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Point of information: it is not the EU that has proposed this but the EU Commission. It still has to be approved by the EU states and the EU parliament. I wouldn't normally argue the point but with Brexit, we need to be accurate.Having said that, I would be in favour of having summer time all year round. I don't like having to bugger around with clocks twice a year and I have seen studies that say lighter afternoons would reduce road deaths.
Having said that, I would be in favour of having summer time all year round. I don't like having to bugger around with clocks twice a year and I have seen studies that say lighter afternoons would reduce road deaths.
There is also no reliable evidence that the clock changes reduce traffic accidents, the Commission says.
In 1999 four would-be terrorists loaded two bombs into two cars. The bombs were set to go off at 6.30pm.Their intention was to load the bombs onto the luggage racks of two intercity buses before hopping off and driving away.They armed the bombs in a Palestinian area. Their targets were in Israel.Israel had turned the clocks back a day before but the bombers hadn't noticed the difference. The bombs blew up at 5.30pm local time while still in their cars, killing the bombers.
That was tried in the mid 60s but scrapped after a couple of years, I think it was, which I have always thought was a pity.
Alex Salmond called the campaign an attempt to “plunge Scotland into morning darkness”. The complaints are founded; in the winter, the sun wouldn’t rise until 10am in parts of Scotland. The country’s 1,000 or so dairy farmers, who wake up before 5am, would have to work for hours in the dark. Other farmers and construction workers, who need sunlight to perform their jobs, would end up working later into the evening.
1968 to 1971. It was a pity for the Scots in that period:Quote... in the winter, the sun wouldn’t rise until 10am in parts of Scotland. The country’s 1,000 or so dairy farmers, who wake up before 5am, would have to work for hours in the dark. Other farmers and construction workers, who need sunlight to perform their jobs, would end up working later into the evening.
... in the winter, the sun wouldn’t rise until 10am in parts of Scotland. The country’s 1,000 or so dairy farmers, who wake up before 5am, would have to work for hours in the dark. Other farmers and construction workers, who need sunlight to perform their jobs, would end up working later into the evening.
So 70,000,000 people have to bow to the whim of 1,000 Scottish farmers
... that's assuming that 70,000,000 want to stop changing the clocks twice a year and stick to BST all year round.
I don't - I don't have a problem with a job of moments twice a year. It's no big deal. A great many clocks and other devices these days do it automatically in any case.
1968 to 1971. It was a pity for the Scots in that period:
I like having a bit of daylight when I leave the office in the evening. At present, during winter, when I leave home in the morning it's dark and when I leave the office in the evening it's dark. A bit more daylight in the late afternoon would be great.
Try weorking on the land, producing food or milk.You'll sing a different song, especially in Scotland.
What frustrates me is the point in the year when we shift.In the Autumn this is later October, so about 5 weeks the winter side of the equinox. That's the equivalent of mid February. Yet come spring we have to wait until late March, actually on the Summer side of the equinox.I'd be happy with that change, so keep GMT in the winter and BST in the summer, but make the changes symmetrical either side of the winter solstice - so back in late October and forward in mid Feb.If we can cope with the sunrise and sunset time in mid Oct on BST we can do so in late Feb, as they are the same.
It's always possible for individual employers, if a majority of employees want it, to alter their hours of work; there's no need for a national abolition of daylight saving. Anyway, it's swings and roundabouts: what you gain at one end of the day, you lose at the other end.
After Brexit in the sunlit uplands it will always be a beautiful early May morning with the thwack of the cricket bat on the cheeks, and the trilling of lovely maidens as they milk the Jersey, and the sound of church he is as we burn the ceremonial nigger.
I am surprised at you, that is a highly unpleasant racist comment to which I take great exception!
Westminster wanted us in their 'precious union'. It's far pas time they staryed listening to us...if the idiots want to keep us there. Have you ever tried finding yowes in the mirk?
