BST in Summer, GMT in Winter
BST ( Government time ) all year
GMT (Gods time ) all year
Bring back stupid time ( double daylight saving)
don't know dint care
spare
Thai weekend we see the change from BST to Gods Time
as every the arguments continue about keeping BST even in the Winter
so what is your preference
What I don't understand is, they say it mainly for the dairy farmers but how does the farmer let the cows know?
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I hate it when they muck around with the clocks, it affects my equilibrium; pathetic I know (but at least this time of year we get an extra hour in bed, mmmm like that bit)
I had to look up what double daytime saving was and I came across this article...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...-NOT-back.html
Hey you lovely Scots, don't shoot the messenger, I didn't write it!
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"If you're going to do something tonight, that you know you'll be sorry for in the morning, plan a lie in." Lorraine
I love the long nights in the summer and i really hate the winter.
In france, they do it differently or so they discussed this morning on breakfast telly!!
They make the spring change ie: it goes back one hour for us then in the winter they put it back another hour. That way, we get continued longer days but it is dark in the mornings.
I think originally it was done not only for the farmers but also for school children walking home in the dark but whats the difference between walking home or walking too school in the dark. Also, whats kids do you know these days that walk too and from school on their own.
Anyway, vive le french way i say !!!
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I remember an experiment with this, I think it was in the late '60s or early '70s. They kept BST through the winter. We had to go to school in the dark and were issued flourescent armbands so we weren't run over in the dark on the way to school. They were like swim bands but you couldn't inflate them.
I saw one of my classmates get hit hard on the head by the black wing mirror of the bus that was taking us to school - the bus could see him but he couldn't see the black mirror in the dark as he stepped towards the kerb while the bus was pulling in
I can't imagine it was because one boy got bashed on the head in Hampshire, but the experiment was considered a failure and we went back to normal.
Was reading about this today - it was tried for 2 years. They had fewer evening car accidents, but obviously more in the morning.
Personally I'd rather keep things as they are. Yes it's depressing going home in the dark in the winter, but I live in the south central area, and even as it is currently it's only just light when I get to work at 8am in the morning. If we ended up making it lighter in the evening, I'd still be driving home in the dark in the evening (it would just go dark at 4 instead of 3, but I'd have even darker mornings).
Plus I'm married to a farmer - given they're out at 5am in the morning and wouldn't finish til about 5.30 in the winter (having to then go out later as well), it would be nice for them to get some lightness in the morning before 9am. God knows what it would be like the further north you are.
Some of the argument is having lighter evenings would make kids & adults do more exercise in the evenings as they'd be lighter for longer. But realistically, people can and do exercise indoors, and surely if it's lighter in the evenings it means more opportunities for socialising, drinking, BBQs etc - unlikely to encourage more exercise!
If they did not alter the time in the first place and just left it on GMT, it would not effect the mornings and night this time of year because the clocks are going back in autumn to the time they would have been if they had not been put forward in the spring (BST). So it would only effect the springtime.
I'm reasonably happy with how things are. After all, we are looking forward to endless months of it being dark, cold and miserable no matter what we do.
The only change I'd make is to make the clocks spring forward at the end of February instead of the end of March. I don't really understand why the change back happens about 7 weeks before the solstice in December but the change forward happens about 12 weeks after the solstice. Does anyone know the reason?
It appears there's a new type of time to add to the mix - Apple Time.
This is where one's iPhone tells one the time in GMT, but the iPhone alarm works in BST. And goes off an hour late. Those little scamps...
Anyone else hit by that one? Luckily, I was already awake when my alarm should have gone off this morning. And having breakfast when it finally did go off...
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I think the A + E numbers must have been an awfully lot higher up here during that experiment...
I am so sleepy in the mornings in winter that I am glad about the change when it comes as I can actually see where I am going at 6 - 7am!!! (Gorgeous Sunrise this morning, which has of course given way to pouring rain)
I think we should just have a job that can be done in Australia /New Zealand for 6 months I think Trampy has the ticket
WT
Looking at the poll responses, from a small sample of people (but probably a sample that has thought about it for at least a few minutes) we are split fairly evenly between staying as we are (my preference) and keeping GMT all the time (my second favourite). So far no one prefers BST all year round. I think this is the first democratic poll that I have ever felt completely comfortable with!
I think it's about right the way it is (although like jivecat I don't understand why the change in spring isn't at the equivalent time to the change in autumn).
I looked here (http://www.sunrisesunsetmap.com/) to check sunset/sunrise times for where I am.
Sunrise on 21 Dec is 08:13 GMT - and if we had BST in winter it would be 09:13 which I don't much fancy - I'd already be at work before the sun rose.
On the other hand on 21 June, sunrise is 04:43 BST and sunset is 21:31 BST. If we were still on GMT then the sun would rise at 03:43 and set at 20:31.
But unless I'm at Southport, I'm unlikely to be doing much at 03:43 in the morning, so it does make sense to take the hour from the morning and have an extra hour's daylight in the evening between 20:31 and 21:31 when I'm awake.
So my vote is to leave things as they are.
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So we have all just "lost" an hour , but we get it back in November.
But, if the government makes the change permanent, we will all lose an hour, for ever .
Were does that hour go?
If everyone in the UK loses an hour , will we have lost 7,000 Years
Can Brian Cox answerer that
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