Woo-hoo, the clocks go back to GMT this weekend!

inogen said:
The sun sets earlier the further you go north in the winter and rises later. The days are shorter. In extremis, the North Pole is dark from sometime in October until sometime in March. The further you go north and the closer we get to the Winter Solstice, the bigger the variance between north and south.

Currently the sun sets in Scotland around 6 mins earlier than it does in Southern England.

However, the sun sets faster in the South. The fastest setting sun (shortest twilight) is at the equator. So although sunset is only 6 mins earlier in Scotland, it starts to go dark even earlier and the period through twilight and dusk is shorter.

It's also worse if you live in the east as the west of the UK gets more light reflected as the sun sets over the Atlantic.
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It also sets later in the south west compared to the east by about oh 20 minutes or so on the phone my mother says its still light there when its dark here at dusk

something daft already!! said:
Why would anyone mind an extra hour added to the weekend and possibly time spent in bed, doing bedly type things? I hate it in the spring when we lose the hour.
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Because many people have to start work an hour earlier as it gets dark an hour earlier
 
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And the 2nd pointless clock change of the year looms. Europe, as a whole, voted to bin this pointless back & forth in 2018 (while we were still in the EU). It's about time somebody got off their backsides and did something about it! I don't benefit from any extra sleep as I still wake up at the same time I would have, which means all that happens is I lose an hour of sleep in spring. Net gain 0. Net loss 1 hour.

/rant
:)
 
Infidelus said:
And the 2nd pointless clock change of the year looms. Europe, as a whole, voted to bin this pointless back & forth in 2018 (while we were still in the EU). It's about time somebody got off their backsides and did something about it! I don't benefit from any extra sleep as I still wake up at the same time I would have, which means all that happens is I lose an hour of sleep in spring. Net gain 0. Net loss 1 hour.

/rant
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Only Iceland doesn't change clocks back/forth.
The rest of Europe do, was the vote pointless?
 
Infidelus said:
And the 2nd pointless clock change of the year looms. Europe, as a whole, voted to bin this pointless back & forth in 2018 (while we were still in the EU). It's about time somebody got off their backsides and did something about it! I don't benefit from any extra sleep as I still wake up at the same time I would have, which means all that happens is I lose an hour of sleep in spring. Net gain 0. Net loss 1 hour.

/rant
:)
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So another thing that’s Brexit’s fault? :p
 
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