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Old October 14th 04, 10:29 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Adrian D. Shaw Adrian D. Shaw is offline
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Default Ligher Evenings Bill

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Paul C :
There's a certain illogicality here. Surely the rational thing is to
stick with GMT which, after all, represents our correct time zone, and
if people in England want to enjoy lighter evenings they should start
work an hour earlier.


I sort of agree. But that means businesses would have to work 8-4 (or
7:45-4:15) instead of their current hours. We'd have to persuade the TV
and radio schedulers to bring their programmes forwards an hour (otherwise
people just wouldn't get used to it), we'd have to change our ingrained
thinking about each hour's position in the day, etc.

It's easier to legislate a change to our clocks than to do the above.

Adrian
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