Daylight time begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday and clocks go forward an hour.
“It worked, but I didn’t know what I was doing,” he said.
That first repair job was in a jewelry store in Wolverhampton, England, where the mechanically minded youth found work after spending a year in the merchant marine.“As soon as it was clear at the end of the school day, I would race home and then I would be fixing clocks,” Evans said. “And then I found I could get more money fixing clocks than I could teaching school.He moved to Canada at 28 and has lived in Langford for more than 50 years.
Some people come to him to change their clocks at this time of year if there is some complexity involved, but for the most part, the onset of daylight time “is no big deal,” he said. Sometimes he can direct a repair job over the phone, but things like cuckoo clocks pose more challenge.
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