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...

Comments

[nitoda]

I actually remember going to school during the experimental winter - seeing the dawn rise as we sat at our desks was ... odd ... to say the least. I do think it is unreasonable for children to have to go to school in the dark and come home in the dark if it is avoidable. SAD affects so many of us these days. Perhaps we could adjust the school (and work?) day so that it is longer in summer and shorter in winter so we could always have some leisure time in the sunlight? Don't suppose that would prove a popular move, somehow ;-(