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fresh attempt to move clocks forward
BillieTheBot
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I have to say that living up here I am totally and utterly against this proposal, and hope it never comes through. In winter it would mean that sunrise wouldn't be until about 9.30am in December, which is fantastic.
Goes to show that the whole country only gives a toss about Londoners, really.
I have to say that living up here I am totally and utterly against this proposal, and hope it never comes through. In winter it would mean that sunrise wouldn't be until about 9.30am in December, which is fantastic.
Goes to show that the whole country only gives a toss about Londoners, really.
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I've heard it'll solve world poverty and cure AIDS as well.
I've a feeling it was trialled once before and then scrapped as it didn;t reduce accidents overall...
I've always believed Scotland should be allowed to keep the time it wants and England should put their clocks forward. The benefits would be quite significant.
That's certainly one of the benefits to us that I am looking forward to if Scotland decides to leave the union. :hyper:
Even when I lived in Yorkshire it wouldn't be getting light until 9am. York is actually halfway between London and Edinburgh:)
What you actually mean is that London will benefit...because only London matters, eh?
As far as I'm concerned, I like the sun to go down later, not earlier. Getting dark at 3.30 in winter is the single most depressing thing in the entire world.
Only Northerners say that!! I hate the fact that whenever a North/South divide is spoken about people only mention the capital. There is more to the South than London
Tell you what, solve poverty, conflict, disease and war and then I'll worry about what my watch says.
Up here the sun isn't properly up until half nine in winter anyway, and I fail to see any benefit in having the sun not actually come up properly until half past ten in the morning. Especially as it getting dark at half four instead of half three makes no difference in terms of rush hour traffic, which is where the supposed safety benefits come in.
In summer it'd also mean that it wasn't getting dark here until midnight. Fantastic if you need to get to sleep, eh?
Oh, and by the way, by "most" of the UK I presume you don't mean the 30m or so people who live north of the Wash?
And they are Scot's, they are always complaining.
Most people up here share the same opinion, because (believe it or not) most of us don't want to have been at work two hours before the bloody sun comes up in a morning. Especially as the "benefit" (woo, the sun goes down 30 mins before home time, not 90 minutes) is so negligible.
It's just pandering to whingeing Southerners, but I'd expect nothing more from a prick like Tim Yeo. The times are set up perfectly up here.
I sincerely doubt that many people at all from Manchester/Liverpool down would complain if the clocks were put forward. And correct me if I'm wrong but I believe there are a lot more English people leaving south of Manchester and Liverpool than north of it.
Sunrise is at about 8.10am in winter- which means I see the sunrise on the way to work. It's not up properly until about half nine.
An hour later means I'd be in darkness in the morning, and in darkness in the evening too, as the sun wouold still set long before I leave the office.
The difference between here and Yorkshire is about 10 mins in the morning and 10 mins in the evening. Most people would still complain. And there's about 10m people just living in the cities north of the M62.
At the same time, it'd be crap up here (on a schoolnight) with the sun not going down until midnight. On a Saturday night it'd be great though!
Erect a wall around the M25 I say!
Good idea.......
Britain would be a second world country without the South East. The SE subsidises the rest of the country.
I'm pretty indifferent tbh, don't really feel that strongly either way. It would seem a bit strange for England and Scotland to be in different time zones but I suppose there are lots of countries with different time zones within them.
Tbh I'm not convinced that moving the clocks forward will bring enormous benefits. It didn't really seem to work for Portugal. And winter wouldn't be winter if it didn't get dark horribly early.
we are fine as we are in regards to how our time is done
if you want extra sunshine hours after work, start earlier finish earlier...
That's not quite true- the Scottish gas fields do.
Plus an extra hour of sunlight will encourage people to walk more places, thus improving our health.
I don't have any issues getting up in the dark, to me it means an extra hour of light in my leisure time.