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]

That idea did occur - hence the 'compromise' on school hours mentioned above (incidentally, it was 'north of Scotland' for values of 'north' equal to about Berwick and Carlisle). We're quite used to the more extreme diurnal variation in North Britain (ah, those summer evenings when it's still light enough to sit outside close to closing time), but it does make a difference when in the day the actual daylight occurs. Shifting road accidents from the evening to the morning isn't socially neutral - there are more children on the roads in the morning (oops, there goes my adfp membership card) than in the evenings. Not to mention that the time distribution of people commuting to work is skewed so that in the mornings most roads are more busy for a shorter time than in the evenings...

But I see I'm beginning to rant, and I don't want to turn this into a religious debate, so I'll shaddup.

(useful URLs: Global Ideas Bank on the subject, Mayer interviewed and finally something from Our Beloved Government that actually has some useful info in it.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I'm not advocating it, I'm just wondering if we're going to see it pitched as an EU harmonisation thing.

of course it would suit me since I work with people in Berlin! But that's not really a good reason...