GMT+2 - good for boating?

[ian38_39]

Most aren't made for the UK market alone so they have options for BST plus 1/2/3/4 hours etc.

 

[AdeOlly]

Yes, but isn't the point of the auto daylight savings time adjustment feature that you don't have to do that?

The auto daylight savings feature will still work; it's a separate config item to the GMT offset. As with most marine electronics, the same unit is sold all over the world, and can cope with all time zones; we're just moving to CET.

 

[mateyboy]

I'm all for it , should have been done years ago.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Only people from the boating world I can see it upsetting are a few with sails.
They are the only ones who seem to relish the 5 am start to catch the tide for the 8 hour sail to the next marina 25 miles away.

That would make it a 4am departure if we moved to GTM + 2 so they would be even happier! To be honest though getting up at that time in the morning for a short coastal passage indicates something went badly wrong at the passage planning stage

 

[White Horse]

Bank Loans

Only people from the boating world I can see it upsetting are a few with sails.
They are the only ones who seem to relish the 5 am start to catch the tide for the 8 hour sail to the next marina 25 miles away.

Well at least we don't need a Bank Loan to cover the 25 Miles

It may take us 5 hours to get there but whats the rush anyway.

 

[mjf]

Forgive me but I can't understand your thought process here. There won't be less or more daylight therefore it can't be darker in the mornings and in the evenings at any one point throughout the year.


EugeneR . . .
"The same applies to any other devices that update based on the current definition of BST e.g. central heating control panel, home automation system, cofee machine, TV, DVD, Wii, etc."

Coffee Machine?! With a clock on?! Boy am I behind the times.

Yes I confess to misunderstanding the logic in these two posts.

The daylight or sunrise to sunset time is the same just time shifted to suit more poeples lifestyles. In winter I get up in the dark and leave the office in the dark, with a change I would go home in part light

Nav instruments all can accomodate time shifts +/- of z (GMT) and as other say all domestic stuff either shifts automatically or has method of adjustment to reflect local time at 'home'.

 

[Sultans_Kapitein]

I still cannot see any point in this excerise, as has already been said, there is no more daylight available, just the same available at different times, and as for being in line with europe, tosh! Is the whole of europe synchronised? I don't know nor do I care, If I want more time I get up earlier, is that too difficult?
It is enjoyable to have long summer evenings but if that is what you want, move North
Stick with GMT, or UTC or Zulu which ever you may care to call it, but whatever it is the Sun will rise and set at its own time, not ours!
Mal

 

[BlueChip]

The compelling reason for change is the saving in lives and injuries that this will mean. ROSPA claim that a move to SDST could reduce road deaths by around 80 per year and serious injuries by around 212 per year

All the safety organisations are in favour of the change - see http://www.rospa.com/about/currentcampaigns/lighter-evenings/default.aspx?nf=99

Even the National Farmers Union is neutral on this. In winter most livestock is inside in lit sheds so it doesnt make much difference to them.

The last time change experiment proved conclusively there was a significant saving in life.
For that reason alone the argument is overwhelming for the change - personaly I'm just looking forward to longer warmer evenings in the summer.

 

[LittleSister]

If I want more time I get up earlier, is that too difficult?

Not at all. Just as long as you don't want to get a bus or train to work, and your boss doesn't expect you to stay to normal finishing time, even if you start an hour early, just because that's when all the other businesses and punters are around.

When I'm away sailing, I can start and finish whatever time I like, or to catch the sun/moon or tide, but if I want a sail after work, and works says I can't leave until X o'clock, for the reasons mentioned above, then I don't get the full benefit of the precious daylight there is.

In fact, now i come to think of it, I'd be all in favour of GMT +12!, Then we could get work out of the way during the hours of darkness, and snooze in the sun, or go out to play in daylight. Romantic candlelit breakfasts, anyone?

 

[boatmaster]

Well at least we don't need a Bank Loan to cover the 25 Miles

It may take us 5 hours to get there but whats the rush anyway.

Lack of daylight by the sounds of it! now if we go forward another hour, thats one less hour in the pub, another reason to hurry, yeah glad i'm a mobo.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

Kids that wont settle at 9:30 pm becuse its light
Trying to sleep at 11:30 but the revellers are still at it.

All these will become far worse.

 

[AdeOlly]

Kids that wont settle at 9:30 pm becuse its light

Try blackout blinds or just tight fitting venetians behind their curtains. Makes day all but the dead of night night!