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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | UK clocks change trial being considered |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15490249 Can't find the original thread  That's going nowhere as a result of the Scots it seems, and I personally am glad as I've never been a sun worshipper and my eyes suffer with glare anyway. Plus the dark just means less prats on the walk to work in the mornings, I think it scares them 
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: UK clocks change trial being considered |
England should go ahead and do it without Scotland. |
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: UK clocks change trial being considered |
What about the farmers? Wasn't this tried before? Didn't it turn out to be not such a good idea after all? Or maybe I dreamt it...
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: UK clocks change trial being considered |
Cows need milking whether it's GMT, BST or CET. I vote we leave the clocks at GMT and be done with it. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: UK clocks change trial being considered |
TBH I'd be happy if all clocks could be magically changed so that midday was when the Sun was the highest in the sky. Makes telling the time and working out your heading much easier. |
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| Author: | leeds_manc [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: UK clocks change trial being considered |
Why would it make working out your heading easier? Surely you just need to take a look at the sun at the start of your journey and go off that information, changing the time doesn't change the position or behaviour of the sun. Also, watches are good for telling the time :p |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: UK clocks change trial being considered |
Now with added 'change your vote later if you want' poll 
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:39 pm ] | |||||||||
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+1 GMT is pretty close to the local time for most places in Britain so it makes sense to use it. If some people want to get up earlier in the summer, I'm not stopping them. Personally it takes me months for my body clock to adjust (maybe I was a cow in a previous life) leading to hundreds of hours of lost sleep. I very much object to being tortured in this way. Forcing everyone to f*ck around with the clocks also costs the world a fortune in this day and age were so many systems are time-dependant. The number of systems that do not automagically change twice a year is vast; and that's a lot of wasted engineering time sorting out a purely invented problem. |
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| Author: | adidan [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:46 pm ] |
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FU BST. GMT FTW. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:47 pm ] | |||||||||
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I see what you did there!  As for headings, if you point the hour hand of a glass watch in the same direction as the Sun and imagine a line midway between the hour hand and twelve o'clock position, that's south. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:49 pm ] |
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I'll happily have darker mornings and lighter evenings. |
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| Author: | adidan [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:53 pm ] | |||||||||
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^ this. Who is even awake on the way to work anyway? I used to get on a bus to go to work at 5 in the morning, twas dark, twas fine. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: UK clocks change trial being considered |
I'm awake and I have to drive. TBH having some light makes it easier/less dangerous. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: UK clocks change trial being considered |
How about if we did GMT in winter for the light mornings and GMT+2 in the summer for the long evenings? |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: UK clocks change trial being considered |
What we should do is figure out a way to stabilise the Earth's axis so it's exactly 12 hours daylight and 12 hours night all the way through the year. Would stop any silly arguments or experiments! |
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