British summer time

Ramrod · 24-03-2004, 15:25

Dont forget, clocks go forward on Saturday night/ Sunday morning! One less hour in bed

http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/sumtimetb.htm

**Rob** · 24-03-2004, 15:30

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Dont forget, clocks go forward on Saturday night/ Sunday morning! One less hour in bed

http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/sumtimetb.htm

Or one hour less awake if you slob around on a Sunday like me.

peachey · 24-03-2004, 15:31

it's absurd

I wish they would stop doing it

they did stop once a few years ago but started up
again for some reason

zendawn · 24-03-2004, 15:44

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Originally Posted by peachey

it's absurd

I wish they would stop doing it

they did stop once a few years ago but started up
again for some reason

If they did stop would you prefer
'Light mornings and dark evenings' OR
'Dark mornings and light evenings'?

I'd prefer the later.

24-03-2004, 15:52

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Originally Posted by peachey

it's absurd

I wish they would stop doing it

they did stop once a few years ago but started up
again for some reason

go live in the States, theres a few states that dont observe this practice such as Indiana. Now that is confusing!!

Nugget · 24-03-2004, 15:52

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Originally Posted by zendawn

If they did stop would you prefer
'Light mornings and dark evenings' OR
'Dark mornings and light evenings'?

I'd prefer the later.

I agree - I can live with going to work on the dark, but I really hate leaving at 5 o'clock and having to put the headlights on

peachey · 24-03-2004, 16:00

maybe they could sort of go half way - put them forward half an hour
and leave it like that as a sort of compromise

in Australia, Queensland and NSW have different views on it

so one does daylight saving the other not

there is a pub on the actual border in tweed heads where
you can celebrate new years eve at one end of the bar and then
at the other end an hours later as the pub spans the border

24-03-2004, 16:12

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Originally Posted by peachey

there is a pub on the actual border in tweed heads where
you can celebrate new years eve at one end of the bar and then
at the other end an hours later as the pub spans the border

kewl, when the pub shuts you just move to the other end of the bar for the last hour!!

**Paul M** · 24-03-2004, 16:13

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Originally Posted by zendawn

If they did stop would you prefer
'Light mornings and dark evenings' OR
'Dark mornings and light evenings'?

I'd prefer the later.

What is the relevance of either question ?

In the winter you have dark mornings and dark evenings, in the summer both are light. In spring and Autumn you change from one to the other - all the change to BST achieves is to slightly change the migration from one to the other for a few weeks.

It's a totally pointless change that costs millions in wasted time.

zendawn · 24-03-2004, 16:21

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Originally Posted by pem

What is the relevance of either question ?
It's a totally pointless change that costs millions in wasted time.

Oooh hark at her and her handbag!

It's obviously relavent as someone went to the effort of making the change in the first place.

Ramrod · 24-03-2004, 16:39

pmsl@ this thread (and I started it!)
It was just meant to be a 'heads up' about the clocks going forward, not a free form winge

dilligaf1701 · 24-03-2004, 16:41

One less hour in bed eh.....

I guess I'll have to catch up by having a nap when I get to work Sunday morning.

**Stuart** · 24-03-2004, 16:44

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Originally Posted by zendawn

Oooh hark at her and her handbag!

It's obviously relavent as someone went to the effort of making the change in the first place.

I believe (I am sure somebody will correct me if I am wrong) that the change was to allow farmers more daylight for farming?

ZrByte · 24-03-2004, 16:45

How does it cost millions??? Last time I checked I didnt have to pay to put the clock back :pp

the point in this by the way is to ballance out the day in the summer, for e.g. would you really want it to stay light until about midnight? (Sun goes down at 10:30 mid summer, if it wasnt for putting the clocks foreward the sun wouldnt set until 11:30) a lot of people cant sleep during the day so this would certtainly unsettle these people. Allthough I would prefer later daylight To be honest.

The original point in daylight savings was to save on candle wax during the winter, If I remember correctly. Bascicly it is to optomise the day so that pretty much all working is done in daylight.

**Chris** · 24-03-2004, 16:47

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Originally Posted by zendawn

If they did stop would you prefer
'Light mornings and dark evenings' OR
'Dark mornings and light evenings'?

I'd prefer the later.

You wouldn't say that if you lived in Scotland. In the dead of winter, it's not fully daylight in Glasgow until almost 9am. If the whole UK switches permanently to BST, you would be expecting people to spend half their morning in darkness. It's a little unfair.