British summer time

Originally Posted by Nugget

I agree - I can live with going to work on the dark, but I really hate leaving at 5 o'clock and having to put the headlights on

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

[zendawn]

Originally Posted by towny

You wouldn't say that if you lived in Scotland. In the dead of winter, it's not fully daylight in Glasgow until almost 9am. If the whole UK switches permanently to BST, you would be expecting people to spend half their morning in darkness. It's a little unfair.

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?

[Jerrek]

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).

[MovedGoalPosts]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

pmsl@ this thread (and I started it!)
It was just meant to be a 'heads up' about the clocks going forward, not a free form winge

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

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts

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

Like the Evil Dead

Originally Posted by zendawn

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?

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.

Originally Posted by Incognitas

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

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.

[zendawn]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Like the Evil Dead

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

[MovedGoalPosts]

Originally Posted by zendawn

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

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

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

One less hour in bed eh.....

I guess I'll have to catch up by having a nap when I get to work Sunday morning.

What about your little one though?

[snodvan]

Originally Posted by towny

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.

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

Originally Posted by towny

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.

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.

[MovedGoalPosts]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

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.

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

Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts

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

'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.

[Ramrod]

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