date is it on the other side? — right ✓ · ★★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/e1/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the crossing of the International Date Line in an easterly direction. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/e2/) — Given that Kiritimati is fourteen hours ahead of London, ascertain the time in London at the moment Kiritimati attains midnight commencing the first of January. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/e3/) — Identify the duration of the night upon which British clocks are put back by one hour in October. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/121-date-line-and-summer-time/e4/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the origin of summer time in Britain? — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [120. Time zones: why it's night in Sydney when it's d…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/120-time-zones/) - next →: [122. Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, ca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/122-clocks-before-clocks/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/)