British Summer Time!!!!

Kremmen · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:33 am

If it was up to me I'd leave the clocks on GMT all year. I don't see the point of 'Summer Time'.

They reckon it's for the farmers ? I doubt the farmers could give a hoot as they get up at milking time whatever the clocks say.

jim · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:10 pm **Posts:** 1461

It must be the cows then 8-)

Jon · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:05 pm **Posts:** 2807

Kremmen wrote:

If it was up to me I'd leave the clocks on GMT all year. I don't see the point of 'Summer Time'.

They reckon it's for the farmers ? I doubt the farmers could give a hoot as they get up at milking time whatever the clocks say.

Uh?????? No way!!!! If it was up to be, I'd leave them on BST all year. The last thing we need in the depths of winter is to make the evenings even darker.

I'd have BST all year round, or BST in Winter and BST+1 in summer, which is how I remember it in Belgium. Fantastic.

jim · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:10 pm **Posts:** 1461

during WW2 we had double BST and remember it being light at 10o/c at night. just so them lazy cows could have a lay in.

Kremmen · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:28 am

Jon wrote:

Kremmen wrote:

If it was up to me I'd leave the clocks on GMT all year. I don't see the point of 'Summer Time'.

They reckon it's for the farmers ? I doubt the farmers could give a hoot as they get up at milking time whatever the clocks say.

Uh?????? No way!!!! If it was up to be, I'd leave them on BST all year. The last thing we need in the depths of winter is to make the evenings even darker.

I'd have BST all year round, or BST in Winter and BST+1 in summer, which is how I remember it in Belgium. Fantastic.

But we are on GMT in the Winter now ! If we stayed on BST all year then the Winter mornings would be darker for longer, just like Sunday when it didn't get light till nearly 07:00 instead of 06:00 on Saturday morning.

Jon · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:05 pm **Posts:** 2807

That's fine by me. Much rather have the light in the evenings.

geezer466 · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:06 pm **Posts:** 1307

The reason the clocks change is due to the effect of daylight in Northern Scotland. The further North you are the later it gets light. If they didn't change the clocks there was an argument more kids would be killed on the way to school in the dark mornings.
I went to Primary school in Lossiemouth on the Moray firth and can remember it just getting light for about half 8. Course the flip side is it is light almost to midnight in Summer and you can sometimes see the effects of the Borealis.

Off course should Salmond get his way then we can go ours.

Sunshine · **Joined:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:36 pm **Posts:** 888

Am I the only one that remembers the 3 year experiment back in the late 60's or early 70's when they didn't change the clocks?

It was OK down south but the poor kids going to School in Scotland had to go in the dark which was quite dangerous for them. There's no real answer to this question - it suits a lot of us not to change the clocks but the Scots suffer if we don't

Kremmen · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:31 pm

I must be the only one missing the point here.

When the clocks change to BST from GMT the mornings get darker not lighter !

Last week, at 06:00 when I was just arriving at work it was just starting to get light, now at 06:00 it's pitch dark.

Pam · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:44 pm

Jon wrote:

That's fine by me. Much rather have the light in the evenings.

Me too!

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