Lighter Later Campaign

I think they should just stop the whole clocks forwards / backwards nonsense and leave them as they are.
 
a1ex2001 said:
This gets banded about every single year, it's boring now and simply isn't going to happen.
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From the article I heard they are sitting down with the PM today... but as you say that means very little and may end up to be nothing. However, that aside, this is new to me so I thought I'd share the discussion. :)
 
I've agreed with this for ages, good that there's a campaign.

"4 Create 60,000–80,000 new jobs in leisure and tourism, bringing an extra £2.5–3.5 billion into the economy each year [4]
6 Help make people healthier and tackle obesity by giving people more time to exercise and play sport outside in the evening [6]"

I don't see how that many new jobs are going to be created for #4. For #5, well, that's an equally bold claim. If it's e.g. cold and wet then people will prefer their PS3 anyway.
 
All the servers are in GMT and I have to write reports on their stability, confusing enough having to convert to GMT as it is. +1hr all your round would be ok I suppose.
 
ok... but surely the benefits get significantly offset by it being darker LATER in the mornings!!

Darkness until 9am? The benefits would not be as large as those stated due to the fact that this probably hasn't been factored into them. I agree in principle but I really can't see it working to be honest.
 
It's been tried before and didn't work then.

In the middle of winter there is finite daylight hours, it doesnt get light here until 7.30 and is completely dark at 16.30 - changing it by an hour does nothing.
 
kibblerok said:
It's been tried before and didn't work then.

In the middle of winter there is finite daylight hours, it doesnt get light here until 7.30 and is completely dark at 16.30 - changing it by an hour does nothing.
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The point is, more of us will see more of it. And it's in relation to when lights go on and off. Shifting forward would undeniably mean that less of the overall population will be using lights and stuff more.
 
can't remember the exact details but there was a similar experiment tried when I was a kid, it really didn't work and there were a lot of juvenile pedestrian accidents in the morning
 
Freefaller said:
That's what I thought... Hence why I was curious to hear why they feel it would be better... Maybe there are more people travelling in the evening than in the morning?
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It's possible but I can't think of any particular reason why it would be so for any significant number of people, generally you'd expect people to start work in the morning and finish in the evening.

I rather suspect that the benefits of changing the times are being overstated, it tends to be that way with a great number of campaigns. A lot of them are rather fanciful as well, they may have some impact but it seems unlikely that they'll achieve all they are claiming.
 
semi-pro waster said:
It's possible but I can't think of any particular reason why it would be so for any significant number of people, generally you'd expect people to start work in the morning and finish in the evening.
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I think it's the case more people in winter currently travel home in the dark. Once it's dark at 4.30pm (after the clocks change) then practicularly everybody is travelling home in the dark.

Even with it not getting light until 8.30 in the morning you will have quite I few people still travelling in daylight.
 
Personally, irrespective of how true some of the facts are, the thought of having more light in the evening is a huge sell for me.
 
Freefaller said:
Personally, irrespective of how true some of the facts are, the thought of having more light in the evening is a huge sell for me.
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Really? I thought big foots only come out in the dark ;)

Seems like an interesting idea tho, I think daylight savings is a tired and old tradition which doesn't serve any realy purpose to the majority, it would still be used by the farmers tho.

KaHn
 
Hehe - nah I'm very much a light person. I love having all the curtains open and get as much light as possible. I'm not a night person at all. Night is for sleeping :p
 
Kids would be going to school in the dark in the mornings, so pedestrian safety would be compromised and people would not be walking anywhere in the mornings.

I sort of agree with the proposal, and have thought of this in the past. It might make sense to put us in the same time zone as central Europe for economic reasons too.
 
Freefaller said:
Hehe - nah I'm very much a light person. I love having all the curtains open and get as much light as possible. I'm not a night person at all. Night is for sleeping :p
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See are you one of these people who believe in S.A.D.? I don't really think I have a preference to light or dark, I love being out really late at night just wish my job was more suited to it lol

KaHn
 
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