Clocks go back this weekend!

[delc]

The clocks go back 1 hour this coming Sunday (25th October). As usual I have to ask why? It just condemns us to long dark evenings and wastes energy for no particularly good reason I can see! Maybe keeps a few Scottish farmers happy, but that's about it! :angry:

 

[patricks148]

The clocks go back 1 hour this coming Sunday (25th October). As usual I have to ask why? It just condemns us to long dark evenings and wastes energy for no particularly good reason I can see! Maybe keeps a few Scottish farmers happy, but that's about it! :angry:

not to mention a few Scottish Children

 

[bladeplayer]

not to mention a few Scottish Children

Scottish Farmers kids must be over the moon so ..

 

[Grogger]

You get an extra hour on the weekend.

Stop moaning

 

[NWJocko]

How do you get through life when everything winds you up so much Del?

Be thankful you obviously have an easy enough life if the nonsense you whine about on here is the worst of your worries :thup:

 

[freddielong]

The clocks go back 1 hour this coming Sunday (25th October). As usual I have to ask why? It just condemns us to long dark evenings and wastes energy for no particularly good reason I can see! Maybe keeps a few Scottish farmers happy, but that's about it! :angry:

I think the point to remember is that BST is the best half of the year but bst is the bit that we would loose if they decided to stick with one it would be get all year around.

So don't rock the the boat.

 

[Craigg]

If I wake up on Sunday, then that'll do for me.Who cares what the clock says?:thup:

 

[fundy]

I think the point to remember is that BST is the best half of the year but bst is the bit that we would loose if they decided to stick with one it would be get all year around.

So don't rock the the boat.

on what basis? last proposal that was going to go to the commons wasnt removing bst

 

[williamalex1]

I remember they tried not changing the clocks back in 68/69 i think.

It was a complete disaster in Scotland , kids going to school in darkness etc .

I don't see any major problems in having 2 different time zones within the UK .

 

[CliveW]

Maybe keeps a few Scottish farmers happy, but that's about it! :angry:

At least you won't have to worry if you are on Alpha or Zulu times.

 

[Khamelion]

If you lived in Morocco, you'd follow GMT and BST, except during Ramadan, hen the clocks go back to GMT, so they change their clock 4 times a year. don't think they have to worry to much about it being dark, but hell, that's what hi-vis fluorescent vests and torches are for.

 

[c1973]

Most kids are taken to school in mummys car nowadays anyway (as can be witnessed by the daily disregard for others, including other children, around school when dropping their own brats off), so really do we actually need to change the clocks if that's the main reason for it?

I'm not sure we do.

 

[delc]

I think the point to remember is that BST is the best half of the year but bst is the bit that we would loose if they decided to stick with one it would be get all year around.

So don't rock the the boat.

I am suggesting permanent BST (shall we call it British Standard Time?). It's the GMT bit I want to get rid of because it wastes daylight hours for the majority of the U.K. population. Double Summer Time would be even better for the Summer months.

 

[williamalex1]

Most kids are taken to school in mummys car nowadays anyway (as can be witnessed by the daily disregard for others, including other children, around school when dropping their own brats off), so really do we actually need to change the clocks if that's the main reason for it?

I'm not sure we do.

Have you ever tried to connect cables , dig a hole , hammer a nail in, lay bricks or even roughcast in the dark ????? .

We outdoor construction workers, had to start and finish work1 hour later during the experiment.

 

[delc]

Most kids are taken to school in mummys car nowadays anyway (as can be witnessed by the daily disregard for others, including other children, around school when dropping their own brats off), so really do we actually need to change the clocks if that's the main reason for it?

I'm not sure we do.

I believe the last time permanent BST was tried, the number of Scottish school children killed on their journeys to and from school actually fell. Not that you would think this from the hysterical reaction from North of the Border at the time!

 

[delc]

Have you ever tried to connect cables , dig a hole , hammer a nail in, lay bricks or even roughcast in the dark ????? .

We had to start and finish work1 hour later during the experiment.

So? You didn't have to work any more hours did you!

 

[freddielong]

on what basis? last proposal that was going to go to the commons wasnt removing bst

I just assumed that as bst was when we chose to step out of sync then that would be the one we would loose, if we could stay bst al year round I would vote for that.

 

[freddielong]

I am suggesting permanent BST (shall we call it British Standard Time?). It's the GMT bit I want to get rid of because it wastes daylight hours for the majority of the U.K. population. Double Summer Time would be even better for the Summer months.

Yes please

 

[williamalex1]

So? You didn't have to work any more hours did you!

I didn't say i did

 

[Fyldewhite]

I am suggesting permanent BST (shall we call it British Standard Time?). It's the GMT bit I want to get rid of because it wastes daylight hours for the majority of the U.K. population. Double Summer Time would be even better for the Summer months.

+1

Why oh why we have 2 hours of light before 6 in the morning when nearly everyone is still asleep is beyond me. Much better to have some of that light in the evening. It could be light until midnight in the middle of summer and still light at 10 at the end of August. Great for golf but also great for saving energy, reducing late night crime etc.

what we do in winter doesn't really bother me.......it's just dark and miserable most of the time.