Daylight saving time?

[Phil Pascoe]

It was the winters of 1968, '69 & '70 that we stayed on BST, my first 3 years at secondary school. I remember all school children in Northern Ireland were issued with reflective armbands as we ended up going to school in the dark - sunrise is roughly 30mins later than GB.

I remember that, third fourth and fifth year. I left for school at 7.45am in the dark.

 

[accipiter]

I used to work 12 hour shifts, rotating 4 days on 4 off - working day AND night shifts. Some shifts became 13 hours... some 11 because of the time change. Never been able to accept the reason for the change and can not see why the hour can't be split to 30 minutes and kept that way.

There are health reasons for stopping the ludicrous twice year time change.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I did eleven years of nights, week on week off. Mostly if I got the short shift I also got the long one. It was strange to walk out at 7.30am in the dark and then do it two weeks later in broad daylight.

 

[Vulcan]

Well, another jump to earlier nights again.

Do we still need this change in time? It neither saves daylight nor improves the working day, just shifts our clocks, length of daylight and darkness doesn't change, just the hour we measure it by.

Do we still need it? Should we abandon it?
Personally I think it's time to abandon it, what do you think?

Yes I agree it’s time to stop this nonsense. I think they should move the clocks forward 1/2 hour in spring and then leave it like that! what difference would it really make?

 

[treeturner123]

Good idea. After all India is 5 1/2 hours ahead of us now so they clearly have a 1/2 hour compromise!!

Phil

 

[Sachakins]

The only problem with spliting the difference, is that time zone changes are all in hour increments, (a couple countries aren't I think, and are 1/2 out)
Just put the hour on next spring for the final time and leave it at that, call it GBT and be done with it.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Obviously not.

 

[Etaf]

i remember this happening and i was at school

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topic...Britain,disadvantages of British Summer Time.

Has British Summer Time ever been changed since?​

With the war over, Britain returned to British Summer Time except for an experiment between 1968 and 1971 when the clocks went forward but were not put back. The experiment was discontinued as it was found impossible to assess the advantages and disadvantages of British Summer Time

 

[artie]

Just put the hour on next spring for the final time and leave it at that, call it GBT and be done with it.

Why not just stay on GMT?

 

[Daniel2]

We could try having no time at all

 

[HappyHacker]

I remember the BST experiment quite well. I thought it was much better.

I also remember some of the reports in the papers following the commons vote to abandon it.
The statistics showed more children were injured or killed on the roads in the morning durning the experiment. The fact that fewer children were injured or killed in the afternoon with overall result of fewer children being injured or killed was not reported until after the vote.
There was a rumour passing around the Commons on the morning of the vote hat there had been a bad coach crash in Scotland and many children had been killed, the rumour was false.

 

[mc281]

i remember this happening and i was at school

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topic...Britain,disadvantages of British Summer Time.

So therefore there's nothing preventing common sense.... What's wrong with GMT?

 

[stuart little]

There's a building site back of my place, since the clocks changed, they've start work an hour earlier. (Until the mornings get darker again) Not much noise, apart from the crane driver working backwards! (--to c-mas[ apologies to Spike] )

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Common sense would tell us to work in whatever hours are daylight if the job calls for daylight, but unfortunately school etc. hours don't change to allow for it.