Moving the clocks twice a year is a nonsense. A relic of muddled thinking, initiated during the war to allow farm workers to work later in daylight. It was a barmy idea then, it is a hilariously stupid one now.
Its the same argument these days for not doing it - builders, farmers, milkmen and the Scots all want to keep the current system. because they reckon they would losed out a lot if we went CET.
What none of them seem to have the brain cells to work out is that the number of hours of available daylight in any given day has bugger all to do with what a clock says..! They lie in bed for an extra hour, sleeping the daylight away, then complain that little Johnny has to walk home from school in the dark.
Why don't people just get up an hour earlier and go to bed an hour earlier, start work/school etc. at 8 instead of 9 etc., problem solved.
If lessons don't start until 9am and then the child wants to leave at 2pm instead of 3pm, I'm sure the local authority education police might have something to say about it.
However, not really an issue in most of the schools in my area, because the majority start at 8.20am and finish around 2.30pm. Teachers must love only having to work half days.
We live ON the 0 degree meridian - i.e. our LOCAL time IS GMT (UT/UTC/Zulu
- what ever) so the sun crosses the meridian (due south) at or around noon when we are on GMT. i.e. daylight is evenly spread round noon (middle of the day!!) So leave the bugger alone. quit mucking with it - it give me jet lag twice a year and no nice holiday either!
As I say we are at (or around) 0 degrees so lets have real local time - sun is due south at noon - i.e. GMT
There was a time when Portugal - west of us - was on CET and that was STUPID, talk about dark mornings, light nights!!even worse in the summer
The nomad - voting for any party that will leave the bloody clocks on GMT
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