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The Need to change clocks back and fourth
brain_higgy
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This weekend the clocks go forward for BST so end of winter and hello spring and maybe summer but why do we do this every yr
also do we need to change clocks every yr i mean really what the use or point cant we stick to one time change also other countries in the east dont do it only the western world
also do we need to change clocks every yr i mean really what the use or point cant we stick to one time change also other countries in the east dont do it only the western world
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Some Asian countries do use daylight saving eg Turkey but many don't, probably as the nearer the equator you are, the less difference there is in Summer and Winter daylight.
It's pointless and arbitrary, and is entirely down to personal preference and circumstances which end of the day you prefer your limited Winter daylight to be. Changing the clocks is an anachronism long overdue for abolition but I don't really care what they do beyond keeping it the same all year round. BST 24/7/365 would be fine with me.
I must admit when typing that I thought what a silly term "Daylight Saving" is
I wouldn't say its anachronistic though - many, if not most, of us don't get to choose our working hours so a nationwide change is still needed.
What I meant is that the clock changing was originally to help farmers wasn't it? In this day and age that's no longer necessary so we are left with personal preference and the population will never agree.
So Government should pick an adjustment based on some statistic or other and stick to that all year round. BST would do me fine.
BST would suit most of us. But our friends in the North get upset at the idea of dawn at 10am;-) The problem is that not only is Scotland north, its also a fair way west so dispreportionatly affected by year round BST.
Still, if that nice Alex Salmond gets his way...
There are no proposals to do away with the clocks changing though.
There's a proposal to move to BST in the winter and BST+1 in the summer.
But that involves just as much clock changing as now.
There are many people in the south east who don't want to see any change either.
We experimented with this before and it ended early as it was a failure and deeply unpopular, I recall going to nursery school in the dark and it wasn't nice, it feels more natural to be going home at dusk in the winter than to school in the dark
Many who want the change just want us to be inline with many countries in Europe which is not a natural time zone for us at all, and those who say it will increase tourism I feel are really clutching at straws , I work in the tourism industry and any such change would have no affect at all, tourists get on and do their thing anyway so the change of time wouldn't bother them, they don't all rush back to their hotel rooms the minute it gets dark.
I say leave it as it is, there are plenty of other things need dealing with so lets leave time alone.
Well if Scotland becomes independent maybe they can have their own time zone. Would that work?
That would be awful. The sun wouldn't rise until well after 9am in winter and it would still be daylight at 11pm in June, and for those further north than here it would be even worse.
..and not only would it be dark at 9 a.m. (or later) in mid-winter, this would also be the case in October, just before we put the clocks back. Sunrise in the UK would move beyond 7 a.m. in the second half of August, meaning it would still be dark at 7 a.m. by mid-September.
Let's make sure this never happens.
It would be of no benefit to anyone apart from those who seem to think we should be on CET 'for business reasons'. If they all got to work an hour earlier then that is their problem solved without upsetting the rest of us.
Which is ridiculous, would they say the same if it was the USA who we did most business with