Clocks!
Don't forget! 1 hour back
Lucky me isn't on the night shift :0)
Though it's always a never ending source of entertaiment taking the mick out of the Early shift when the unsuspecting turn up and hour early.
Lee D
-- "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Same in the US. Seems that we really might be "Englishmen gone wrong" as Alistar Cooke once said (In jest, I believe).
Arden Portland Oregon USA '93 Range Rover County LWB (Vogue LSE)
'Bout time we ditched all this tedious screwing around with clocks and left everything on BST all year round. What's the point in putting the clocks back an hour and making it dark both when you go out and come home, it's been proven that there are more accidents in the evenings after the clocks go back so why do it? Badger.
Here in Australia we're going forward one hour - summer is on the way!
What, and give the southerners what they want!
You're one of the last people who I would have expected to support the idea. What does Derry think?
Having witnessed the late 1960's trial when in Glasgow, I found that not seeing proper daylight until mid-morning was most depressing ..... and you are much further north than that.
"Dougal" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@eclipse.net.uk...
Hmmm.... do I sense a touch of resistance based on the positioning of a border? ;-)
Why do you say that?
Well, I can't comment on that trial as I wasn't born until 1965 and I appreciate what you say re. mid-morning, although having said that it's daylight on the Moray coast by 8.30 - 9.00am even in the darkest period of the winter so I don't see an extra hour making all that much difference to anyone for the 3 or 4 weeks of real darkness right in the middle of the winter, if you were getting that hour back later in the afternoon. Was the trial only in Glasgow? If so, there are logistical horrors for commuters nowadays and any further trial would need to be country-wide, it would also tie us in nicely with CET for those companies who do a lot of business with Europe. As much as I'm anti-European at heart (an island is an island etc etc), I appreciate the needs of business's that rely on export trade. If I were given the choice between darkness at both ends of the working day or just one end, I'd go for one end only, any time. I remember growing up in Falkirk (Not my choice! ;-) ) as a kid and being thoroughly depressed even then about going both to and from school in the dark!! The body is more alert after a good sleep than after a days work, hence the safety issues with travelling home in the dark, and there are a lot more vehicles on the roads carrying more commuters than ever before so maybe it's time to drop old differences and change for the better? Even extending the BST timescales by a month either end would be a start, surely? Badger.
On or around Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:24:12 +0000 (UTC), "Badger" enlightened us thusly:
Well, I reckon it should be left on GMT, instead of arsing about with this foreign time...
originally, Daylight Saving time was done so as to get as much done in the daylight hours, by conning people into getting up earlier. As to being dark... well, it's less dark in the morning. If you will live in the far north where it's only daylight for about 5 minutes...:-)
Besides, you lot up there always complain about this. I don't see anyone complaining when you get an extra hour's light in midsummer. I've heard (though not seen it meself) that it almost doesn't get dark in midsummer on Shetland.
argghh nooooo you will no doubt be glad for the end of a horrible cold winter {8-P Derek
Dougal wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@eclipse.net.uk:
Derry disapproves of bureaucratic meddling in anything. Some twit down at Greenwich on a power trip I expect.
I can alter the clocks, but what about my biological clock? Why don't the silly beggars just get up an hour earlier/later and leave the rest of us in peace?
Derry
Cold??? You mean it gets colder than 20°C anywhere???
Karen, in Brisbane where it was 32°C today :)
Not necessarily a border but most certainly in this context a line drawn E-W through somewhere in the area of Watford.
Purely on geographical grounds.
No it was UK-wide and I think it lasted two years.
Then there are those of us who deal with persons whose clocks are way off in the other direction. But what really gets to me is the attitude of those in and around London (and it is largely they who seem so keen on year-round BST) who believe that their interests must come first and stu.. the rest of you!
I'd go with darkness at only one end of the working day certainly but, as a very definite non-morning person, for me it would have to be light in the morning.
Now that's more like it! Well said, sir.
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