Topic: Messing about with the clocks. (Read 4795 times)

Bigron · « **Reply #15 on:** 03 November 2016, 23:02:38 »

Me too, and I also have vague memories of at least reading about "double summer time", where they put the clocks forward TWO hours in Spring!

Ron.

Andy B · « **Reply #16 on:** 03 November 2016, 23:13:12 »

It's not just the UK that alters its clocks, other countries have 'day light saving' too. And though I'm not keen on it getting dark at 3:30 pm, GMT is the time that the world sets it's clocks against and I don't want to lose GMT

Bigron · « **Reply #17 on:** 03 November 2016, 23:24:58 »

Andy, there is no way that we would ever lose GMT, it's the global datum point, along with the zero degrees meridian, also at Greenwich. Doesn't it make you proud.....

Ron.

Andy B · « **Reply #18 on:** 03 November 2016, 23:27:24 »

Quote from: Bigron on 03 November 2016, 23:24:58

Andy, there is no way that we would ever lose GMT, it's the global datum point, along with the zero degrees meridian, also at Greenwich. Doesn't it make you proud.....

Ron.

It does. But those that want to stay on BST would effectively mean that GMT wouldn't exist

Bigron · « **Reply #19 on:** 03 November 2016, 23:33:13 »

Does anyone actually want permanent BST? That's even more bonkers! Who on earth could possibly be so outside of reality to want that? Sorry Andy, I'm not attacking you but until I read you just now I hadn't heard of such a suggestion - is it real?

Ron.

Andy B · « **Reply #20 on:** 03 November 2016, 23:41:25 »

Quote from: Bigron on 03 November 2016, 23:33:13

Does anyone actually want permanent BST? That's even more bonkers! Who on earth could possibly be so outside of reality to want that? Sorry Andy, I'm not attacking you but until I read you just now I hadn't heard of such a suggestion - is it real?

Ron.

I've heard it said many times that people would like to stay on BST ...... as you say though, there are only so many hours of daylight in a day

Bigron · « **Reply #21 on:** 03 November 2016, 23:53:29 »

Yep, and no amount of fiddling with clocks will give us any more. Ok, so it IS a serious suggestion from some people; baffling! Why invent another datum when we already have one, a perfectly natural one dictated by the sun?
If the scotch want a different time zone, let them cast themselves adrift from England and set their clocks to whatever Mickey Mouse time they want - the Americans do it all over their country and even THEY can cope with it!

Ron.

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