People don't want to be driving in the dark? I can imagine the number of car crashes soaring if the clocks go forward.
Poll: D Day the 3rd December
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People don't want to be driving in the dark? I can imagine the number of car crashes soaring if the clocks go forward.
I can't, in the same way I don't see hundreds of smouldering wrecks when I'm driving in the dark at the moment.
Well the available evidence shows that the incidence of car accidents more than quadruples in the dark.
http://pubsindex.trb.org/view.aspx?id=160684
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&so...sg=AFQjCNH5F3b1JR9mWQ-VNP43OIdf5SKNpA&cad=rja
http://pubsindex.trb.org/view.aspx?id=160684
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&so...sg=AFQjCNH5F3b1JR9mWQ-VNP43OIdf5SKNpA&cad=rja
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personally, im not bothered about this at all.
So in the winter when it gets dark by 4:30pm and people leave work around 5:30pm, the chance of accidents would be higher because they've been working all day.
I'm sorry but when you wake up and have breakfast and a shower, you are at your peak in terms of concentration, so I doubt accidents would increase.
I'm sorry but when you wake up and have breakfast and a shower, you are at your peak in terms of concentration, so I doubt accidents would increase.
Speaking as a British person, I think the changeover to Berlin Time is long overdue.
We all joke about the frustrations caused by "the wrong type of snow", but what about the wrong type of time? In this new era of tight belts and thin wallets, our government cannot afford to absorb the continued economic damage wrought by an outdated timekeeping system which fails European standards.
Look at any British-made timepiece and the first thing you notice is the absence of the all-important "EN 15518-1:2011" sticker. Now imagine a Britain under Berlin Time. That sticker would be there!
Hopefully the Tories will have the courage and determination to seize this initiative and see it through. If that happens, I welcome the benefits it will bring to our great nation.
We all joke about the frustrations caused by "the wrong type of snow", but what about the wrong type of time? In this new era of tight belts and thin wallets, our government cannot afford to absorb the continued economic damage wrought by an outdated timekeeping system which fails European standards.
Look at any British-made timepiece and the first thing you notice is the absence of the all-important "EN 15518-1:2011" sticker. Now imagine a Britain under Berlin Time. That sticker would be there!
Hopefully the Tories will have the courage and determination to seize this initiative and see it through. If that happens, I welcome the benefits it will bring to our great nation.
It would still be dark at 5:30 then with Berlin time, at least there wouldn't be loads of kids walking to school at that time though.
Well the real world evidence shows that it does. And many people do not eat breakfast or shower in the morning. I for one am not at my peak alertness in the morning that's for sure.
I don't get what people mean when they say this?
So you don't want the clocks to go forward in the summer to GMT+1? Or you want it to remain as it stands now GMT Oct-Mar and BST (GMT+1) in the summer.
At the moment you only have GMT for 6 months of the year
I don't care eitherway in Scotland I used to trudge to school in the dark and after sport come home in the dark most evenings I spent most evenings in the dark out playing eitherway it would have made no difference to me at all.
It isn't GMT for 6 months anyway.
People were measuring time thousands of years before Britain even existed. "Time in what we know it as now" was not "invented" at Greenwich, and there is nothing unique about GMT except its calibrated point (a local observatory). The modern universal standard is actually UTC.
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It's already too dark in the morning during winter, and I like the cosy dark evenings. The idea of double summer time is even worse. Daylight until what? 11pm. To hell with that, some of us have to sleep. 
Keep things as they are. The only people who want it are mad "let's be all the same" Euro types, nervous drivers and women who can't reprogram clocks.
The reasons given on that website annoy me even more.
Keep things as they are. The only people who want it are mad "let's be all the same" Euro types, nervous drivers and women who can't reprogram clocks.
The reasons given on that website annoy me even more.
So Google is your friend.
So we have two reports, one written 30 years and the other just under 20 years ago based on American statistics where we know they can't drive properly and their driving patterns nor road systems/lighting bear no relationship to ours.
In that last report they concluded that the night time fatal involvement rate for drivers of all ages was 4.6 times the daytime rate. I noticed that night time is defined as being 9 PM to 6 AM.
They also concluded that:
I really don’t see how these reports have any bearing on the UK.