British Summer Time. Again
Poll: British Summer Time. Again
Total Members Polled: 240
Discussion
QUESTION: Why do clocks change more or less ON the spring equinox but then stay on summer time until a month AFTER the autumn equinox - i.e. 5 months of winter time and 7 months of summer time?
It would IMO make massively more sense for clocks to change at the end of February, balancing up the daylight hours.
It would IMO make massively more sense for clocks to change at the end of February, balancing up the daylight hours.
Factoid. What's "Mean" about Greenwich Mean Time?
Earth’s orbit is not a perfect circle and its axis is tilted, so time measured by a sundial varies slightly throughout the year and days aren't all exactly 24 hours. "Mean" time is a calculated average of solar time, allowing clocks to keep the same time every day.
Earth’s orbit is not a perfect circle and its axis is tilted, so time measured by a sundial varies slightly throughout the year and days aren't all exactly 24 hours. "Mean" time is a calculated average of solar time, allowing clocks to keep the same time every day.
No ideas for a name said:
Why no vote for leave it at GMT all year.
We are on the Meridian, its is GMT all year, why add an hour?
Apparently stupid people either want to live in a different timezone or can't cope with sticking with GMT and just shifting when they do things. We are on the Meridian, its is GMT all year, why add an hour?
The UK is physically located at GMT, and mostly located west of the meridian, yet some apparently want to join a more southern part of Europe in pretending they're in Paris as some sort of solidarity?
What kind of idiots are so beholden to what the clock says that they can't just shift their schedule if they need to instead of pretending by changing the clock?
cliffords said:
I think we should add 1 hour and 21 mins and not move it again.
Go to India, they run with time 30 minutes offset from most other places. Bizarrely, local time is best converted to UK time by wearing a rotary dial watch upside down. Because India is exactly 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of GMT, flipping the watch 180° reorients the hour and minute hands to roughly display the corresponding time in London.JoshSm said:
The UK is physically located at GMT, and mostly located west of the meridian, yet some apparently want to join a more southern part of Europe in pretending they're in Paris as some sort of solidarity?
Check out Portugal - same time as UK. The Irish, of course, call theirs Irish Standard Time and Irish Summer Time. Cross the border from Northern Ireland and the name changes but the time doesn't. Brilliant.
Panamax said:
JoshSm said:
The UK is physically located at GMT, and mostly located west of the meridian, yet some apparently want to join a more southern part of Europe in pretending they're in Paris as some sort of solidarity?
Check out Portugal - same time as UK. The Irish, of course, call theirs Irish Standard Time and Irish Summer Time. Cross the border from Northern Ireland and the name changes but the time doesn't. Brilliant.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&...
There have been attempts to do away with it in the past.
There have been attempts to do away with it in the past.
Panamax said:
JoshSm said:
The UK is physically located at GMT, and mostly located west of the meridian, yet some apparently want to join a more southern part of Europe in pretending they're in Paris as some sort of solidarity?
Check out Portugal - same time as UK. The Irish, of course, call theirs Irish Standard Time and Irish Summer Time. Cross the border from Northern Ireland and the name changes but the time doesn't. Brilliant.
jmn said:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&...
There have been attempts to do away with it in the past.
And dropped fairly quickly. Leave it be. There have been attempts to do away with it in the past.
JoshSm said:
Apparently stupid people either want to live in a different timezone or can't cope with sticking with GMT and just shifting when they do things.
The UK is physically located at GMT, and mostly located west of the meridian, yet some apparently want to join a more southern part of Europe in pretending they're in Paris as some sort of solidarity?
What kind of idiots are so beholden to what the clock says that they can't just shift their schedule if they need to instead of pretending by changing the clock?
I think describing most people with a job as idiots is a bit much maybe? The UK is physically located at GMT, and mostly located west of the meridian, yet some apparently want to join a more southern part of Europe in pretending they're in Paris as some sort of solidarity?
What kind of idiots are so beholden to what the clock says that they can't just shift their schedule if they need to instead of pretending by changing the clock?
Thankfully, I'm free to organise my day as I please but when I was office based and had to stick to office hours it was always great to suddenly have the ability to do things in daylight after work.
Not sure what being being able to go out on my bike or walk the dog without a head torch has to do with pretending I'm in Paris either.
No ideas for a name said:
Why no vote for leave it at GMT all year.
We are on the Meridian, its is GMT all year, why add an hour?
Standardised time zones are a man made concept created to serve our needs. We are on the Meridian, its is GMT all year, why add an hour?
Daylight savings time is the same deal.
What ever comes next (assuming it does change at some point) will be the same.
gregs656 said:
Standardised time zones are a man made concept created to serve our needs.
Daylight savings time is the same deal.
What ever comes next (assuming it does change at some point) will be the same.
Originally the railway's need AIUI. Standardised time helps the world function. BST, not so much.Daylight savings time is the same deal.
What ever comes next (assuming it does change at some point) will be the same.
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