Clocks go forward Sunday March 31st

[ciphergoth]

I mention this because I found an interesting website, thanks to lapis_lazuli:

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html

If we adopted the "Double Summer Time" proposal, by which the clocks are set to GMT+1 in winter and GMT+2 in summer, then we'd effectively be in the same timezone as the rest of the EU...

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[akicif.livejournal.com]

This suggestion comes up every now and again (I've memories of it being done during the seventies oil crisis/petrol rationing era). It's positively lovely for folk dahn sahf, but the road accident rate in Scotland and Northern Ireland went up somewhat, to say the least.

Of course, if we introduced a +1 on the timezone and adjusted school hours separately (I've a feeling this was a Scottish Tory compromise -- or was it the SNats when they were 'tartan Tories'?), then you don't get so many schoolkids run over, but it becomes somewhat harder for working parents to be useful members of the workforce (hey, maybe that was a win from the Tory point of view)...