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Dirk

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
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Watchet
Happy birthday @gavroche it's mine next Friday:okay:
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Good morning all.
The weather is going to be pretty horrible this morning.
Woke up at 5.30, which was 6.30 yesterday. All this cobblers about getting an extra hours sleep is phooey. You still sleep the same amount of time, hence waking up early. By 10 tonight, everyone will be tired because of the extra hour this morning.
Why the clocks have to change is beyond me now. Keep the time at BST, call it British Standard Time and leave things alone. There is only so much daylight naturally anyway.

Anyway, lunch with some friends later on, something to look forward to.
We tried that, remember!
"The definition of British Standard Time in the dictionary is the standard time used in Britain all the year round from 1968 to 1971, set one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and equalling Central European Time."
 

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Good morning all. All together now : Happy birthday to Gavroche (repeat).
Going for lunch booked at 1pm on Anglesey, 17 of us. Because I intend to have a drink, I am not driving there and not paying the bill either.
My daughter has made me a Birthday cake which I will post on here much later on. :hello:


And a HAPPY birthday from me as well. 21 again i suspect?
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
We tried that, remember!
"The definition of British Standard Time in the dictionary is the standard time used in Britain all the year round from 1968 to 1971, set one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and equalling Central European Time."
Didn't we have double summer time between those years also?
 
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I'm pretty certain that I remember double summertime and I wasn't around in the 40s.
Edit: My mistake. It's the years when we didn't change the clocks that I remember - 1968 -1971. :okay:

There were a few years when they didn't change the clocks, somewhere around 1970.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
“British Double Summer Time”

There have been periods in UK history where DST was 2 hours ahead of standard time. This is known as “British Double Summer Time” (BDST), “Double Summer Time,” or “Double British Summer Time.”

During World War II the UK went on an extended DST period from February 25, 1940 to October 7, 1945, effectively adding 1 hour to the time zone (UTC+1). During the DST period in the summer, another hour was added to the time zone (UTC+2).

There was another period of BDST in 1947, which was brought on by severe fuel shortages in the country.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/uk/time-zone-background.html
 
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