Clocks to go forward 2 Hrs ?

[redman41]

Any one else think this is a good idea or would you prefer to continue with the current situation Summer time 1 Hour ahead.
Personally I would prefer to stick to GMT all year round.
If memory serves me correctly I think moving the Clocks started during the last War.


http://www.telegraph....orward-two-hours.html

[starone]

It was called Double British Summertime. I will vote for anyone who says they will stop mucking about with the clocks. Set it somewhere sensible and leave it there.

[Old_Geezer]

Personally I'd prefer all my clocks update themselves using the radio signal, and the clock time changed such that daylight most closely matchs the hours I am awake, all through the year (perhaps in monthly step changes). What I don't need is some fool to try to force a 'one size fits none' "solution" over a vast area of the world.

So depending on what this is about, it could be ok, or not.

[Marijn]

I would love to have longer lighter evenings.

[ljdksa]

Me too. I would prefer British Summer Time permanently, for the lighter evenings, but if we stopped changing the clocks, the default time would be GMT.

[redman41]

If most are satisfied with the current Clock times why change things just for the sake of it.......

[DTCwordfan]

(i) It brings us into line with the EU main economies - pan EU trips, meetings and controls on stocks/shares/currency/trading etc

(ii) Advantages for tourism in prolonging the evenings

(iii) As to agriculture, tough. Tony Blair destroyed that part of the economy and it only makes up 2% of GDP. Tourism makes up over 12%

(iv) Schoolchildren - most of them are driven by parents/buses etc - as to speed legislate for 20mph in residential estates and around schools (latter during opening and closing). Double fines for any offence in the school zones

(v) Let Scotland & N Ireland (and the Irish) decide their own fate in this. Gives them something to get worked upon emotionally/politically and gives them the semblance of being in control of their destiny/

[Marijn]

I love British Summer Time, it lifts my mood. People with S.A.D. would be happier with longer lighter evenings too.

[Old_Geezer]

http://www.watchshop....orward$800419257.html

It seems it does go back again when we return to GMT. But it is insane to make a 2 hour jump at once, we'll all be asleep at out desks. More sensible to make more than one change and sympathise with all those who have to change their 57 clocks, 4 times or more a year.

[starone]

It is ridiculous to say it is for the farmers. Any farmer worth his salt gets up at the crack of dawn whatever the time and stops work at eventide, whenever that happens to be. Or employs other people to do it for him!

[KARL]

The proposed new system will no doubt be great because it will produce much more daylight than has ever before been available from the sun. Best of all, because nobody has the courage to adjust their start and stop to different clock-time so it suits them better, there will be endless reasons for moaning. And for the traditionalists (i.e. supporters of the 100 year old tradition that scuppered the tradition before that) there will be the twice a year ritual of adjusting the clocks by one or more hours to confirm nothing is allowed to be simple.

[Old_Geezer]

Unilaterally changing your own time puts you out of sync with the rest of the community, so isn't an ideal solution.

[karenmac60]

Karl, it's only the clocks that are changing, the days will be the same length. How can you get 'much more daylight than has ever before been available from the sun.'? The mornings will just be darker for longer - and most folk are up before it's light in winter as it is.

[what..the?]

i work until 5 and then have an hours drive home I don't get an evening so would like it too be lighter in the evenings, it will help tourism too

[annie0000]

The nights are already light enough 'til late in the summer up here. I think we should split it north and south and have "Scottish" time.

[what..the?]

I guess the people that work a lot will like the change, the people who don't work or work part time won't care, and don't want to be bothered to change the clocks....

[karenmac60]

I think the problem is more to do with the mornings what the? It won't get light in Scotland till about 10am! That's not good for kids walking to school - and not all children are driven as some poster previously stated.

Annie - I agree, if they are determined then we should be able to have our own time :)

[annie0000]

to be fair, it wouldn't worry me either way in the summer, winter is a different matter. With the current system, in the summer at the longest day point in Scotland, it gets light about 3 am ish but doesn't get dark til midnight. In the mid winter it doesn't get light until near 9am and is dark by 3.45.

[karenmac60]

Summer would be the same as it is now Annie - it would be in winter they would put the clocks forward instead of back.