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Re: BST
« Reply #50 on: March 25, 2018, 01:45:00 PM »
Quote from: SusanDoris on March 25, 2018, 01:39:47 PM
It can probably be classified as psychological! We just sort of feel better when the evenings are lighter, even though we know that the daylight hours are what they are, regardless of clocks/!
Postmen and farmers and other early-risers probably feel better when winter mornings are lighter. To clarify, I'm in favour of sticking with the current system.
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Re: BST
« Reply #51 on: March 25, 2018, 01:46:26 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on March 25, 2018, 01:44:13 PM
But wouldn't that be an argument to stay on BST all year round?
Sounds like it - but who wants winter mornings not getting light until 9 am or later?
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Re: BST
« Reply #52 on: March 25, 2018, 01:50:46 PM »
Quote from: Steve H on March 25, 2018, 01:46:26 PM
Sounds like it - but who wants winter mornings not getting light until 9 am or later?
Nobody. But then people also don't like it getting dark at 4pm. On the whole, I'd choose lighter evenings.
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Re: BST
« Reply #53 on: March 25, 2018, 01:52:40 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on March 25, 2018, 01:50:46 PM
Nobody. But then people also don't like it getting dark at 4pm. On the whole, I'd choose lighter evenings.
You are presumably not a postman! I was for many years. (I still am a postal worker, but on the late shift in the Mail Centre nowadays.)
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Re: BST
« Reply #54 on: March 25, 2018, 02:02:06 PM »
Quote from: Steve H on March 25, 2018, 01:46:26 PM
Sounds like it - but who wants winter mornings not getting light until 9 am or later?

When going to work one just accepts it - I go out around 7am a couple of days a week and don't mind it being dark then - but lovely at weekends or on days off. Really cosy, seems like middle of the night. Tho' don't think it is ever still dark at 9a.m. - (unless I was asleep and missed it :)).
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Re: BST
« Reply #55 on: March 25, 2018, 03:51:14 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on March 25, 2018, 01:44:13 PM
But wouldn't that be an argument to stay on BST all year round?
Not really; it is having to think about the date and therefore being conscious of the  change that gives a bit of an uplift, I think.
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Re: BST
« Reply #56 on: March 25, 2018, 04:39:14 PM »
Quote from: SusanDoris on March 25, 2018, 03:51:14 PM
Not really; it is having to think about the date and therefore being conscious of the  change that gives a bit of an uplift, I think.

I would like double daylight saving, I'm not a morning person anyway and I would really like to have and enjoy the late evenings. 

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Re: BST
« Reply #57 on: March 25, 2018, 04:47:29 PM »
I suspect views on this matter may well depend on how far north you live!
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Re: BST
« Reply #58 on: March 25, 2018, 08:53:48 PM »
Quote from: Gordon on March 25, 2018, 04:47:29 PM
I suspect views on this matter may well depend on how far north you live!

True. Up here in Finland it's s complete waste of time as the days are so long in the summer anyway. I fail to see it as anything other than pain in the arse.
« Last Edit: March 26, 2018, 07:05:44 AM by ad_orientem »
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Re: BST
« Reply #59 on: March 26, 2018, 07:17:31 AM »
Changing the clocks is just a conplete waste of time and money. Whoever came up with the idea should have been hung, drawn and quartered. Days are longer in the summer and shorter in the winter. That's just nature. Leave the clocks alone.
« Last Edit: March 26, 2018, 08:44:06 AM by ad_orientem »
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Re: BST
« Reply #60 on: March 26, 2018, 07:03:09 PM »
Dear Steve,

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You are presumably not a postman! I was for many years. (I still am a postal worker, but on the late shift in the Mail Centre nowadays.)

Prove it  :P

Question 1. What is a Haddie ( could be spelt  Haddy ). ::)

Question 2. Who is the Holley man. ::)

Question 3. What is the dead letter branch. ::)

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Re: BST
« Reply #61 on: March 26, 2018, 10:16:34 PM »
Quote from: Gonnagle on March 26, 2018, 07:03:09 PM
Dear Steve,

Prove it  :P

Question 1. What is a Haddie ( could be spelt  Haddy ). ::)

Question 2. Who is the Holley man. ::)

Question 3. What is the dead letter branch. ::)

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Dead letters are dealt with in Belfast. I have no idea about the first two.
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Re: BST
« Reply #62 on: March 27, 2018, 11:54:56 AM »
Dear Steve,

Belfast?? I think I got out of the post office just at the right time, I loved the dead letter branch, wonderful detective work trying to figure out where certain mail had come from or going too.

Haddy is or was lunchtime, Holley man was the overtime man, always a queue for that guy :P

Which reminds me of another word "carder" five 16 hour shifts, double Saturday and double Sunday, happy days :)

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Re: BST
« Reply #63 on: March 27, 2018, 01:47:36 PM »
Quote from: Gonnagle on March 27, 2018, 11:54:56 AM
Dear Steve,

Belfast?? I think I got out of the post office just at the right time, I loved the dead letter branch, wonderful detective work trying to figure out where certain mail had come from or going too.

Haddy is or was lunchtime, Holley man was the overtime man, always a queue for that guy :P

Which reminds me of another word "carder" five 16 hour shifts, double Saturday and double Sunday, happy days :)

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Blimy - when was this?
I think many mail centres have their own slang. In Hemel Hempstead, "shabbing" used to be the rotten trick of leaving loads of work for the person following you on a walk the next week, back in the days of four-week rotations.
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