bigflesh Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 As the days sunlight begins to 'draw in', should England switch to friendlier hours? Should our archaic time zone be brought into line in order to offer more daylight hours during the day in autumn and winter? What impact, beneficial or otherwise would a change have? By the way, is it currently daytime in Iceland, given that it's midnight now (at time of writing) and dark here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Personally I'd embrace any change that extended daylight hours into the evening. I don't give a frick about mornings but I get sooo p.i.s.sed off when its friggin dark at 4 o'clock, its just so depressing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Glory Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Brought into line with what? The EU? It's a perfectly adequate system. Leave as is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigflesh Posted September 15, 2006 Author Share Posted September 15, 2006 Brought into line with what? The EU? It's a perfectly adequate system. Leave as is. It was brought out during the 1st world war to increase working hours! And, to stop folk going to the boozer! Is this adequate .... now? Maybe it should be brought into line with modern life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizzmobile Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 A totally redundant system. Let's stay with normal time all year round, ie not go onto BST. Agree with taxman re dark at 4pm. I used to leave school at half 3 and it was pitch black already, already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigflesh Posted September 15, 2006 Author Share Posted September 15, 2006 Hmmm, it's rather depressing really, but at least it gives us hope for Summer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pk014b7161 Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 they have been on about changing for some years now, but nothing seems to get done . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittenta Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 As the days sunlight begins to 'draw in', should England switch to friendlier hours? Should our archaic time zone be brought into line in order to offer more daylight hours during the day in autumn and winter? What impact, beneficial or otherwise would a change have? By the way, is it currently daytime in Iceland, given that it's midnight now (at time of writing) and dark here? So how would you change it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisan Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 A totally redundant system. Let's stay with normal time all year round, ie not go onto BST. Agree with taxman re dark at 4pm. I used to leave school at half 3 and it was pitch black already, already. The trouble there is that in the morning it would be coming light at at about 2.30 am, and going dark at about 9.30 pm. The best thing would be to to GMT + 2 hours. The downside is dark mornings in the winter, but we get those anyway, and less sync. with USA. The upside is lighter evenings, The hottest part of the day is moved forward by 2 hours ,so less costs in air conditioning in offices etc. More time for us enjoy the summer weather in our time off work. It would also give us a jump on the rest of Europe who would still be abed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigflesh Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share Posted September 16, 2006 So how would you change it? I'd re-position the sun in the sky. The easiest option would be to do something with clocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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