In message , Paul C
writes
Split times between England and Scotland is just asking for unnecessary
confusion within media and transportation industries.


Leave it as it is I say. There are always going to be groups with a
special interest in change, but I am sure our settled system has come
about through many many years of collective experience. More gain from
the way it is than through tampering. I too lived through the last
attempt and it was no fun. There seems to have been a lot of
'revisionist' analyses of the problems of the time and some attempt to
say they were not really that bad and would be better this time around.

Summer time kicks in about the right time to allow such things as sports
clubs to get on with evening sessions outdoors in natural light. Any
earlier and there still would not be enough light. Possibly carries on a
bit late though into autumn for these kind of things, but the day length
is still sufficient for most to function normally.

Winter hours are most critical in the north and listening to whiners
from the south banging on about it makes my eyes glaze over. They have
considerably more daylight in both the morning and the evening so it is
a whole heap less critical for them than for the north.

Splitting the UK into time zones? Interesting concept and it would last
a year or two at most. It would cause lots of problems especially in the
logistics industry.

Having a weather and daylight related occupation I normally run my life
by GMT and ignore time changes, but this causes confusion even in my own
household. I get bit annoyed when someone else comes in and changes
clocks that I have been leaving deliberately on GMT (such as in my
trucks) because they think I should work on the same times as everyone
else. (It is only actually important to keep the GMT thinking in the
couple of weeks immediately adjacent to the clock change dates, as
throughout the summer we have heaps of daylight here.)

In winter I come in in the dark, get everything organised at base while
it gets light, off out into the country, and can work till about 4 in
the darkest weeks, back to base, unload, then off home. Fits my life
best, and a change skews it. I suppose that makes me a 'special interest
group' too, but one that says leave well alone.


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Murray McGregor