alcazar

iTrader: (2)

As per title, really. Apparently, we could save around 150 lives per year by having lighter nights, and also stop around 450 accidents.

We'd also have the same banking hours as Europe, so avoiding the two hours we now have per day when either we, or they are closed.

It seems to be the Scottish mafia once again standing in the way.

Alas

As a Scot I'm quite happy to keep it as it is. Which part of Europe are we meant to match with??

And less of the racial stuff or I'll send round Fat Tony

davegtt

lighter nights means darker mornings, no?

Alas

No need to be realistic and spoil a topic

David Lock

May be my brain doesn't work on a Monday morning but where's the obvious option of just leaving them one hour forward like in the summer?

davegtt

Sorry spud, didnt realise it was a worthy topic to spoil

Please excuse me today people, dont feel very well.

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

yes you should and you should also change your currency so it would make it easier for us mainlanders to come and visit

DCI Gene Hunt

That's why we haven't

Leslie

I think we should stay on GMT the whole time.

Les

Karl 227

Yes, and you should also start driving on the correct side of the road, starting with lorries, in Ireland

Geezer

I wholeheartedly agree with that. I don't see the point in BST to be honest, what does it give us?

Geezer

StickyMicky

is it really because of the scottish farmers?

SJ_Skyline

I couldn't really care what they do with the clocks TBH. In another week or two and it will be dark in the morning when I go to work and dark in the evening when I leave work... c'est la vie

StickyMicky

i must admit, Sunday just gone, the clock change really benefited me,

i knew everybody would technically be up early as there bodies would be used to the old time.

sure enough i drove to the carwash at 9am and found people queuing up outside waiting for me

nice reasonable day for the time of year yesterday (164 cars)

StickyMicky

when i was working for nissan building the cars, i would not see any sunlight what so ever until saturday afternoon and sunday

i was smack bang in the middle of the factory and used to chill out in our rest area at break times. you could see sunlight if you went to the main canteen but i could never be **** with the ques (instead of the various sections staggering there break times the whole fooken place stopped at the same time )

mad place to work TBH

scoobynutta555

Who want's the extra daylight at the start of the day, I'd rather have it in the evening. Hate it when it gets dark around 4pm!

SWRTWannabe

Nobody's pointed out that the 450 accidents are probably all caused by people fiddling to adjust the clock in their cars while they're driving

richiewong

Fnar Fnar

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

How else do you expect to stop that many accidents?

Alcazar

Jerome

The poll is missing an option to stay on GMT all year round.

I also like the thought of taking away the glee that some police forces get for making sure nightclubs shut an hour early in spring, when the clocks go forward, whilst denying them and extra hour in autumn when they go back.

It is also a bummer when you get guard in the military around the time when the clock goes back and you get to do an extra hour.

Leslie

If it was left on GMT, wouldn't we have less accidents in the lighter mornings? Why are we more likely to have accidents in the dark anyway. I think that is a bit of propaganda.

Les

Coffin Dodger

Don't ******* think so. It's called Greenwich Mean Time because Greenwich is in England and is the central reference point for all the other timezones used across the world! How great would that be if we the keepers of GMT didn't even use it

Whatever next, you'll be wanting us to adopt the Euro next. We didn't win two world wars for nowt you know.

magepaster

iTrader: (2)

NO! leave our bloody time alone, I say.
We are an Island race why bother "fitting in" with those euro buggers.

It's not as though anyone in the UK is ever going to decide they suddenly fancy a drink at the local pub and then want their Spain dwelling chum to meet them at the pub at 7.30

Keep johnny foreigners clocks at bay and all that, what!?

_RIP_

So how does it feel to be a demasculated bitter little engerlander?

Shark Man

In many other Eurpoean countries the clocks went back an hour just like here yesturday.

rik-1

We could stay with GMT and work the same hours as Europe and have the lighter evenings.
All we need to do is work the summer hours ie. 9-5 BST which is 8-4 GMT. If we work 8-4 GMT all yeat round we won't have the bother of having to change clocks, we would have the lighter evenings year round and be on the same time zone as Europe in the summers.
We should be proud of GMT, it is also Universal time for the world, used by people like astronomers etc, even NASA use Universal time to avoid confusing with several time zones in the USA.
I have ancestors from Scotland but Scotland now has its' own assembly, so could decide for itself what timezone it wants to be on.

GC8

It used to be in France; perhaps the cheese-eating surrender-monkeys want it back?

CrisPDuk

I'm sorry but that's bollox, the clocks jump from 02:00 to 03:00 in spring, so the nightclubs should be shutting anyway.

Conversely I have been in nightclubs at this time of year in the past and benefited from 02:00 suddenly becoming 01:00 I think you'll find that's the point where certain police forces attempt to shut clubs. But you'll probably find most managers know that bit of the law far better than your average night duty plod

Jerome

Not bollox I'm afraid. I've been in nightclubs were the police have arrived in force to close the nightclub early on both weekends where the clocks changed. They even had a riot van outside (when a normal night didn't need one) to deal with the disgruntled clubbers.