Your views on altering daylight hours
Poll: Your views on altering daylight hours
Total Members Polled: 248
Discussion
Einion Yrth said:
We can't alter daylight hours, all we can do is alter what time we say it is when it's light. Leave the clocks alone and if necessary change your working hours to suit you better.
YES! THIS! ^^^FFS, stop pissing about with the bloody clocks. I am in favour of GMT all year round, as it should be. Local noon is when the sun is directly overhead.
colonel c said:
CommanderJameson said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Einion Yrth said:
We can't alter daylight hours, all we can do is alter what time we say it is when it's light. Leave the clocks alone and if necessary change your working hours to suit you better.
+1. I honestly wonder if some of the proponents of altering hours (not here) think it makes the day longer.
Set the clocks to GMT and leave them be.
Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
qube_TA said:
So it doesn't get light until 9 (so dark going to work/school) and dark again at 5 (so dark when you're coming home from work).
Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
Surely with GMT the daylight hours would be more symetrical around midday than that?Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
Johnnytheboy said:
qube_TA said:
So it doesn't get light until 9 (so dark going to work/school) and dark again at 5 (so dark when you're coming home from work).
Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
Surely with GMT the daylight hours would be more symmetrical around midday than that?Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
Look at this hippy website: http://www.new-age.co.uk/sun-times.htm
It gets light at about 8AM in England in Winter, with BST, that's 9, assuming you arrive at school / work before 9 you'll be getting up and travelling in the dark.
It gets dark just before 4PM, with BEST that'll be just before 5, so given that most people leave work after 5 then it'll still be dark when you leave work to go home.
Baffled why this is complicated to fathom for some.
Digga said:
I realise the total number of daylight hours cannot be changed, but I still stand by my original assertion that altering clocks to shove more of those hours later in the day would be broadly beneficial.
9am sunrise? No thanks! That would mean morning and evening commute will be in the dark, which would suck.FunkyNige said:
Digga said:
I realise the total number of daylight hours cannot be changed, but I still stand by my original assertion that altering clocks to shove more of those hours later in the day would be broadly beneficial.
9am sunrise? No thanks! That would mean morning and evening commute will be in the dark, which would suck.The lighter evenings campaign is just another excuse for the lazy can't-get-ups who don't want a job. Lighter mornings would benefit the hard working tax paying majority.
qube_TA said:
Johnnytheboy said:
qube_TA said:
So it doesn't get light until 9 (so dark going to work/school) and dark again at 5 (so dark when you're coming home from work).
Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
Surely with GMT the daylight hours would be more symmetrical around midday than that?Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
But it's not what you wrote in the post I quoted (sunrise at 9, sunset at 5).
Johnnytheboy said:
qube_TA said:
Johnnytheboy said:
qube_TA said:
So it doesn't get light until 9 (so dark going to work/school) and dark again at 5 (so dark when you're coming home from work).
Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
Surely with GMT the daylight hours would be more symmetrical around midday than that?Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
But it's not what you wrote in the post I quoted (sunrise at 9, sunset at 5).
Sunrise: 07:51
Sunset: 16:03
It should be noted, however, that all it takes is an heavily overcast sky and you are in a dark gloom for the entire "daylight" period.
Dial in "winter" weather over a period of time and it is correspondingly darker thus
http://www.carseweather.net/wxsimforecast.php
Still should be a good day Wed, http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/dayforecast.as...
I win
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/tomorrow.asp?z...
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/dayforecast.as...
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http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/dayforecast.as...
Edited by bobr on Monday 15th November 21:28
elster said:
thinfourth2 said:
Johnnytheboy said:
filski666 said:
I never understood how putting the clocks forward and back affects the farmers anyway?
Nor have I, can't they choose their own hours, being self employed as a rule?But actually it makes feck all difference to farmers due to the invention of headlights
A 16 hour day when busy would mean most of it is in the dark during winter. Changing the time will mean bugger all.
Johnnytheboy said:
qube_TA said:
Johnnytheboy said:
qube_TA said:
So it doesn't get light until 9 (so dark going to work/school) and dark again at 5 (so dark when you're coming home from work).
Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
Surely with GMT the daylight hours would be more symmetrical around midday than that?Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
But it's not what you wrote in the post I quoted (sunrise at 9, sunset at 5).
qube_TA said:
colonel c said:
CommanderJameson said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Einion Yrth said:
We can't alter daylight hours, all we can do is alter what time we say it is when it's light. Leave the clocks alone and if necessary change your working hours to suit you better.
+1. I honestly wonder if some of the proponents of altering hours (not here) think it makes the day longer.
Set the clocks to GMT and leave them be.
Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
lord summerisle said:
elster said:
thinfourth2 said:
Johnnytheboy said:
filski666 said:
I never understood how putting the clocks forward and back affects the farmers anyway?
Nor have I, can't they choose their own hours, being self employed as a rule?But actually it makes feck all difference to farmers due to the invention of headlights
A 16 hour day when busy would mean most of it is in the dark during winter. Changing the time will mean bugger all.
If one desires to make better use of the available daylight, just get out of the scratcher earlier... ffs it's not hard.
Well it might be hard, morning wood and all that. err
thinfourth2 said:
Lets just move to the same time as Hong Kong
Then the hugely important finance type can wk themselves silly over being on the same time zone as the far east.
And we can all have light evenings
Funnily enough, I was just going to respond that it's better for doing business with the east to keep on BST Then the hugely important finance type can wk themselves silly over being on the same time zone as the far east.
And we can all have light evenings
Off home for a wk now...
colonel c said:
qube_TA said:
colonel c said:
CommanderJameson said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Einion Yrth said:
We can't alter daylight hours, all we can do is alter what time we say it is when it's light. Leave the clocks alone and if necessary change your working hours to suit you better.
+1. I honestly wonder if some of the proponents of altering hours (not here) think it makes the day longer.
Set the clocks to GMT and leave them be.
Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
qube_TA said:
colonel c said:
qube_TA said:
colonel c said:
CommanderJameson said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Einion Yrth said:
We can't alter daylight hours, all we can do is alter what time we say it is when it's light. Leave the clocks alone and if necessary change your working hours to suit you better.
+1. I honestly wonder if some of the proponents of altering hours (not here) think it makes the day longer.
Set the clocks to GMT and leave them be.
Sounds awesome, are you a vampire with an allergy to daylight or something?
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