| Daylight savings time on 00:51 - Oct 29 with 2618 views | J2BLUE |
Scrap it. If most of Europe are scrapping it then we probably should too for practical reasons. |  |
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| Daylight savings time on 01:24 - Oct 29 with 2612 views | Wacko |
Won't it actually mean that, for half a year, the UK would have the same time as most of mainland Europe rather than being always 1 hour behind? |  |
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| Daylight savings time on 06:00 - Oct 29 with 2572 views | Ryorry |
| Daylight savings time on 00:51 - Oct 29 by J2BLUE |
Scrap it. If most of Europe are scrapping it then we probably should too for practical reasons. |
You've never lived in the N of Scotland then? If current DS were scrapped, it'd be dark there till 11.30am.
I did get in the most reading I've ever done in my life during the 3 winters I lived on Orkney tho - pre-internet days, I used to stay in bed reading till it got light at 10.30am! |  |
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| Daylight savings time on 06:50 - Oct 29 with 2518 views | BlueBadger |
| Daylight savings time on 01:24 - Oct 29 by Wacko |
Won't it actually mean that, for half a year, the UK would have the same time as most of mainland Europe rather than being always 1 hour behind? |
Post 2020* a mere hour is but a trifle as we'll be 45 years behind in terms of environmental and employment protections, trade, rich people actually paying their taxes, etc
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| Daylight savings time on 06:53 - Oct 29 with 2523 views | bluelagos |
The bit I dont get is when they talk about farmers doing xyz. Surely they can still do xyz, it will just be a different time to now (if we adopt BST) |  |
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| Daylight savings time on 08:05 - Oct 29 with 2452 views | factual_blue |
| Daylight savings time on 06:00 - Oct 29 by Ryorry |
You've never lived in the N of Scotland then? If current DS were scrapped, it'd be dark there till 11.30am.
I did get in the most reading I've ever done in my life during the 3 winters I lived on Orkney tho - pre-internet days, I used to stay in bed reading till it got light at 10.30am! |
The population of the Orkneys is about 0.0003% of the UK. |  |
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| Daylight savings time on 09:06 - Oct 29 with 2391 views | GeoffSentence |
| Daylight savings time on 06:53 - Oct 29 by bluelagos |
The bit I dont get is when they talk about farmers doing xyz. Surely they can still do xyz, it will just be a different time to now (if we adopt BST) |
At certain times of the year the farmers round my way work well into dark anyone, just with the benefit of massive lights.
My window cleaner moans about the clocks going back every year, he needs daylight to work in but it is not good have an extra hour daylight in the mornings as no-one wants a window cleaner poking around when they are getting out of bed or having breakfast.
For reference there are more window cleaners in the UK than residents of the Orkneys. |  |
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| Daylight savings time on 09:30 - Oct 29 with 2358 views | itfcjoe |
It's utterly pointless now - the farmers just need to adjust their working pattern and maybe start an hour later, not difficult.
It is like this in Australia too, where Queensland and New South Wales spend half a year on different time zones - we stayed at a friends in Queensland and they operated a coffee shop just over border in NSW and that was confusing as anything for us staying there a few days - guess you get used to it! |  |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:01 - Oct 29 with 2317 views | davblue |
| Daylight savings time on 09:30 - Oct 29 by itfcjoe |
It's utterly pointless now - the farmers just need to adjust their working pattern and maybe start an hour later, not difficult.
It is like this in Australia too, where Queensland and New South Wales spend half a year on different time zones - we stayed at a friends in Queensland and they operated a coffee shop just over border in NSW and that was confusing as anything for us staying there a few days - guess you get used to it! |
I wonder what the health benefits would be with people getting more sunlight. |  | | |
| Daylight savings time on 10:06 - Oct 29 with 2305 views | solemio |
| Daylight savings time on 10:01 - Oct 29 by davblue |
I wonder what the health benefits would be with people getting more sunlight. |
Extra skin cancer cases? | | | |
| Daylight savings time on 10:09 - Oct 29 with 2293 views | Ryorry |
| Daylight savings time on 08:05 - Oct 29 by factual_blue |
The population of the Orkneys is about 0.0003% of the UK. |
And?
Fair Isle, Shetland are even darker; Highlands only a few minutes' difference, not to mention Inverness, Aberdeen etc etc. | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:11 - Oct 29 with 2287 views | itfcjoe |
| Daylight savings time on 10:09 - Oct 29 by Ryorry |
And?
