Just read this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3732690.stm

Do we really want twilight to end at around 11:30 in June? I like it
dark when I go to bed!

I can see the advantage for the Winter months however.


Steve

Steve Jones wrote:
Just read this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3732690.stm

Do we really want twilight to end at around 11:30 in June? I like it
dark when I go to bed!

I can see the advantage for the Winter months however.


Steve

Also it would never be GMT in England and Wales, we would be either one
hour or two hours ahead. Bloody ridiculous.


Steve

"Steve Jones" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3732690.stm

Do we really want twilight to end at around 11:30 in June? I like it dark
when I go to bed!
Ugh, I suppose we're getting close to the time of year when these stories
surface again. My usual answer is "if you want to live an hour ahead of
yourself there's nothing stopping you, or alternatively move to France"!

However, this year as an experiment I've just said "nuts" to the whole sorry
mess of BST and stuck with GMT throughout (check the headers of this post,
for example). It's worked far better than I dared hope, although I do have
to remember to tack an extra hour onto times when talking to people (and
it's fun in other ways too, as I'm sure you can imagine :P).

As for people wanting to be 2 hours ahead of the sun, good luck to them -
the whole daylight savings thing of fooling your body into thinking it's an
hour later than it really is has always seemed daft to me!

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:22:41 +0100, Steve Jones
wrote:

Just read this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3732690.stm

Do we really want twilight to end at around 11:30 in June? I like it
dark when I go to bed!

I can see the advantage for the Winter months however.


When BST was used all year round back in the 70s there were many
people who thought the government had reduced the number of daylight
hours.

JPG


Steve

In message , Steve
Jones writes
Just read this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3732690.stm

I'd rather it was GMT all year, but is anyone going to listen to the
general public?
--
Tim

Lock us in GMT and be done with it?
This Topic comes up every year at around this time. Oh and who is Bill? ;-)

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:22:41 +0100, Steve Jones wrote:

Do we really want twilight to end at around 11:30 in June? I like it
dark when I go to bed!

GMT + 2 in summer when I was a kid -- wonderful!

Cycling to school during the GMT + 1 winter I don't remember any
significant problems, but I was more flexible then, and a lot more
resilient to crashes...


Mike

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:17:31 GMT, Mike Causer
wrote:

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:22:41 +0100, Steve Jones wrote:

Do we really want twilight to end at around 11:30 in June? I like it
dark when I go to bed!

GMT + 2 in summer when I was a kid -- wonderful!

Cycling to school during the GMT + 1 winter I don't remember any
significant problems,

That would mean sunrise in Inverness at 10 am in late December;
Kirkwall 10.10 am, and Stornoway 10.12 am.


--
Paul

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:22:41 +0100, Steve Jones
wrote:

Do we really want twilight to end at around 11:30 in June?

Happens every year, here ;-)

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/4gday

I can never understand this argument...
Split times between England and Scotland is just asking for unnecessary
confusion within media and transportation industries.


If the Scots want brighter mornings, then the simple answer is to the
Scotch to get up one hour later!

The solution is simple....
Just get all th Scottish businesses and schools to change their opening
times from 9am to 10am


Everyone wins.


Brendan