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Personally hate dark evenings my self its depressing"
I think I'd agree although I haven't given it much thought.
I'm likely to be doing less at 6am than 6pm so the extra light in the evening would be better. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'd vote for gmt+2, more natural light making less electrical demand, likely to be warmer too, so slightly cheaper heating..
Tbh, as long as it's fixed I'd happy with that, all this clock resetting nonsense needs to end! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Simple to sort really ?
If the clocks go forward an hour then back an hour surely moving them forward would
Half an hour should be perfect time ?
And keep everyone happy  |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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This matter of permanent BST was experimented with back one year around 1970. Though there were good points related to it, the negatives outnumbered the positives.
The problem was that the further North in the UK you lived, it got light later. I remember going to school near Edinburgh and it was still dark at 8am. The far North of Scotland wouldn't get daylight till between 9am and 10am. It cost farmers a fortune as,well as beng detrimental to other businesses and the Government decided to keep things as they were. |
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"This matter of permanent BST was experimented with back one year around 1970. Though there were good points related to it, the negatives outnumbered the positives.
The problem was that the further North in the UK you lived, it got light later. I remember going to school near Edinburgh and it was still dark at 8am. The far North of Scotland wouldn't get daylight till between 9am and 10am. It cost farmers a fortune as,well as beng detrimental to other businesses and the Government decided to keep things as they were."
I don't agree, I lived on the west coast of Ireland, they have exactly the same problem due to sticking to GMT and BST and being actually a time zone westwards.
The business day simply stated later, it was great light till midnight during the summer and that extra hour during the winter. I could get my shopping at 21:00 even in 1980, here Tesco's was long shut.
Personally I for GMT+2 during the summer and GMT+1 during winter, but I like outdoor activities, actually scrap that GMT+2 all year round. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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take heed of the experiment in Portugal, changing the time zone was a disaster.
"The change was foisted upon an unsuspecting public by the Lisbon government. Politicians there deployed identical arguments to those now being fed to Britons by the Bill’s supporters.
The official line in Portugal was that moving the clocks forward by one hour would create jobs, reduce road deaths and encourage participation in sport. But the opposite proved to be the case and the government had to heed public opinion and return to GMT.
The Lisbon government made the switch in 1992 to bring Portugal into line with many other European countries. But it soon became clear that Portugal’s position on the western edge of Europe meant it had more in common with Britain than with Germany or Poland.
The hugely unpopular and costly experiment was abandoned in 1996 after a government commission condemned it as a spectacular failure.
The Portuguese found that changing to Berlin Time – officially known as Continental Time – led to poorer exam results as children could not get to sleep because of the lighter evenings and were therefore tired at school the following day.
There was also an increase in stress levels, insomnia and consumption of sleeping pills. More road accidents occurred during the darker winter mornings and energy bills rose because households used more electricity."
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By *heOwlMan
over a year ago
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Leave it as it is please.
I try to spend as much of my free time rowing on the canal so BST means that the light evenings cover more of the year. However once the evenings finally close in GMT works better as it means the mornings are brighter which makes cycling to work a tad safer (always supprising how many people walk along the canal bank dressed completely in black rendering them hard to spot even with my 2000 lumin lights.) |
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By *heOwlMan
over a year ago
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As for saving electricity, actually it would probably use more, as we would all be using electric lighting for longer in the mornings, rather than just the lighting in the office.
Love the idea of shifting the clocks resulting in saving on heating, sorry but its only shifting the hours most people are awake not actually adding more light hour to the day.  |
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