"Dougal" <DougalAThiskennel.free-online.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Badger wrote:
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>> "Arden" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>>Same in the US. Seems that we really might be "Englishmen gone wrong"
>>>as Alistar Cooke once said (In jest, I believe).
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>> 'Bout time we ditched all this tedious screwing around with clocks and
>> left everything on BST all year round. What's the point in putting the
>> clocks back an hour and making it dark both when you go out and come
>> home, it's been proven that there are more accidents in the evenings
>> after the clocks go back so why do it?
>> Badger.
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> What, and give the southerners what they want!
Hmmm.... do I sense a touch of resistance based on the positioning of a
border? ;-)
> You're one of the last people who I would have expected to support the
> idea.
Why do you say that?
> What does Derry think?
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> Having witnessed the late 1960's trial when in Glasgow, I found that not
> seeing proper daylight until mid-morning was most depressing ..... and you
> are much further north than that.
Well, I can't comment on that trial as I wasn't born until 1965 and I
appreciate what you say re. mid-morning, although having said that it's
daylight on the Moray coast by 8.30 - 9.00am even in the darkest period of
the winter so I don't see an extra hour making all that much difference to
anyone for the 3 or 4 weeks of real darkness right in the middle of the
winter, if you were getting that hour back later in the afternoon.
Was the trial only in Glasgow? If so, there are logistical horrors for
commuters nowadays and any further trial would need to be country-wide, it
would also tie us in nicely with CET for those companies who do a lot of
business with Europe. As much as I'm anti-European at heart (an island is an
island etc etc), I appreciate the needs of business's that rely on export
trade.
If I were given the choice between darkness at both ends of the working day
or just one end, I'd go for one end only, any time. I remember growing up in
Falkirk (Not my choice! ;-) ) as a kid and being thoroughly depressed even
then about going both to and from school in the dark!!
The body is more alert after a good sleep than after a days work, hence the
safety issues with travelling home in the dark, and there are a lot more
vehicles on the roads carrying more commuters than ever before so maybe it's
time to drop old differences and change for the better? Even extending the
BST timescales by a month either end would be a start, surely?
Badger.
