Thus spaketh Ivor Jones:
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>> 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.
>
> So change working hours not clocks.
>

I can't, that my hours for my Job, it's not one or two weeks at those
hours, it's every week of the year.


>>> 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.
>
> I work shifts as well, but I don't see the difference between working
> 8 to 4 instead of 9 to 5. It's not that great a leap, surely..?
>

But I have to work 21:00 - 05:00. That's my job. The computers I have
to work on are already listed by my manager who works 09:00 - 17:00, but
even if I was to turn up at 20:00 I can't swipe out until 04:45 at the
earliest and security are told not to allow anyone off site until 04:45
at the earliest. We get paid for working extra hours past our usual
hours, but not for hours before, so even if I worked for two hours
before 21:00 I wouldn't be paid for them, and even if I finished at
03:00 I'd have to stay until 05:00. Sometimes when the swipe machine
stops working and you have good security on you can leave early, but you
don't know before hand if the machines are going to be faulty.

Yes, one hour difference isn't much of a difference but for most people
work won't allow then to alter their work pattern by one hour, all well
and good saying work from 08:00 until 16:00 but pointless when work only
allows you to work 09:00 - 17:00

>>> 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.
>
> So change working hours.

Pointless remark, if your place of work only allows you to work 09:00 -
17:00 you ain't going to be able to work 08:00 - 16:00


>
>> 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!
>
> It is real. Instead of the government saying change the clocks twice a
> year, they could just say change working hours instead.
>
>>
>> That is just a crazy thing to say, and pointless thing to
>> say.
>
> It's no crazier than adjusting every clock in the country twice a
> year.

The rest of Europe change their clocks at the same time also, so it's
not just this country that is crazy.

Yes it would be nice for people to be able to alter their hours, but
that's not going to happen, so changing the clocks is the best method.

Can you really see a business for example advertising their hours as
maybe 08:00, maybe 08:30 maybe 09:00, maybe 09:30 until maybe 16:00,
maybe 16:30, maybe 17:00 all depends on when workers come in to work.

There does need to be some set hours of business for many businesses if
they can't run 24/7.

> Ivor