clocks go back tonight.....

[stokemaveric]

the politicians want us to come into line with europe and not bother so we have longer daylight hours...so do you think we should change the clocks twice a year or change tradition???...and have more daylight???

[NazNomad]

Which part of Europe have you been to that didn't change their clocks?

[boxtops]

That was the argument in the 1970s when I lived in Scotland, one year when the clocks stayed. Why couldn't we just stay at GMT all year round? - after all, we invented it, all the clocks in the world are timed from Greenwich, firmly on the Thames in the UK!

[boxtops]

Confuses the catz no end, too.

[joeluke]

......and miss out on my extra hour in bed at the end of every October?......No way

[Dris]

Think personally it should stay as when i get home at 5 its pitch black.I have to leave for work and leave a light on so I can see where i'm going when i come home.
I would be far too dark for kids -going to school in the dark and coming home in the dark.Safety is paramount over a minor inconvenience I think.

[boxtops]

Mind you dris, it's the same as that down here on the south coast as winter progresses. I had to leave the house at 6am one day last week and it was still dark in "summertime".

[ummmm]

Isn't it England that Europe's clocks are set by??

[stokemaveric]

fair point naznomad what i meant was that the politicians want us to adopt to central european time....in effect more daylight....

[NazNomad]

Thanks for clearing that up ... I was sure that most of Europe changed their clocks. :-)

[Dris]

I belive it is boxy -its not too much of a hassle really is it?
Plus i get a laugh when they toddle past to Church either an hour early or an hour late -its the only bonus living directly opposite one and i00yds from the other one :)

[stewey]

Why don't we shrink an hour to 30 minutes, then we'd have twice as many hours of daylight?

[Pumbah]

A lot has been said today about the benefits to trade and industry if we were on CET (i.e the same time zone as the Continent.) But in the US they have 4, or is it 5, time zones for one country! Never seems to be any discussion about the Americans adopting a single time zone. And if the benefits are so great, why don't the Europeans change to GMT?

[mollykins]

Russia either has 9 or 11 I think.