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My theory is that because we a such a big country in the banking industry because we are in between east and west we wont get rid of GMT. Otherwise it's less inbetween the usa and asia.tonfoil hat
Poll: Woo-hoo, the clocks go back to GMT this weekend!
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This. And it doesn't help that all through the summer, people quote GMT as local time 'cos they're idiots and assume that because we're in the UK, we're always on GMT.
Caporegime
I prefer the lighter evenings in the summer and earlier darkness in the winter, so I guess I’m happy as it is.
Insomniacs love this time of year. Only four sleeps until Christmas!I'm so happy that we'll be back to GMT (UTC, Z, etc) this coming weekend.
We invented time, we invented Greenwich, we invented longitude and we invented clocks*
We'll be back to proper time again... BST, you can do one!
Everyone gets an extra hour sleep, except for insomniacs who can have an extra hour staring at the ceiling.
*some of this may not be entirely factual
they change their clocks at different times to us anyway. it's not going to make any difference. Also the entire EU block is stopping the switch of times from next year so we'll have to contend with that regardless. My concern is that if we stick with a single time it'll be GMT. I want light evenings in summer as a minimum thanks, so i think it's best to just leave it as it is to be honest.
I usually sleep badly but it's better at this time of the year as I'm not woken at 3 or 4am by the light and the birds singing.
Caporegime
One of my relatively nearby neighbours keeps chickens and has a cockerel. That damn thing doesn't care what time of the day or night it is, I was woken up a couple of nights ago at just after 03:00 by it crowing. I'd only been asleep for a short while as I suffer dreadfully with insomnia
One of my relatively nearby neighbours keeps chickens and has a cockerel. That damn thing doesn't care what time of the day or night it is, I was woken up a couple of nights ago at just after 03:00 by it crowing. I'd only been asleep for a short while as I suffer dreadfully with insomnia
You'll have to see if you can get a muzzle for it
Associate
Just fixed that
You monster!
Soldato
SDST would be interesting, wonder if that’d ever happen?
Soldato
I don't really care which is chosen, I just hope we do what the EU voted for in 2019 and stick to one time. I don't get any more sleep when the clocks go back, but I always lose an hour when it goes forwards. Will have to see what our wonderful government decide as it's supposed to kick in next year.
Seeing as we're going to be out by then I doubt whether it'll make a difference.
If it were going to happen here, I imagine it would be "permanent summer" to keep most people happy. Which I would personally hate. It's a shame Feek messed up the polling options, as usual, since this way we can't have anything close to an accurate result.
Caporegime
The principle of BST was introduced back in WWI - 1916 - because the Germans had implemented a similar thing a few weeks earlier to help their war effort, the British panicked and thought it would give them (ze Germans) an advantage and we’ve been stuck with variations of it ever since. (we then had double summer time during WWII)
Why we still follow this is beyond me!
Why we still follow this is beyond me!
Obviously you are not rich/Gentry Tory voting landowner/peer where you require your workers to be up and out to get the most of the daylight so you can keep on eating truffles on the ski slopes of swizterland before you pootle off to the cayman islands "to get some sun"
Soldato
My mum was working during WW2 while double summertime was engaged, she said it never used to get dark until midnight some days!
Can you imagine.
Personally that would be amazing.
If I literally could chose I'd have +1 in summer and +2 in winter.