"Joe Egginton" wrote in message
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On 20/12/2015 19:24, David Mitchell wrote:
On Sunday, December 20, 2015 at 6:27:01 PM UTC, JohnD wrote:
Sadly I missed marking the day, but I see from the SRSS tables (London)
that
the evenings started - to the nearest minute - to draw out last
Wednesday
(16th). Good to know psychologically if not visibly noticeable.

I noticed this looking at data for France. In Correze, where I'm headed,
it's now 1711, which, to my mind, really does make a huge difference
psychologically and is preferable to lighter mornings.
I hope that one day in the UK we'll move from putting the clocks back in
Autumn for a year and then move onto double summer time.
Yes I understand the arguments against, but surely there are more in
favour.


DBST in the summer and BST in winter, would work for England & Wales.
We'll have to hope at the next Scots independence referendum, the Scots
nationalists will win the referendum, then the jocks can set their own
time.

Does anyone know why we have to wait until the end of March for the clocks
to go forwards? Clocks don't go back until approx 6 weeks before the winter
solstice - there must be a reason they don't go forward until approx 12
weeks after it.

KotF