The End of Summer Time

[Glow worm]

Of course we could do it - but this is not a vast continent. It's frankly impractical on a tiny island. Which is why we should just adopt CET and be done with it. IMHO.

I think that if a place like Kentucky can survive perfectly adequately being split right down the middle on two time zones, I'm pretty sure we could manage it here

 

[Saddle bum]

GMT sucks.

I've been waiting all my life for the Govt to keep its endless promises on the introduction of CET.

When elected it get quietly forgotten, just to keep the Jockanese happy.

 

[Mr Celine]

This is a very useful site
http://www.sat24.com/

Have a look at it around sunrise or sunset - click the 'visual' button if it's on infrared.

Compare the red dot marking London with those marking Berlin or Copenhagen. Note that it gets light and dark roughly one hour earlier in Berlin or Copenhagen. As they are about 15 degrees east of Greenwich their correct time zone is Central European Time.

The Germans, Danes, Swedes, Italians etc seem content to be in the correct time zone for their longitude. If it was such a good idea for us to be in CET it would be an equally good idea for them to be in Eastern European Time. So why don't they have an argument every October about which time zone they should be in?

 

[Night Train]

Why change the clocks? Time is arbitary anyway so we might as well leave it at one system and then change the time of day we do stuff.

 

[Paulus]

My personal preference would be to leave the clocks on BST. You could call it British Standard Time if you wanted. I get cheesed off every year of the same arguments for and against moving the time around. Leave it alone I say.

 

[ianrauk]

Just noticed this on the BBC Site


Russian clocks stay on summertime

By Daniel Sandford


Russia has not put its clocks back for winter this year, after President Dmitry Medvedev decided the country would stay permanently in summertime.Mr Medvedev announced his decision in March, saying it was in order to relieve the stress of changing clocks.

Officials at the time talked about an annual increase in suicides.

It means that this winter in Russia the mornings will be darker for longer, but there will be more daylight in the afternoons.

So, as almost all of Northern Europe set its clocks back overnight, Russia did nothing, opting instead to remain on summertime for the whole year.

But because Russia is almost alone in sticking to summertime it has meant that businesses like banks, and in particular airlines and railways, have had an extra complication this autumn.

 

[Archie_tect]

We invent time and set Greenwich as the default from which everyone else in the world sets their time.... and then people try and tell us that we got it wrong. How embarrassing.

 

[Saddle bum]

We invent time and set Greenwich as the default from which everyone else in the world sets their time.... and then people try and tell us that we got it wrong. How embarrassing.

The time zone we decide to operate in only determines the position of the Sun at any particular time. Presently, during the Winter, the Sun is at its meridian at 12:00hrs, when logically, because of the positioning of the working day, it should be 13:00hrs - giving us lighter afternoons, (at the expense of darker mornings).

 

[Night Train]

I blame the railways.....

 

[Paulus]

I blame the railways.....

The Great Western Railway to be precise. Brunel has a lot to answer for.

 

[Mr Celine]

The time zone we decide to operate in only determines the position of the Sun at any particular time. Presently, during the Winter, the Sun is at its meridian at 12:00hrs, when logically, because of the positioning of the working day, it should be 13:00hrs - giving us lighter afternoons, (at the expense of darker mornings).

Whose working day?

Outdoor trades round here, (e.g. builders) who need daylight to work, normally work 8:00 to 16:00.

 

[rsvdaz]

Whose working day?

Outdoor trades round here, (e.g. builders) who need daylight to work, normally work 8:00 to 16:00.

and why cant they work 9:00 to 17:00