Daylight Savings - why?
Discussion
AJS- said:
Tonight's the night where many of the the most developed parts of the western world in Europe and North America pay their annual homage to the ultimate bureaucratic deceit - the idea that fiddling around with the clocks can create more day light.
Why do we keep doing this?
We are now back on the clocks for our time zone. It is BST which is the artificial invention.Why do we keep doing this?
On our correct time zone we now get lighter mornings for a bit and it will be just as dark by the time most of us finish work as it was last week.
I don't mind daylight savings too much, lighter evenings would be nicer but there is only so much daytime in December to use.
The one retarded thing I can't work out is why it starts at the end of October, just 8 weeks before the solstice, but doesn't change back until the end of March which is 14 weeks after the solstice. If it was spread just 8 weeks either side the clocks would change in mid February and we would gain a whole extra month of light evenings. The Scots then also can't moan as March would be just like October in terms of daylight.
The one retarded thing I can't work out is why it starts at the end of October, just 8 weeks before the solstice, but doesn't change back until the end of March which is 14 weeks after the solstice. If it was spread just 8 weeks either side the clocks would change in mid February and we would gain a whole extra month of light evenings. The Scots then also can't moan as March would be just like October in terms of daylight.
McWigglebum4th said:
Pints said:
groucho said:
Keep the clocks as they are now. GMT!!! Does it really need to be light at 10pm in the summer?
Does it really need to be light at 3am in the summer?What do you suggest we do?
gazapc said:
I don't mind daylight savings too much, lighter evenings would be nicer but there is only so much daytime in December to use.
The one retarded thing I can't work out is why it starts at the end of October, just 8 weeks before the solstice, but doesn't change back until the end of March which is 14 weeks after the solstice. If it was spread just 8 weeks either side the clocks would change in mid February and we would gain a whole extra month of light evenings. The Scots then also can't moan as March would be just like October in terms of daylight.
One would suggest the vast majority of the moaning comes from south of the border from those who believe that leaving the clocks on british summer time will automatically bring beautiful long warm summer eveningsThe one retarded thing I can't work out is why it starts at the end of October, just 8 weeks before the solstice, but doesn't change back until the end of March which is 14 weeks after the solstice. If it was spread just 8 weeks either side the clocks would change in mid February and we would gain a whole extra month of light evenings. The Scots then also can't moan as March would be just like October in terms of daylight.
vx220 said:
Was it not made official durin ww1 to minimise coal usage to help the war machine?
Nothing to do with farmers, Scottish or otherwise?
Fairly sure it became official in 1916?
Seems like that was the original reason. If it was to save lighting/fuel costs later in the day, would it not make more sense to just start work an hour or two earlier? (which is what they were doing anyway??)Nothing to do with farmers, Scottish or otherwise?
Fairly sure it became official in 1916?
Just pick a timezone and stick with it IMO
Without taking a swipe at anyone, this subject brings forth more uninformed opinion than almost any other.
Daylight Saving is about making the best use of the available daylight, more so during the Winter months.
Economic benefits, enhanced safety,and better well-being (reduced SAD) all come from having lighter evenings, this being the outcome of shifting our clock time in relation to the natural day. GMT+1 in Winter and GMT+2 in summer are Central European time. Most agree that adopting that would benefit the UK, but Scotland has customarily resisted it. As Norway and Sweden use CET, that attitude seems illogical.
Daylight Saving is about making the best use of the available daylight, more so during the Winter months.
Economic benefits, enhanced safety,and better well-being (reduced SAD) all come from having lighter evenings, this being the outcome of shifting our clock time in relation to the natural day. GMT+1 in Winter and GMT+2 in summer are Central European time. Most agree that adopting that would benefit the UK, but Scotland has customarily resisted it. As Norway and Sweden use CET, that attitude seems illogical.
There are good reasons for staying on BST - during the years it was tried road deaths fell by a large percentage, fuel/electricity usage dropped.
See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11188...
See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11188...
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