England to move to Continental time

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A private members bill this weeks offers a real chance for longer summer evenings in England and would save over 100 lives a year
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But then GMT would effectively become Paris time/forums/images/icons/mad.gif. Nope, sorry, we simply can't allow this - and in the run-up to the 200th anniversary year of Trafalgar to boot! Fortunately it's just a private members bill so it's got little chance of becomming law.

Tony C.

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Yes please. Much nicer having longer evenings.

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Rowlocks

I've never had much of a memory for things political, but I seem to remember many proposals to bugger about with GMT/BST failing at the feet of Scottish farming communities, so I wouldn't be very confident that this PMB will make it to the start line, let alone the finish.

>What is to stop the clocks being changed and then the Scottish schools starting at 10 am?<

Scottish parents, who drop their sprogs off on their way to work, at 0830-0900.

Personally, I've never understood how preventing bairns getting squashed on the way to school in the morning doesn't result in them being squashed on the way home from school in the afternoons. Of course, most of them probably get to'd and fro'd in 4x4s anyway, so it's irrelevant coz they've got headlights.

My solution - stick to GMT all year round and have a symmetric number of hours before and after noon

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Almost no chance of this happening. Do you know how many private member bills actually get approved. In last 5 years:
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Re: Rowlocks

<<Personally, I've never understood how preventing bairns getting squashed on the way to school in the morning doesn't result in them being squashed on the way home from school in the afternoons>>

I've always wondered about this myself, but apparently it's a statistical fact that more people get killed by cars on dark mornings than dark evenings - they said so on the "Today" programme this morning, so it must be true. Thinking about it for a moment, I guess that in the morning, people are more bleary-eyed/half awake/distracted by what they're going to do at work than they are in the evening (when they're just worried about getting home to face the wrath of SWMBO for being late/disorganised/a total failure as a husband).

Unless I am going completely barking, I seem to remember that there was a 5 year trial period, in the early Seventies, when we didn't put the clocks back each year. Nothing came of it, so I guess this experiment fell victim to incomprehensible Pictish whingeing of the kind so often seen on these boards, or to the immutable law which says that everything to come out of the Seventies was rubbish, particularly if it had a long keel /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif.

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Re: Good job...

B*gger; I was afraid you were going to say something like that!

OK, you win, but 1980 is verging on the '70's. I claim a moral victory (which is what I always say when someone gets the better of me..............) /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif


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Re: Whats wrong with GMT ???

something to do with saving power in the old days i believe. The rest of the world calls it daylight saving time, as if daylight were kind of used up if one looked at it too much or something.

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How long would it before some rail operating company came up with the excuse that it was too dark for the driver to get to his train and so couldnt see the leaves on the line or the wrong type of snow? Iv'e spent 55 minutes standing on Worcester Foregate St. station this afternoon because a driver failed to be available and yet this was in broad daylight during BST. There was no excuse this afternoon, but there'd be plenty if we were on either the new fangled -1 or what happens in the Summer-are we to go on FEST?

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Re: Whats wrong with GMT ???

Considering there are the same hours of daylight, I have never seen the need for daylight saving / BST anyway.
The farming community will still work when they have to .



<hr width=100% size=1>Mike
Now back home with my mistress and SWMBO of course !!!
 
Re: Whats wrong with GMT ???

It will always be GMT. Never mind what the rest of these johonny foreigners want to call it.



<hr width=100% size=1>Mike
Now back home with my mistress and SWMBO of course !!!
 
Re: Whats wrong with GMT ???

"Why do we need BST anyway??"

The theory .. is that extending daylight is more useful at the end of the day, than at the beginning.

14 hours daylight could be 5am to 7pm, but with BST that becomes 6am to 8pm which is more use to most people.

Tony S


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Re: Whats wrong with GMT ???

14 hours is 14 hours. But there again I work in an indusrty which is 24 / 7 so it becomes 24 hours is 24 hours.
I still do not follow the logic that with BST the time is more useful. It does not increase it in anyway!


<hr width=100% size=1>Mike
Now back home with my mistress and SWMBO of course !!!
 
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