Fair Isle, Shetland are even darker; Highlands only a few minutes' difference, not to mention Inverness, Aberdeen etc etc. |
Those places have limited sunlight due to geography, not down to DST | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:15 - Oct 29 with 2279 views | Sikamikanico |
| Daylight savings time on 00:51 - Oct 29 by J2BLUE |
Scrap it. If most of Europe are scrapping it then we probably should too for practical reasons. |
Just another thing for Brexiteers to get angry about. They will covet DST if the EU took it away.
In all honesty though its a redundancy nowadays | | | |
| Daylight savings time on 10:15 - Oct 29 with 2278 views | Ryorry |
| Daylight savings time on 10:11 - Oct 29 by itfcjoe |
Those places have limited sunlight due to geography, not down to DST |
We are talking about DST and whether to change it here - the *point* is that if it were changed, the N. of Scotland wouldn't get light till 11.30am. | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:26 - Oct 29 with 2267 views | itfcjoe |
| Daylight savings time on 10:15 - Oct 29 by Ryorry |
We are talking about DST and whether to change it here - the *point* is that if it were changed, the N. of Scotland wouldn't get light till 11.30am. |
On the shortest day of the year in Aberdeen, which is basically the most northernly city in the UK with Inverness they have daylight from 8:28 to 15:28, does it make a huge amount of difference if that is 9:28 to 4:28?
Every worker doing normal hours, or schoolchild is still going to need to make 1 journey in the dark as there is only 7 hours of sunlight whichever way you slice it | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:28 - Oct 29 with 2261 views | Ryorry |
| Daylight savings time on 10:26 - Oct 29 by itfcjoe |
On the shortest day of the year in Aberdeen, which is basically the most northernly city in the UK with Inverness they have daylight from 8:28 to 15:28, does it make a huge amount of difference if that is 9:28 to 4:28?
Every worker doing normal hours, or schoolchild is still going to need to make 1 journey in the dark as there is only 7 hours of sunlight whichever way you slice it |
Yes it does make a huge difference.
Have you ever lived there? | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:28 - Oct 29 with 2260 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Daylight savings time on 10:15 - Oct 29 by Ryorry |
We are talking about DST and whether to change it here - the *point* is that if it were changed, the N. of Scotland wouldn't get light till 11.30am. |
Yeah and the point others are making is why should the whole UK be governed by a few people in the far reaches of Scotland?
As others have said, it's utterly pointless now. And frankly, a bit daft. |  |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:29 - Oct 29 with 2254 views | Ryorry |
| Daylight savings time on 10:28 - Oct 29 by BrixtonBlue |
Yeah and the point others are making is why should the whole UK be governed by a few people in the far reaches of Scotland?
As others have said, it's utterly pointless now. And frankly, a bit daft. |
Says someone living in London  | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:31 - Oct 29 with 2249 views | itfcjoe |
| Daylight savings time on 10:28 - Oct 29 by Ryorry |
Yes it does make a huge difference.
Have you ever lived there? |
No but I live somewhere where some of the daylight is wasted because I am asleep for it working normal hours - whereas none is wasted there working normal hours - there just isn't as much of it! | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:31 - Oct 29 with 2249 views | footers |
For something so trivial that doesn't really affect 99% of people, I'm shocked, shocked I tells ya to see so many Very Strong Opinions on the subject.
I didn't even realise it'd happened until someone told me. Still, always nice to have summat to get het up about I suppose! |  |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:32 - Oct 29 with 2242 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Daylight savings time on 10:28 - Oct 29 by Ryorry |
Yes it does make a huge difference.
Have you ever lived there? |
You don't seem to have answered his point. | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:33 - Oct 29 with 2233 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Daylight savings time on 10:29 - Oct 29 by Ryorry |
Says someone living in London |
What's that got to do with it? If I lived in the north of Scotland I still wouldn't expect to dictate to the rest of the UK about anything. | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:35 - Oct 29 with 2224 views | tabletopjoe |
Fact: changing the clock to the wrong time doesn’t save any more daylight, you still have the same amount |  |
| 'Let the ignorant argue with themselves' -- CL |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:39 - Oct 29 with 2198 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Daylight savings time on 10:33 - Oct 29 by BrixtonBlue |
What's that got to do with it? If I lived in the north of Scotland I still wouldn't expect to dictate to the rest of the UK about anything. |
Are you alright Ryorry? | |
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| Daylight savings time on 10:41 - Oct 29 with 2187 views | NotSure |
| Daylight savings time on 10:33 - Oct 29 by BrixtonBlue |
What's that got to do with it? If I lived in the north of Scotland I still wouldn't expect to dictate to the rest of the UK about anything. |
Have you ever heard of the SNP? |  | | |
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