Anne Burgess wrote:

Talk in today's Torygraph that the Scots will put the mockers on it -
again. The proposal, apparently, has to have the agreement of the
devolved assemblies.
There are plenty of us in Scotland who are fully in support of the proposal,
I can assure you, and we get pretty fed up at being tarred with the same
brush as those, all over the UK, who are opposed to it.

If devolution has truly occurred, why can't the Scots just arrange
their own daylight hours and leave the rest of the UK to sort out
theirs?
Probably because Westminster has not actually devolved this particular matter.

It's not as if a difference in time is going to cause too many
problems across the border. Some countries cope, quite happily, with
different time zones within their own country; why not the UK?
Quite.

Anne B

Coincidentally, but quite appropriate for this newsgroup, a change to double
summertime has a potential negative impact on the quality of weather
forecasting in this country. Most forecasts for Joe Public and for many
commercial customers are issued on clock time but operational meteorology
operates on GMT. In my days on the forecasting bench there was always a bit
more pressure during summertime because 00z and 12z were at 0100 and 1300 clock
time rather than at 0000 and 1200 clock time in winter, meaning that there was,
effectively, one hour less to produce the forecasts based on the 00z and 12z
data and computer runs. Under double summertime, 00z and 12z would be 0200 and
1400 clock time, taking yet another hour out of the system.

I'd be interested to hear the views of those currently "on the bench".

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.