Clocks go back this weekend!

[delc]

Yes please

Glad somebody agrees with me!

 

[c1973]

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.

Yep. I'm working outside on a daily basis..........well I say working......



Winter hours?

 

[freddielong]

Glad somebody agrees with me!

I would vote for anyone who promised that even Corbyn double British summer time amazing idea.

Playing golf at midnight in June bliss

 

[ger147]

+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.

I love the early mornings in the summer, finished a few rounds before 9am

 

[BTatHome]

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein.

 

[KenL]

I play golf in the morning (best for me as like to spend my weekend afternoons with my wife).

Living not very far north in Scotland for about one month of the year it is not light until about 8.15 or so. Without going back to GMT, I would be late home and would be more likely to have to miss my Sat/Sun golf.

The double BST suggestion is madness. It would not get light until about 11am in the north of the UK before daylight in winter. This is unworkable for a very large number of people.

 

[DCB]

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!

A rather flippant response. In Edinburgh a mid December morning and the streetlights were still on until well after 9am. We walked to school with reflective tabard on to make us visible to drivers.

Unfortunately, road statistics may say one thing, but, personal experience says something else, having known two young boys who were casualties in road traffic accidents on their way to school during that experiment. Only people I knew in all my years at school who were killed in a road accident. And yes it was dark !

 

[delc]

I play golf in the morning (best for me as like to spend my weekend afternoons with my wife).

Living not very far north in Scotland for about one month of the year it is not light until about 8.15 or so. Without going back to GMT, I would be late home and would be more likely to have to miss my Sat/Sun golf.

The double BST suggestion is madness. It would not get light until about 11am in the north of the UK before daylight in winter. This is unworkable for a very large number of people.

Double BST is only proposed for the Summer months!

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Thread reopened after a tidy up

any more problems and it will be closed.

Simples

 

[williamalex1]

Thread reopened after a tidy up

any more problems and it will be closed.

Simples

So you're turning the clock back :smirk:

 

[PhilTheFragger]

So you're turning the clock back :smirk:

Boom boom ,

 

[williamalex1]

So we're really going to be treated like mushrooms .

 

[Sweep]

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 .

It was great in England. I agree. There should be two time zones

 

[williamalex1]

It was great in England. I agree. There should be two time zones

:thup:

 

[john0]

It was great in England. I agree. There should be two time zones

Think they should rebuild the wall too

 

[williamalex1]

Think they should rebuild the wall too

Yip, and then extend it right up the east coast :smirk:

 

[Billythefish]

The way i played last weekend my clubs are going back an all!

 

[williamalex1]

The way i played last weekend my clubs are going back an all!

Class comment , but 1st class will cost you :rofl:

 

[delc]

A rather flippant response. In Edinburgh a mid December morning and the streetlights were still on until well after 9am. We walked to school with reflective tabard on to make us visible to drivers.

Unfortunately, road statistics may say one thing, but, personal experience says something else, having known two young boys who were casualties in road traffic accidents on their way to school during that experiment. Only people I knew in all my years at school who were killed in a road accident. And yes it was dark !

Whilst obviously very sad for the individual families concerned, the statistics showed that although slightly more Scottish children were killed walking to school in the dark winter mornings, this was more than balanced out by fewer being killed as they walked back home again in the lighter evenings. The theory behind this was that drivers were more alert in the mornings than the evenings, by which time they were becoming tired after working all day, as well as the improved visibility.

 

[Slab]

Whilst obviously very sad for the individual families concerned, the statistics showed that although slightly more Scottish children were killed walking to school in the dark winter mornings, Tthis was more than balanced out by fewer being killed as they walked back home again in the lighter evenings. The theory behind this was that drivers were more alert in the mornings than the evenings, by which time they were becoming tired after working all day, as well as the improved visibility.

Didn't the new drink drive laws come into force at the same time though, so the numbers could be skewed due to this initiative