Uk Daylight Saving ....

[seekeerz]

Starting when ?

[Mamyalynne]

Here Seekz


https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/uk/london?year=2016

[twix123]

UK reverts to GMT on 30th. October.

Bit better than UK Daylight Robbery!

[1ozzy]

In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October. The period when the clocks are 1 hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST). There's more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings (sometimes called Daylight Saving Time).

Hi Seekz, Weather improved down there yet?

[Buenchico]

Starting???

Seekerz seems to have forgotten that our seasons are reversed from those in Oz!

'British Summer Time' (as we call it) always runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October.

So this year it ENDS on Sunday 30 October.

[seekeerz]

Thanks mamya and twix ....of course you're going back, as we've just gone forward ...Cor trying to keep up !! I'm too old for this :))

[1ozzy]

//our seasons are reversed//

So it's not the colonials that are backward ;-/

[Buenchico]

>>> as we've just gone forward

Unless, of course, you're in Queensland, the Northern Territory or Western Australia, where nothing's changed ;-)

[seekeerz]

Morning 1ozzy ....yes quite an improvement, a few sunny days last week bit scruffy over the weekend, but all in all, not bad.

I feel for the people who've been flooded out twice ..or more ..in the past couple of weeks, and the clean up bill will be horrendous !

[Buenchico]

>>> So it's not the colonials that are backward

Let's not mix up Australians with Americans, 1ozzy ;-)

[seekeerz]

Oh Chris ..did you take a double dose of your 'pedantic pills' !!!

You know I don't live up norff with the funny folk !!

[1ozzy]

;-)

[Jackdaw33]

I remember from 1968 - 1971 we had BST all year round. It was not popular.

[seekeerz]

Blimey what's all this then ...keyboards at twenty paces !! Behave boys !! Or I'll set mamya's elbows onto you both !!

[seekeerz]

Why was that, Jack ....

[Buenchico]

>>> I remember from 1968 - 1971 we had BST all year round. It was not popular


The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents wants to see one hour added to GMT during the winter and two hours added during the summer:
http://www.rospa.com/road-safety/advice/road-users/british-summertime-fact-sheet/

[Jackdaw33]

The two hours added in the summer never happened. The idea was eventually dropped as in Northern Scotland it did not become daylight till 10 a.m., playing havoc with the farmers' routine.

[Buenchico]

>>> Why was that

'British Standard Time' (as it was called) meant, among other things, that children had to go to school, and start their school day, in the dark (particularly in Scotland and the north of England). At a time when most children walked, on their own, to and from school, it was seen as increasing the risks to their safety.