PETER HITCHENS: Let's turn back time - to when we didn't mess up our clocks

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

The story is told (it may even be true) of the old woman who lived alone with her cat in a small wooden shack on the border between Russia and Belarus. 

One day, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union made these two places into separate countries, an official banged on her door.

���Sorry to bother you,��� said the bureaucrat, ���but we need to fix the frontier properly now. At the moment, it runs right through your kitchen. We can���t have...