Thus spaketh Ivor Jones:
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>> I'd rather have an extra hour of light in the evening,
>> I'm all for moving to CET/CEST. As for Scotland there is
>> no reason that they couldn't if they wished remain on the
>> current time, I have nothing against Scottish people as
>> they are human just like most of us, plus some of my
>> family are Scottish, also I never have any problems when
>> I'm up there in the cold, dark extremes of Scotland.
>
> But you don't *get* an "extra" hour of light..! The amount of
> daylight in any given day is not determined by a clock..!

I want the extra hour an the evening not in the morning, which was what
I said, I fully understand the amount of light in any 23hr 56 minutes
will be the same whether our clocks are on GMT,BST, CET or CEST. That's
not the point, because we live our time around a clock I'd rather have
the clocks moved to provider more light at night than in the morning.

>
> That "extra" hour you want in the evening is there, but it's in the
> morning, while you're lying in bed. Get up earlier and go to bed
> earlier; start school/work at 8 instead of 9 or whatever it is.
> Problem solved.

I come in from work at 05:00 during the summer this is light, during the
winter it is dark, so to me moving the clocks forward and hour will have
little affect on my coming home from work.

>
> Think about it; what did people do before clocks were invented..?
> They got up when the sun rose and went to bed when it set.
>

But clocks have been invented, and one or two people aren't going to be
able to change their working pattern, maybe for those who have flex-time
maybe, bt for those in a 09:00 - 17:00 job, I'm sure their boss is going
to be happy if the come in at a different time, the place may not even
be open.

Do you think my kids school is going to allow my kids to turn up and
start school work at 07:50 ? Come on keep it real!

That is just a crazy thing to say, and pointless thing to say.

> Ivor

I usually sleep around 11:00 / 12:00 until 18:00 / 19:00 as my
body-clock is 12 hours out due to normally working 21:00 - 05:00, so for
my days off it would be great (mainly during the summer) to have light
evenings.


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