On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:14:05 +0100, Howard Neil
wrote:

By the way,
what's this thing "work"? :-)

It's what some of used to do before we discovered life!

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow.
Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/4gday

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:14:05 +0100, Howard Neil
wrote:
Adrian Boliston wrote:
"Howard Neil" wrote in message
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I really do not care what the time reference is, I just wish that they
would leave it the same all year. It does nothing to change the number of
hours that are daylight and each year I seem to have more clocks to
change.


All my clocks and watch (& PC clock) reset themselves automatically, so no
forgetting to change them and ending up at work and hour early for me!


I have some clocks that do that but only a small percentage. By the way,
what's this thing "work"? :-)

I understand it is the curse of the drinking classes


--
Martin Smith

"No-One" wrote in message
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It's about time we scrapped GMT. Personally I'm sick of going to work in the
dark, then finishing work in the dark. It can't be healthy to only see
natural light at the weekends.


It makes you SAD, apparently.

Col
--
Bolton, Lancashire.
160m asl.
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk
http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co....rPictures.html

All my clocks and watch (& PC clock) reset themselves automatically, so no
forgetting to change them and ending up at work and hour early for me!

Most of mine seem to have stopped, because their batteries have gone flat.
As long as my watch keeps going I tend not to notice the rest

Anne

Yn erthygl , sgrifennodd
Murray McGregor :
However, with climate lagging behind day length by quite a margin you
still have people doing late summer activities well through September
and into October, so warmer weather outdoor pursuits still continue. Yes
they could start earlier, but seems to be the way most folk like it so
fine by me.

But no-one thinks of us poor gardeners who want to get out in the garden
after work in late February or March, do they?

GMT+1 through the winter for me. I don't mind whether it's GMT+1 or GMT+2
in the summer.

Adrian (12 miles ESE Aberystwyth, where the sun sets later anyway)

--
Adrian Shaw ais@
Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber.
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais uk

Yn erthygl , sgrifennodd
Brendan DJ Murphy :
Sorry, I disagree. Asking people go to work one hour later (or earlier as
the case may be) is much less confusing than having a small nation such as
ours split into two timezones.

Small? Nation? I think you're confused already! Or I am. 60 million ppl
is not small. What is a nation?

Adrian


--
Adrian Shaw ais@
Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber.
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais uk

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:29:36 +0000 (UTC), "Brendan DJ Murphy"
wrote:

It is far easier to
alter the clocks than to alter one's lifestyle

Hear, hear!

Sorry, I disagree. Asking people go to work one hour later (or earlier as
the case may be) is much less confusing than having a small nation such as
ours split into two timezones.

The confusion is caused by altering the clocks at all. If "daylight
saving time" has proven benefits (overall) we should leave it as it is
- all the year round. If it is an overall disadvantage, we should
stick with GMT - all the all the year round.

The arguments about accidents in Scotland caused by going to work and
school in the dark are weak because this is offset (more than offset
according to some studies, certainly in England) by an increase in
accidents in the darker afternoons. So set it - whatever it is - then
leave it alone.

--
Dave

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:00:24 +0000 (UTC), "Anne Burgess"
wrote:

Of course the real problem is that we are all thirled to the clock, instead
of being able to organise our own lives to use the daylight and the dark as
it best suits us individually.

Maybe that will be one of the benefits of the information revolution/home
working/online commerce and so on!

Yes indeed, some of us already do this. I "work" (for want of a better
word) at home, day-trading the US stock markets online. I'm doing it
now.

So... my working day starts at 3pm BST just after the US markets open,
and it usually ends around 9pm BST when they close (or sooner if I
have a good day). All this changing of the clocks is a double irritant
for me because they do it in the US, too - and usually on a different
day from us. Grrr!!!! I just wish they'd leave the time completely
alone, whatever it is *gnash*.

--
Dave

In message
"No-One" wrote:


"Steve Jones" wrote in message
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Just read this story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3732690.stm

Do we really want twilight to end at around 11:30 in June? I like it
dark when I go to bed!

I can see the advantage for the Winter months however.


Steve

It's about time we scrapped GMT. Personally I'm sick of going to work in the
dark, then finishing work in the dark. It can't be healthy to only see
natural light at the weekends.


I agree! One of the joys of working in France, as I sometimes have done is
the much more sensible use of the available daylight. Come the end of next
week, outdoor activity will be impossible in the week for those who work
normal office hours until the end of next March. At this time if year it is
always a depressing prospect.

Martin

--
Created on the Iyonix PC - the world's fastest RISC OS computer.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.dixon4/

I don't know but it's looking black over his mother's at the moment

PKH


"SSpiers" wrote in message
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Lock us in GMT and be done with it?
This Topic comes up every year at around this time. Oh and who is Bill?
;-)