On 22/12/2015 16:00, KotF wrote:


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.


I think that it's simply considerably warmer 6 weeks before the solstice
than 6 weeks after it. 6 weeks after is early February which is still
the depths of winter. No point in having the lighter evenings to make
them more 'useable' if it's too cold in practice to make much use of the
extra daylight.
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Col

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