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Bob61

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Just think...only two months and we will be into the New Year and heading towards Spring and Summer. Doesn't seem long if you say it quickly.

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In the height of winter, we have daylight here from 10 am to 3 pm at most. So I'm not looking forward to the clocks falling back as it means it will be dark at 5 not 6 pm tomorrow. Further north, there's even less daylight. Some of us do work, I may leave home at 0800 for an hour's drive in a queue of tail lights, getting home 11 hours later in the dark again. Changing from GMT won't change the number of daylight hours - and camping gets more claustrophobic as we're indoors in a small space, for a very much longer portion of the day.

Come midsummer, it's never dark and the drive to and from work is a joy not something to resent, as I can get out of the queue to enjoy the scenery and it feels like my time not my employer's time. We could sit outside the MH reading all night if we chose to, we almost have to remember to go to bed. That beautiful summer light is one of the attractions of camping in the far north.

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Quote: Originally posted by ducgeo on 25/10/2014
If we all stick with GMT like it was formed we would know what we are doing.

I totally agree!

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Quote: Originally posted by 664DaveS on 25/10/2014

Quote: Originally posted by ducgeo on 25/10/2014If we all stick with GMT like it was formed we would know what we are doing.

I totally agree!

Absolutely! Politicians can't change the Laws of Physics to "save daylight" (or any other reason).

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I doubt I will get an extra hour's sleep tonight. It will take that extra hour reading the instruction booklet trying to work out how to set my watch back.

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Just found a couple of websites on this subject - Daylight Saving Time and The Campaign for Real Time.

...and this news item.

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Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 25/10/2014
I doubt I will get an extra hour's sleep tonight. It will take that extra hour reading the instruction booklet trying to work out how to set my watch back.

Got sympathy with that - only it's my radio clock alarm here! I may be retired but need to get up pronto every day.

Seriously, though, I hated the staying on BST at back end of the 60s - I had to be up at silly o'clock to catch a train to go to work and it was awful - and I was in Essex at the time. I'm a believer in our body clocks working on daylight - it's easy to adjust through the year to late May - early July with almost no dark - in fact, we usually don't star gaze between early April and mid-September - to the darkest days when we're lucky if we have 6 hours of daylight.

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Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 25/10/2014
I doubt I will get an extra hour's sleep tonight. It will take that extra hour reading the instruction booklet trying to work out how to set my watch back.

I stopped wearing a watch after standing on it, as it stops me 'clock watching'.

But my radio alarm clock sets itself, so no worries there for me.

As for GMT / BST? Set it and LEAVE IT ALONE! I don't see / hear of anywhere else in the world doing a similar thing.

Only here in blighty.

Politicians only do it to give us a headache as they can't control what happens naturally.

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One of my radio controlled clocks set itself and the other one didn't, so I had to remove the battery and re-insert it to get it to re-set to the correct time.

Then I have two heating and hot water clocks on the central heating system which don't automatically set and I had to get the instruction books out to re-set those. I then have to re-set the programmer because there is an hours difference in the economy 7 times.

I actually didn't have too much trouble with my watch as I miraculously managed to press the right buttons first time

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I would just leave everything as it will be time to put them forward by the time you get round them all

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Quote: Originally posted by GCMS2012 on 26/10/2014
.....As for GMT / BST? Set it and LEAVE IT ALONE! I don't see / hear of anywhere else in the world doing a similar thing.

Only here in blighty.....

Have a look here - there are just a few others.....

"Most areas of North America and Europe observe daylight saving time (DST), while most areas of Africa and Asia do not. In South America most countries in the north of the continent near the equator do not observe DST, while Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay and southern parts of Brazil do. Oceania is also mixed, with New Zealand and parts of southern Australia observing DST, while most other areas do not."

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Hey Gram, that's very useful - explains why my cousin in State was sooo grumpy the Sunday I rang her - her hour had changed - oops!

Weather here horrendous today so didn't really notice the hour change, apart from two clocks that normally do it themselves and decided to have hissy fits.

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Our dark winter evenings are the pay-off for those long summer days. Closer to the Equator, the length of daylight and darkness is much more even and much less varied through the year. Equatorial regions don't have those lovely long evenings either - it gets dark very quickly. Some people might not like our 'dark winter evenings' (personally, I love 'em - holed up at home with soup or stew!), but the pay-off we get in summer has got to be worth it.

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Quote: Originally posted by valkrider on 25/10/2014
Sunday 21st December is the shortest day. Then I can look forward to the summer.

I was going to say that,beat me to it.

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