Time, time, time ...

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1791764]

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[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

(*) Trial year-round GMT+1 but allow the constituent nations to opt out. (It'll be a disaster.)

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

GMT+1 all year round would be fine for England & Wales & also fine by me while I'm in them, but not so good for Scotland. (Suspect NI falls between those 2 stools?)

I see no particular reason why Scotland and England can't have different times personally but it might take a lot for people to get used to it get used to and be politically controversial. It could even damage Scottish business interests and it would complicate all sorts of things such as internal flights for example. Having said that, if the London government decide to change it, maybe Scotland would continue to protest? Who knows.

Winter sucks whatever the clock says IMO.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Not being a morning person I would much rather have what little light there is in the afternoon. I seem to recall hearing that the road-accident argument favours more light in the afternoon as pedestrians and drivers are more tired than in the morning (whether it's dark or light) or something. I wasn't interested enough to make a note of the source of the stats for that but I do think that this argument is one of hte most important ones - children going to school or coming home in near darkness isn't good really, and it's worse in Scotland of course.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I guess the question is whether school/office hours necessarily have to be rigidly fixed. After all, a substantial chunk of China runs with office hours 10am-6pm rather than 9am-5pm because if they used "normal" hours they'd be in the dark at odd times. Perhaps some areas would be happier moving their core working hours rather than shifting the whole timezone!

I know the Scots are unhappy about the extra dark mornings, but the Scandinavians seem to cope fairly well with considerably more darkness in winter so it's clearly something that can be managed if there's no escape! I personally find evening light is more useful than morning light.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

I hate hate hate dark mornings, and I'm in Surrey. For as long as I have to be in work at 8.45, I would much rather have the darkness in the afternoons.

[segh.livejournal.com]

We tried BST all year round. Most people hated it and the number of children killed on accidents rose. Most politicians are too young to remember, I suppose.

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Oops- wrong one- I meant to click on GMT all year round!

[findabair.livejournal.com]

You should be the same as us, obviously - would make it even easier to come visit :-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Greenwich should be on Greenwich Mean Time. I'll accept a Daylight Savings adjustment since everyone does it, but it would be ridiculous for the country that is the entire basis of the international time zone system to use a different time zone to the one it should be using.