Day light saving good or bad

[dondare]

Wouldn't a logical way to increase daylight hours in winter be to decrease the amount of minutes per hour during daylight hours, and re-distribute them during the hours of darkness?

10 hours at 45 minutes per hour would give you a 10 hour working day from 08:00 till 15:30, finishing a whole 90 minutes before it gets dark. Plenty of time for the commute in daylight at both ends.

A 10 hour working day with the current (outdated) 60 minutes per hour, would see you finishing work at 18:00 from an 08:00 start. 1 WHOLE HOUR after dark!!

I don't know how I do it. I surprise myself sometimes!

It's what the Romans did. Their day was sun-up to sun-down and had shorter hours in Winter. This was more noticable on the more Northern parts of their empire: Britanicus, for example.

 

[ComedyPilot]

It's what the Romans did. Their day was sun-up to sun-down and had shorter hours in Winter. This was more noticable on the more Northern parts of their empire: Britanicus, for example.

Well, when in Rome....just don't think it would wash at work tomorrow.

 

[marinyork]

First day after clocks change. Had 2 SMIDSYs, the first of which was potentially very serious as I ended up 3 inches from the guy's window staring in at him after breaking very hard. I think he got the point, nothing was said between us. Enough said really.

 

[dondare]

First day after clocks change. Had 2 SMIDSYs, the first of which was potentially very serious as I ended up 3 inches from the guy's windscreen staring in at him after breaking very hard. I think he got the point, nothing was said between us. Enough said really.

If you look anything like your avatar that must have come as a bit of a shock for him.

 

[marinyork]

Haven't had one for ages. Poor bloke was a bit surprised but I think lesson learned for him without more serious consequences. I do think GMT in the winter is more dangerous than keeping +1 all year round and that's without the antics tonight.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Added bonus is that my car clock now shows the correct time.

So does mine!

 

[dodgy]

We should stay at BST all year round, if we did, I'd be able to extend my cycling season by approximately 2 months (I don't commute). Complete waste of time (see what I did there?).

Dave.

 

[hackbike 6]

Originally Posted by Plax
Added bonus is that my car clock now shows the correct time.

Mine doesn't as I don't have a car.

 

[Tynan]

is it still for the supposed benefit of farm workers?

irrelevant really as far as i care, there's a lot more dark about really, end of

 

[ChrisKH]

I don't like it. It's a pain getting the kids body clocks adjusted. I expect some very early wake up calls for the rest of this week

Ditto. Kids just don't take notice of it. Mine were up at 5.30 am on Sunday (usually get up some time between 6.00 and 7.15, but after 6.45 if lucky). 6.15 am yesterday and today. It woudn't be so bad but you have to drag them round to 7.00 pm at the earliest the same day without them melting down, or they have a tendency about 5.00 pm of falling asleep without eating their tea with all the problem that entails.

 

[dondare]

The point about GMT is that it puts 12.00 noon at midday (according to the position of the Sun) which makes sense in a kind of "it's obviously right" kind of way.
At Grenwich.
Which is in London, England, which is the centre of the Universe.
If we abandon GMT for good then we're surrending one more symbol of our National dominance and there's not that many of them left.

 

[magnatom]

Ditto. Kids just don't take notice of it. Mine were up at 5.30 am on Sunday (usually get up some time between 6.00 and 7.15, but after 6.45 if lucky). 6.15 am yesterday and today. It woudn't be so bad but you have to drag them round to 7.00 pm at the earliest the same day without them melting down, or they have a tendency about 5.00 pm of falling asleep without eating their tea with all the problem that entails.

Actually, it worked out fine for me this time. My youngest has a nasty cold and has been sleeping poorly during the night, so none of us actually have a body clock to go wrong anymore......

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I prefer it now - at least I can get up more easily in the morning for a while. I have no problems with cycling home in the dark. By the time I head home it was already dark anyway, so what difference does it make being a hour 'more dark'?!

 

[CopperBrompton]

I don't particularly care one way or the other about DST, but I'd put in a strong vote for switching to CET. That one-hour time difference can be a real nuisance at times.

 

[Graham O]

It does waste energy (lighting comes on an hour earlier).

Don't think so. The lights also go out an hour earlier in the morning.