Daylight Saving Time

Jean-F · 27 Mar 2019 at 11:51

BBC news had an item yesterday, saying that the European Parliament has backed a proposal to stop the obligatory one hour time change twice per year.
From 2021 it’s proposed that all States choose either permanent Summer time, or permanent Winter time.
No doubt this is just a proposal, it will have to be debated and agreed, or not, as the case may be.
Deep joy I thought, I could stand permanent Summer time, but wait, aren’t we about to quit the club?
I can envisage still suffering the bi-annual clock changes here forever, as the soi-disant bunch who think that they know best, lead us whooping and cheering to the country that they’ll have got back, with no sinister “foreign” voices in our supermarkets any more.

randomshenans · 27 Mar 2019 at 12:09

Yea, and Switzerland aren't apparently doing it, which is going to make my commute really weird

Scort · 27 Mar 2019 at 12:16

Ha! I wouldn't call having to change the odd clock +/- an hour "suffering" - if it's that bad for you, just leave them and do some maths

rhysduck · 27 Mar 2019 at 12:27

BST all year round. Where's the petition?

Scam · 27 Mar 2019 at 12:46

I have an early flight this Sunday and just realised the clocks are changing at 01:00am

bazzabear · 27 Mar 2019 at 13:06

Scam said:
I have an early flight this Sunday and just realised the clocks are changing at 01:00am

No way. The pilot will just have to circle for an hour until the time is sorted out. Otherwise you might meet yourself in the foyer.

bazzabear · 27 Mar 2019 at 13:07

Oh wait. I've just realised that as well as the deliberate stupidity of that post, I've also been equally stupid by mistake.

Oh well. I'll let it ride.

wolfie138 · 27 Mar 2019 at 13:12

bazzabear said:
Oh wait. I've just realised that as well as the deliberate stupidity of that post, I've also been equally stupid by mistake.

Oh well. I'll let it ride.

ban for insulting yourself.

Roar87 · 27 Mar 2019 at 13:16

Our government can just make the change if they want to, we don't need to be a part of the EU for this

Diddums · 27 Mar 2019 at 13:17

bazzabear said:
No way. The pilot will just have to circle for an hour until the time is sorted out. Otherwise you might meet yourself in the foyer.

Orionaut · 27 Mar 2019 at 13:30

rhysduck said:
BST all year round. Where's the petition?

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

malachi · 27 Mar 2019 at 13:32

Roar87 said:
Our government can just make the change if they want to, we don't need to be a part of the EU for this

Yep, just like Iceland.

413x · 27 Mar 2019 at 13:43

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

This would be great

Personally the lighter the evening the better

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

StriderX · 27 Mar 2019 at 13:46

Just rename +1 to gmt, problem solved.

We own Greenwich and the zeroth latitude, by god we can do what we please.

Orionaut · 27 Mar 2019 at 14:00

StriderX said:
Just rename +1 to gmt, problem solved.

We own Greenwich and the zeroth latitude, by god we can do what we please.

Quite!

We could even go back to calling it "Railway Time"

Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George!

Feek · 27 Mar 2019 at 14:39

/me backs away

dowie · 27 Mar 2019 at 15:31

Should just have one time setting, GMT seems logical given where the timeline is. If businesses or schools want to adjust opening times then that is up to them, ditto to farmers etc...

robj20 · 27 Mar 2019 at 16:06

Winter time all year round would be my choice. Brighter mornings are so much nicer.

dowie · 27 Mar 2019 at 16:28

Frankly most employers ought to offer flexitime so it shouldn’t matter whether GMT or BST is picked in that case - getting up earlier or later is your own choice. Granted some jobs do require coverage at certain times so can’t be so flexible.

(Technically it doesn’t matter if we carry on changing but it does simplify things if we just pick one)

Orionaut · 27 Mar 2019 at 17:02

robj20 said:
Winter time all year round would be my choice. Brighter mornings are so much nicer.

But brighter evenings are more economical.

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.