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Originally Posted by Jerrek
Why not let the counties that want to use summer time use it, and those that don't don't have to? Let Scotland use it if they want, and England not if they don't want to...
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I think you're forgetting that the UK is on a completely different geographic scale to North America. A great many people live in one county and work in another, or do business across different counties. If such a large number of people crammed into such a small space all had to start trying to remember who was on which time zone, there would be chaos. It simply wouldn't be worth the trouble.
Actually, re-reading your post, are you confused about what a county is in the UK? Scotland and England are not counties, they are seperate and distinct nations joined as a single State called the United Kingdom. Within each nation there are counties, just as you have them within your states in the US - e.g. Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire in England; Aberdeenshire, East Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire in Scotland.
Personally I don't think any change is worth the trouble. This is a story the Press run every year to fill a few column inches but I think the chances of anything changing are pretty much zero.