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Agreed!Makes more sense for kids to come home in the light.

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I'm trying my best not to ever live in Scotland :)
I expect the time would change to be in line with GMT rather than BST.
Would BST in winter make it 10am before you get light if we switched to BST?

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Daylight savings is a good thing. Although, our clocks don't turn back until April 4.

Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and by most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona). :)

Some areas of Canada not using Daylight Saving Time include, Fort St. John, Charlie Lake, Taylor and Dawson Creek in British Columbia, Creston in the East Kootenays, and most of Saskatchewan (except Denare Beach and Creighton).

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You should know by now that some threads just have a life of thier own :)

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Like the Evil Dead :rolleyes:

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Yes - when the clocks go forward to BST, 9am becomes 10am. So if it's not properly light until 9am in the winter in Scotland, leaving things on BST would make that 10am.

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Not really, the morning rush hour is more intense than the evening because everyone goes to work and school at the same time. If we have to choose either morning or evening to benefit from daylight in winter, then morning is safest.

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Yes I liked the 'Evil Dead' but shouldnt this be in the 'Films you like' thread. ;)

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Or perhaps the even weirder "in 7 days" thread. :erm:

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What about your little one though?

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So? I am sure that if the British Isles were upside down then those in Scotland would not give a monkey's about England. I am most certainly NOT a Euorphile (?is that a word) - but I would genrally align the UK clock to Western European time

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Personally I think it might be a good idea to collapse the school day so that children go to and from school in daylight hours.Works at the school I work in.Start at 8.30,no lunch hour,just two 20 minute breaks and finish at 2.30 pm.This leaves time after school for clubs,sports fixtures and detentions and the students can be home before it is dark.With no lunch hour there is the added bonus of less time to plot mischief. ;)

Frankly in this day and age I can't see the point of the chop and change.During wartime yes there was a point but not now.I'm sure farmers can survive.

Incog.

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:Yikes: your school takes discipline a bit seriously if you plan the timetable for that. Or perhaps you have a mega problem :confused:

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'added bonus' Not the whole point.The point is to have time for the extra's at the end of the day and thus parents don't insist junior is home straight after school and there is no arguing about detentions or whether a child can be in a sports team because parents are worried about junior coming home in the dark.

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...and the thread drags on like a wounded wildebeest :D