This Sunday, clocks will go back across the UK, marking the end of BST. The change is scheduled for 2am, so we all get an extra hour in bed, but it also means the evenings will look darker sooner. It was introduced during WW1 in 1916 to help conserve fuel and make better use of daylight hours. In the UK, clocks now go forward on the last Sunday in March, but there's a growing debate over whether changing the clocks still serves a purpose, especially given modern energy use and flexible working.
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Nae King! Nae quin! Nae Laird!
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Get rid of it, stay with Greenwich Mean Time
#DitchDaylighSaving #DitchBST
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in reply to Pete Carrier CARRIER-media Ltd • • •I think daylight saving is a waste of time too. What would be useful though as if you guys in the UK would go onto permanent Australian eastern(Sydney, Melbourne) time (GMT - 10 hrs). That would be good as it would sort out so many problems for us all. How about it?
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in reply to Eric the half-a-bee • • •@Ericthebeeover2 I mean the clue is in the title Greenwich Mean Time.
Insert appropriate nonsense about ruling the seven seas.
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in reply to Pete Carrier CARRIER-media Ltd • •We still rule the seven seas, you'd be surprised how long it take with a 12" ruler!
Is this nonsense enough?
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Yes and I think it’s about time for Britannia to start ruling the waves once more too.
Seriously though, I did enjoy visiting #Greenwich and seeing all the brave attempts at creating an accurate clock to determine #longitude, on display. Amazing that the winning design adopted was so compact too!
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in reply to Eric the half-a-bee • • •One of the highlights of a tourist visit to London was the Greenwich Museum at 0° & a bookstore at the bottom of the hill.
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Trouble is having to surf under floodlights…😳
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Yes you’re right; thanks for the correction, We are now on summertime here, known locally as eastern daylight saving time (EDST).
This means that when it is 11:28 GMT it’s 11:28 + 10:00 + 1:00 (extra hour for summer time). So it’s 22:28 (EDST) as you concluded.
It would also be beneficial then if WE went onto #GMT and did our surfing under the floodlights. This way the #sharks wouldn’t be able to see anything and, as they don’t have headlights, they would have to call out like this:
“ Excuse me, but is that a #surfie I can hear over there? Would it be okay if I were to come over and bite you?”
To which you could answer “ No! Piss off!” Thus saving a lot of lives annually.
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in reply to Col • • •I love daylight saving.
I don't need sunlight at 4 am. I can't use it because I'm off to work in town a bit after 5am. But I can certainly use it after tea to get things done in the evening.
I hate the lack of light in winter. It's dark by 5pm and I still have At Least an hours work before I'm done each day.
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in reply to Arapalla • • •@Arapalla "DST" can be achieved by simply winding one's alarm clock to go off sooner.
This requires no permission from the government, it's a personal choice.
Businesses are similarly able to vary their business hours, if it makes economic sense for them to be open an hour earlier (and closing an hour earlier) in summer, nothing prevents them from doing so.
DST might have "advantages", but the additional edge cases in systems (both human-implemented and machines) it introduces comes at a tremendous cost that could be better redirected elsewhere.
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