Poll: Clocks go forward this weekend (27th) (stupid, stupid, dumb BST)

[robj20]

I chose GMT but our work let you pick your hours so I work 6:30 to 14:30 so have plenty of daylight time after work anyway.

 

[Freefaller]

I chose GMT but our work let you pick your hours so I work 6:30 to 14:30 so have plenty of daylight time after work anyway.

Now that's pretty cool. I'd probably choose similar hours.

 

[robj20]

Now that's pretty cool. I'd probably choose similar hours.

Yep also means I avoid any traffic both ways.

 

[tom_e]

I chose GMT but our work let you pick your hours so I work 6:30 to 14:30 so have plenty of daylight time after work anyway.

Same here, since they introduced flexi time that's my standard shift. Makes the days I need to be in the office with 3 hours a day commute a bit more tolerable.

 

[a1ex2001]

We should scrap it and permanently move to BST ( which almost always the proposal) the only reason for wanting to be on GMT forever is if you are JRM and so obsessed with British greatness that you can pretend anything old fashioned and British is best.

 

[robj20]

We should scrap it and permanently move to BST ( which almost always the proposal) the only reason for wanting to be on GMT forever is if you are JRM and so obsessed with British greatness that you can pretend anything old fashioned and British is best.

Or that you prefer your mornings rather than evenings as I do.

 

[D.P.]

horrific going back to dark mornings and walking the kids to daycare in the dark.

 

[Freefaller]

We should scrap it and permanently move to BST ( which almost always the proposal) the only reason for wanting to be on GMT forever is if you are JRM and so obsessed with British greatness that you can pretend anything old fashioned and British is best.

I'm barely 1/4 British, for me it's just because I prefer mornings. Even with GMT it's still light in the evenings in summer.

Problem with BST in winter time is that it would be dark until 9am at least if not later.

I guess for that reason we have to keep moving the clocks.

 

[Tephnos]

We should scrap it and permanently move to BST ( which almost always the proposal) the only reason for wanting to be on GMT forever is if you are JRM and so obsessed with British greatness that you can pretend anything old fashioned and British is best.

Or that every attempt to implement DST permanently in other countries has always failed.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

horrific going back to dark mornings and walking the kids to daycare in the dark.

Are you poor or something? Pile in your gas guzzling SUV and drive the hundred yards there and back like everyone else! Rishi has a nice little discount just for you!

 

[Deleted User 298457]

horrific going back to dark mornings and walking the kids to daycare in the dark.

How early are you dumping your kids?

 

[arknor]

Opposite how? It would still make the afternoons/evenings lighter rather than mornings, whether it was winter or summer

I'm genuinely thinking we go back to GMT to get an extra hour of daylight but in the morning?

why would we have GMT if the daylight hours weren;t pretty much optimal for us if we invented it.

 

[D.P.]

How early are you dumping your kids?

7am, sunrise was near 7:30 here.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

7am, sunrise was near 7:30 here.

Snap - how did that come about? My little one doesn't even wake up till gone 0730.

 

[rypt]

You think that's annoying. I worked on a system to handle trade financing contracts...it all revolves around very precise timing of paperwork attached to shipments moving around the world, down to the second.

Not only are all the agreements moving around the world through different time zones, a lot of it is based on 'working hours', so you have to take bank holidays in every country on the planet into account, the fact the shipments are moving across timezones that are themselves shifting due to daylight saving changes, at different dates in different countries....

Don't even get me started on leap seconds....it's giving me PTSD thinking back to it.

I feel your pain! I don't have to go down to leap seconds, but we have to cater in our systems (that I work on) for "local user time" (in one of 15 locations" vs "market standard" (which is sometimes in EST, and sometimes in NZST) vs "UTC"

Let's not forget that Australia start work while US are still in the office, but they are "next day" date in Australia!

and as predicted, someone at work forgot to update some of our system schedules for GMT -> BST, so we had things go to the wrong places this morning until I got it fixed lol

 

[m4rmite]

7am, sunrise was near 7:30 here.

Forgive me if you're not based in the uk but sunrise was at 6.52 today wasn't it?
It was certainly light at that time as i was driving to work.

 

[mid_gen]

Forgive me if you're not based in the uk but sunrise was at 6.52 today wasn't it?
It was certainly light at that time as i was driving to work.

The UK isn't a singularity....the sun rises in the east first, and west last!

 

[a1ex2001]

7am, sunrise was near 7:30 here.

Bu

I'm barely 1/4 British, for me it's just because I prefer mornings. Even with GMT it's still light in the evenings in summer.

Problem with BST in winter time is that it would be dark until 9am at least if not later.

I guess for that reason we have to keep moving the clocks.

BST in winter would be great the population might actually get to see some daylight instead of commuting both ways in the dark!

 

[a1ex2001]

Or that you prefer your mornings rather than evenings as I do.

For most of the UK the sun was still up before 7am this morning

 

[Kelt]

Bu

BST in winter would be great the population might actually get to see some daylight instead of commuting both ways in the dark!

This. When I was working (retired now), I absolutely hated getting up in the dark, and coming home in the dark in the winter months.

Utterly depressing.