Daylight Savings - why?
Discussion
lamboman100 said:
AJS- said:
Why do we keep doing this?
It was / is done for Scotland.Without it, some parts of Scotland in Winter would be dark until 10am.
I don't understand where people get the idea that it is for Scottish farmers. Do they think the cows get up with an alarm clock?
Don't get caught by the 'harmonising with Europe' idea either. The rest of Europe do 'daylight saving' too. Being on CET would make for very odd sunrise/sunset hours for us in the 'west'.
Personally, I think we should stay on GMT (or 'Universal Time') all year.
FF
Don't get caught by the 'harmonising with Europe' idea either. The rest of Europe do 'daylight saving' too. Being on CET would make for very odd sunrise/sunset hours for us in the 'west'.
Personally, I think we should stay on GMT (or 'Universal Time') all year.
FF
Pints said:
I'd prefer we stayed at BST. The winter hours are stuffed either way, at least we could make summer months worth the hours we're given.
Err. Given it's BST in the summer we already make the most of those...But I'd happily stay BST year round to have slightly lighter evenings. The effect would be darker mornings. Depending upon where you were this would mean schoolkids travelling to school in the dark in the mornings. There again they'd get a little more light-time in the evenings for some outdoor exercise.
Swings and roundabouts.
I loathe the dark months. The upside is the magnificent three months in the summer with days from 4:00am to past ten o'clock...
Don said:
Pints said:
I'd prefer we stayed at BST. The winter hours are stuffed either way, at least we could make summer months worth the hours we're given.
Err. Given it's BST in the summer we already make the most of those...I'm aware we currently make the most of those.
BoRED S2upid said:
No idea why. All I know is that I won't be getting an extra hour in bed little BS2 will be up at 7am like every other day which will be 6am
Try 6.15am now being 5.15am, even too early for CBeebies.Can't wait to hear all the comments about "having an extra hour in bed", I hope you farmers are happy.
lamboman100 said:
AJS- said:
Why do we keep doing this?
It was / is done for Scotland.Without it, some parts of Scotland in Winter would be dark until 10am.
Ginger s
powerstroke said:
So what?? how many people south of the border are negatively affected why do we bend over backwards for them will they start a war or something if they don't always get preferential treatment
Ginger s
Aww stop moaning you thick bdGinger s
no matter how much you change the clocks you still have exactly the same amount of sunlight
A point lost on the residents of surrey
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