Yeah but it's twice a year for the entire country, over a large population that can mean big costs to the NHS. There's loads of sleep studies and how it affects people. It can affect cortisol, blood pressure, food cravings, etc - so when you do all those little things to 65 million people twice a year it's going to cause damage to some people, probably those who were already vulnerable in the first place. Imagine a shift worker who was already struggling with sleep now has to get up an extra hour early, it adds up.
Clock changes: EU backs ending daylight saving
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Yeah but it's twice a year for the entire country, over a large population that can mean big costs to the NHS. There's loads of sleep studies and how it affects people. It can affect cortisol, blood pressure, food cravings, etc - so when you do all those little things to 65 million people twice a year it's going to cause damage to some people, probably those who were already vulnerable in the first place. Imagine a shift worker who was already struggling with sleep now has to get up an extra hour early, it adds up.
Soldato
Aye about time to do away with the daftness of clock changing.
Soldato
I wasn't aware there was even a vote :/
Sounds about right, its the Eu after all and people in the UK dont seem to want to be involved with the EU.
We never get to hear about this kind of EU stuff, not a peep about it on any news channel. But most people in the UK don't really consider themselves part of the European community, never have.
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Soldato
I’m going to miss all the sensible EU stuff like this.
Soldato
This is an important decision, we need to put it to a referendum after allowing the different political sides to spout a load of nonsense for months before the will of the people will vote a decision by 52-48%.
Soldato
It's been debated many times in the UK, usually stopped by the Scots. The EU don't control timezones believe it or not.
One recent example:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/po...ur-if-Scotland-doesnt-object-to-the-dark.html
We don't need the EU to hold our hands for everything despite what you may hear on your own particular news outlets.
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Soldato
Speak for yourself
Soldato
I for one would not miss daylight savings at all.
I’ve always known, that as someone living in London, U.K., that I was automatically a European, as U.K. is part of the Continent of Europe.
Part of the European Community? Well I guess so, by extension.
I heard about the move to abandon Daylight Saving on the TV news today, and read it in the news online.
Had I been offered a vote on the subject, I’d have voted to abandon the bi-annual hour change.
Soldato
Compromise: GMT + 30mins.
Sack that, why is everyone thinking little? Go big or go home!
I’d vote for GMT-10. Since it’s the same as Hawaii it means we’d get similar weather at the same time!
That’s how it works right?? I’d bet it would happen if you put it on the side of a bus for all the brexiteirs to see
Quote"Until the Industrial Revolution, people generally worked when it was light and slept when it was dark. Great Britain was one of the first nations to introduce standardised time across places in roughly the same longitude, as the rise of rail travel necessitated regimented timekeeping. When ‘London time’ (GMT) was introduced by the Great Western Railway in 1840, it was the first recorded occasion when a single standard time was applied across a wide area."
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Clocks were left forward in the autumn of 1940 as an energy-saving measure, but were advanced again in spring 1941 so that for subsequent years until 1945 the country was two hours ahead of GMT, operating on what became known as British Double Summer Time (BDST). A post-war energy crisis meant BDST briefly returned in 1947.
From spring 1968, Britain experimented with staying in daylight saving (GMT + 1) the whole year round, mainly for commercial reasons. This proved unpopular, particularly in the north where mornings were particularly dark, so GMT returned in autumn 1971 and our current arrangement has been in place ever since."
Its complex and am in a bad mood as someone has just rang my door bell at 4 am and woke me up.
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Clocks were left forward in the autumn of 1940 as an energy-saving measure, but were advanced again in spring 1941 so that for subsequent years until 1945 the country was two hours ahead of GMT, operating on what became known as British Double Summer Time (BDST). A post-war energy crisis meant BDST briefly returned in 1947.
From spring 1968, Britain experimented with staying in daylight saving (GMT + 1) the whole year round, mainly for commercial reasons. This proved unpopular, particularly in the north where mornings were particularly dark, so GMT returned in autumn 1971 and our current arrangement has been in place ever since."
Its complex and am in a bad mood as someone has just rang my door bell at 4 am and woke me up.
Commissario
What did they want, hope it was nothing serious.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45366390
If we brexit, we likely won't get this nice thing if it goes through
Tech
Having not known a time where we didn't change clocks for summer/winter I've always thought it a silly convention changing the time by an hour just because of a season and have always preferred the idea of staying on a constant time throughout the year so this is appealing.
Thank God for brexit!