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"Plan to bring UK clocks forward"
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Posted 14 years ago #
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I prefer to think of it as putting the rest of the world's clocks back.
Posted 14 years ago # -
If god had meant us to have central European time he would have made us Swiss.
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I am unsure if my son would believe it was time for school if it was still dark !!
For a lot of the year it would make no difference to my morning commute - i.e. it would still be dark as I leave at 6, 6.15.
There will be a lot of people (not just here, but northern england etc) who would not be for this idea due to the dark mornings.
However I read an article last year which put the arguments for it in a pretty compelling way.
Its a tricky and emotive one, but the realist in me says that (given we are part of the union) if the majority of england and wales voted yes, I presume it would be carried fairly comfortably ?
Posted 14 years ago # -
If it's such a good idea, how come the Central Europeans haven't put their clocks forward already?
Posted 14 years ago # -
"Its a tricky and emotive one"
- and some people act as though their daylight is being 'stolen'.
And some people seem to believe it really would be!
Posted 14 years ago # -
Yep, it does seem incongruous.
Plus, there are lots of odd timezones around the world - I had a mate who worked in india for a while, and I am sure he was something like 4.5 hours ahead, so why we get our knickers in a twist is beyond me !
I have always like that 'put your watch ahead' bit of travelling to europe - it always makes it more exotic.
Posted 14 years ago # -
I grew up being 3.5 behind GMT, which meant that we were always a half hour (plus a few hours) ahead of anywhere else in the country, and we always got the news etc on the half-hour instead of the hour. Okay except for the jokes: 'the world ends at midnight,...12.30 in Newfoundland.'
Posted 14 years ago # -
There's no reason why Scotland or Northern Ireland need to have the same time zone as England or Wales. I can see the signs at the border....
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