Your views on altering daylight hours

[qube_TA]

colonel c said:

How! Because from October to March every year darkness will fall an hour sooner than it would have if BST was retained. Given that the majority of people are more active in the afternoons and evenings, that makes hour of useful daylight. That's how.

Eh?

Do you think that if we're on Summer time then we'll have Summer weather too? It'll still be cold, dark, wet & miserable regardless of the clock, it's Winter!

So for that extra hour of dingy light in the afternoon which few will get to enjoy actually see because almost everyone will be at work during the week (unless you're a Teacher/student or unemployed) you want to have everyone going to work and school in the dark with all the joy of accidents that will cause for 6 months of the year.

What do you think folk will do with their extra hour of light in the evening, wash the car? Have a BBQ? Mow the lawn? Sit out in a Beer garden? A nice walk in the park?

[TuxRacer]

qube_TA said:

What do you think folk will do with their extra hour of light in the evening, wash the car? Have a BBQ? Mow the lawn? Sit out in a Beer garden? A nice walk in the park?

More likely it'll have been dark for an hour less when they leave work, in the dark.

[NoelWatson]

thinfourth2 said:

NoelWatson said:

thinfourth2 said:

Yet again the thickies will be out who think that altering the clocks will give more daylight

In winter you have 6 hours daylight and the work day is 8 hours long it is not posible to go to work and come home again in daylight unless you start work at 3pm and finish at 10am

Or start at 7 and finish at 3

Still very dark at 7am up here in the winter

But in summer it is still light at 11pm

O/T, but I recall from when a bit younger, when I was out boozing into early hours in the middle of Summer, it didn't seem to get completely dark (and that was on South Coast, not in Scotland). Thought I was imagining, but doing some reading seems that places like London only go as far as Astronomical twilight, so maybe I wasn't that drunk after all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight

[colonel c]

NoelWatson said:

thinfourth2 said:

NoelWatson said:

thinfourth2 said:

Yet again the thickies will be out who think that altering the clocks will give more daylight

In winter you have 6 hours daylight and the work day is 8 hours long it is not posible to go to work and come home again in daylight unless you start work at 3pm and finish at 10am

Or start at 7 and finish at 3

Still very dark at 7am up here in the winter

But in summer it is still light at 11pm

O/T, but I recall from when a bit younger, when I was out boozing into early hours in the middle of Summer, it didn't seem to get completely dark (and that was on South Coast, not in Scotland). Thought I was imagining, but doing some reading seems that places like London only go as far as Astronomical twilight, so maybe I wasn't that drunk after all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight

Speaking as a regular shift worker. Some nights appear to be darker than others. I expect there are many reasons for this. Such as the fullness of the moon combined with cloud cover and the ambient local light.

Anyway the days are slowly getting longer now and I expect we will have the same old arguments again around the 27th of March. When most people will have an hour less in bed but I will knock off an hour early from night shift.