Daylight Saving Time

Bickaxe · 27 Mar 2019 at 17:09

Orionaut said:
We could even go back to calling it "Railway Time"

No more Spring sunshine for you!

robfosters · 27 Mar 2019 at 17:13

This thread is giving Feek an aneurysm

Jean-F · 27 Mar 2019 at 23:33

Just saw on a U.S forum, that a whole bunch of States are thinking of getting rid of the time switch too.

Yas786 · 27 Mar 2019 at 23:37

Good and so everyone else should. This stupid one hr forward and one hr back nonsense is just that, absolute nonsense.

I’d prefer to have longer days than what we currently have.

dowie · 27 Mar 2019 at 23:44

Orionaut said:
The whole idea (Especially during WW2 when energy consumption was critical) was to match daylight hours with "Most" of the general populations daily lives in order to reduce the need for heating and lighting homes and workplaces during the hours of darkness.

This is just as good an idea today as it was 70 years ago.

It is less relevant today as there is often less of a requirement to start work at some specified X o'clock and a bit more flexibility. Ergo for a lot of people it doesn't matter whether you pick BST or GMT... if you want to get up when it is light then just do that if you don't then don't.

This is especially true in the case of self employed farmers, in fact it always has been the case for them - no one is forcing them to get up any earlier or later, yet they've tended to oppose DST regardless.

Eurofighter · 27 Mar 2019 at 23:49

I would prefer permanent BST. But there is something good about GMT, like its the real time of the world.

Brizzles · 28 Mar 2019 at 00:22

We invented time when an an apple fell on Winston Churchills head.

Improvise Adapt Overcome.

Don't like it ? , stay in garlic land.

Blackjack Davy · 28 Mar 2019 at 00:29

Yas786 said:
I’d prefer to have longer days than what we currently have.

Aye, lets petition for 25 or 26 hour days. This 24hr nonsense isn't cutting it theres nowhere near enough hours in the day!

Kelt · 28 Mar 2019 at 02:18

Orionaut said:
BST(+1) in the winter, "Double Summer Time" (+2) in the Summer (Like they did in WW2)

413x said:
This would be great

Personally the lighter the evening the better

Id have +2 all year round if I had the choice

This.

So much this.

stuman · 28 Mar 2019 at 04:49

I vote for 10 hour days and 10 day weeks. For get this crazy 24/7 rubbish. Decimal all the way

Jean-F · 28 Mar 2019 at 08:37

Yas786 said:
Good and so everyone else should. This stupid one hr forward and one hr back nonsense is just that, absolute nonsense.

I’d prefer to have longer days than what we currently have.

While I’m sure that you meant that you’d prefer the days to be light for longer Yas, I think that you
led with your chin there, especially knowing the lightning reactions of the site’s resident wags.

Trifid · 28 Mar 2019 at 08:53

Central European Summer Time all year round please. I want some light in the evenings.

Yas786 · 28 Mar 2019 at 09:59

Blackjack Davy said:
Aye, lets petition for 25 or 26 hour days. This 24hr nonsense isn't cutting it theres nowhere near enough hours in the day!

Yes why not, 30 hr days at the very minimum

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Jean-F said:
While I’m sure that you meant that you’d prefer the days to be light for longer Yas, I think that you
led with your chin there, especially knowing the lightning reactions of the site’s resident wags.

You are indeed correct, I’d rather have light for longer.

robj20 · 28 Mar 2019 at 10:03

Brizzles said:
We invented time when an an apple fell on Winston Churchills head.

Improvise Adapt Overcome.

Don't like it ? , stay in garlic land.

Are you sure about that? Lol

robfosters · 28 Mar 2019 at 10:05

Yas786 said:
You are indeed correct, I’d rather have light for longer.

This. In Genesis, God actually said “Let there be light!”

He didn’t say “Let there be dark!” Did he?

Orionaut · 28 Mar 2019 at 10:21

dowie said:
It is less relevant today as there is often less of a requirement to start work at some specified X o'clock and a bit more flexibility. Ergo for a lot of people it doesn't matter whether you pick BST or GMT... if you want to get up when it is light then just do that if you don't then don't.

This is especially true in the case of self employed farmers, in fact it always has been the case for them - no one is forcing them to get up any earlier or later, yet they've tended to oppose DST regardless.

That is why I said "Most" of the population.

As for farmers, this is the one industry that I would have thought was the least tied to the clock of all.

You plow the fields when they need plowing and milk the cows when they need milking.

Not because of where the big hand and the little hand happen to be pointing.

CircleFaust · 28 Mar 2019 at 15:46

hope it never changes, nothing like this time of year getting that extra hr, long days where you can get plenty done

Mark1989 · 29 Mar 2019 at 08:57

Does it really matter? I never notice or feel any different when it changes, I don't even change the time all my devices just update straight away too

malachi · 29 Mar 2019 at 09:53

Mark1989 said:
Does it really matter? I never notice or feel any different when it changes, I don't even change the time all my devices just update straight away too

Maybe for us but for the majority its an inconvenience.

Diddums · 29 Mar 2019 at 10:00

Moar light in evening pl0x. Moarning is for n00bz newayz.