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Young Kenny
By: Young Kenny
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Messing about with time

Posted: Mar 27 2010 Views: 124

All this fuss and nonsense with adjusting your clocks and watches seems crazy to me.  I've never understood why we persist with it.  Are there any political parties that want to abolish it in their manifesto?  Is it just me being a whinging old git or does anyone else think it's complete madness?


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    RE: Messing about with time

    Hey YK
    I find it insane, too.
    Just leave it on BST all year 'round.
    I did hear say that it's a pain not being on GMT for Scotland but i don't truly know.

    I know it'd be kind of sad to lose the term Greenwich Mean Time as it's what the rest of the world works off
    but it really is just a name now and we are no longer the british empire and haven't been in a lonng time.
    We're now the 51st state
    Curious


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    Posted: Mar 28 2010 By: VO5 Jo   Posts: 6280
  2. /My-Page/?userId=11623

    RE: Messing about with time

    I changed the clock on my mobile before i went to bed, and then it changed it automaticaly during the night!

    Well confused this morning...

    Posted: Mar 28 2010 By: Geese   Posts: 8
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    RE: Messing about with time

    Well, up here, if we stayed on GMT, it would be daylight at 3am in mid summer which seems a bit of a waste.  If we stayed on BST, it would be dark at 3pm in mid winter which would be unbearable.  The main reason for changing is to keep kids safe on the way to and from school.  They tried staying on BST as an experiment in the late '60s and there were a spate of accidents.

    I don't mind the changing of the clocks - it adds to the psychology of leaving winter behind and also adds a little frisson of excitement - will my timed recording of the Australian GP be an hour late, an hour early or just right?

    I don't like technology that adjusts automatically because I can never remember which bits of kit do and which don't.  Much confusion.


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    Posted: Mar 28 2010 By: OchAye   Posts: 2598
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    RE: Messing about with time

    If they want to change clocks in Scotland then let them do it, but leave our clocks alone please. America has neighbouring states with different times, so why not the UK too? I do prefer having lighter evenings.


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    Posted: Mar 28 2010 By: MattSwain   Posts: 837
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    RE: Messing about with time

    I'm with Och Aye on this. I quite like the idea of marking the end of Winter, and launching into Spring. Especially after the long hard Winter we've had this time. It is SO nice to have some daylight left when work finishes! It feels like there is a lot more time to play with in the evening and for those travelling alone [not just the kids] it does make you feel less vulnerable. 

    I do like coming home and putting in my track suit bottoms and staying cosy indoors on Winter evenings.. but by the end of March I've had enough of it!

     


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    Posted: Mar 28 2010 By: Loppy   Posts: 791
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    RE: Messing about with time

    No YK, you're just a wingeing git!! lol

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    Posted: Mar 28 2010 By: TonyH   Posts: 1488
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    RE: Messing about with time

    28/03/2010 09:43:19, MattSwain said:
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    If they want to change clocks in Scotland then let them do it, but leave our clocks alone please. America has neighbouring states with different times, so why not the UK too? I do prefer having lighter evenings.

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    That's a good idea.

    We could have Scottish Mean Time. Thumbs up
    Posted: Mar 28 2010 By: anakim   Posts: 3503
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    27/03/2010 11:05:05, Young Kenny said:

    All this fuss and nonsense with adjusting your clocks and watches seems crazy to me. ...

    Ah yes- the ritual Changing of the Clocks!

    The occasion when some deluded people and MPs seem to think that the sun suddenly starts to rise later and set later, and thus in some mysterious and confusing way manages to shine for a greater number of hours each day and thereby magically create more hours of daylight.

    What a load of nonsense.

    This link puts a sensible perspective on it:

    http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/british-time/

    Posted: Mar 28 2010 By: Titus   Posts: 5307
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    28/03/2010 11:06:37, anakim said:
    "That's a good idea.

    We could have Scottish Mean Time. Thumbs up

    "

     Would you need to say Scottish Mean Time, most know the Scottish are the most generous folk around?

    Even better Scotch Drinking Time


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    Posted: Mar 28 2010 By: Martin   Posts: 261
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    RE: Messing about with time

    I find it strange that we can lower the suspension, get the geo done,polish and clean for hours on end but cannot see the reasoning behind pressing a button to make the day brighter.

    shame.

    Curious


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