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

[adjectivegail]

thanks for the heads up, i never know when these things happen! *makes note in diary*
interesting idea, that, the double summer time thing. it wouldn't start getting dark at 3pm in winter then, would it? which could only be a good thing...

[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)...

[lovingboth]

Part of Jeffrey Archer's manifesto for Mayor of London was to campaign for this for London at least.

The objections usually come from people in the north of Scotland complaining that they'd have to get up in the dark during winter. The idea that no matter what you actually call the time, the further north you go, the shorter the winter days, does not seem to have occurred to them.

[zotz]

Double summer time? If it's that important, why can't we just start work at eight instead? It's like making inches shorter because people aren't tall enough.

[ex-meta.livejournal.com]

I've got a better idea. Let's get rid of the whole stupid thing, and just have a "going to work earlier" season.

In fact, let's get rid of all time zones while we're at it, and settle on GeT/UTC.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nikki/]

Eh, it's all pointless to me because I'm crap at keeping track of time, I wake up when I wake up and I sleep when I sleep.. Recently I've been getting up at 4am, sleeping at 4pm (I sleep 12 hours @_@)

I can never remember when it goes to BST from GMT, the other day I realised it should happen soon and sat changing the date in Windows date/time settings until it changed... I'm sad.