British Summer Time 2007

[lazymoo]

Did anybody read in the paper yesterday that this year will apparently be the last time we Spring Forward and Fall Back. Apparently we will Loose an Hour on Sunday and then not gain an hour in October and then loose another hour next year.

Really? Why?

I don't really know, but I suppose we only needed to have our an extra hour in the morning so the farmers had more time to harvest their crops in years gone by. Apparently they will try this for a few years and then see what everbody thinks and if we don't like it they will go back to 'normal'

hurray! If that's true.

Don't like losing an hour in bed ever so it is good from that perspective. But why an hour next year as well?

I don't know it is just what I read, my FIL has just come around and says that: this was tried last year as well but the Law Lords threw it out, but they reckon it will get in this time.

after reading the reports from last year, wouldn't hold my breath. They don't seem interested in it.

\link{http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/sumtimetb.htm\DTI website}

What a lot of wordy words! will someone translate all that please?

it says there are no plans to change it

sounds like anti-eu hysteria to me

('they are making us change our TIME!!' etc etc)

Thanks Enid - the words just all blended together when i tried to read it!

Yeah – but it’s dated 2003

Could be me being a bit dim but what would that actually mean for us? Does it get lighter or stay lighter for longer?

I get really confused about all this too. Is that called double Summer time or something?

Is the thinking that it will be lighter in the winter months at peak travelling times of the day and will therefore be safer, especially noticable in the north of England and Scotland?

The argument for going to summer time and not coming back, is this: in the winter, we can either choose to have it dark for the morning rush hour or the evening rush hour. People are tired and stupid in the evening rush hour, so we should have it be dark for the morning rush hour.

Lots more people get run over when the time shifts back, because of people being dark and stupid in the evening.

I don't know if this is being changed, though.

is UK changing to European time? (am completely dyslexic about figuring it out)
didnt we try that in 1971, I remember arriving at school in the dark.

British summer time starts on mothering sunday (26) BUT last weekend (18) was the starts of Spring time

does that mean that we only had a week of Spring??!!

According to that link nothing is changing other than the usual which we already expecting. Hour forward this w/e, then an hour back at the end of Oct.

What is this springtime thing? It was the spring equinox, wasn't it? But totally unrelated to summertime.

Time changing around was ok in the old days when you just moved the hands on a clock. Now it involves digging out the instructions for things and swearing a lot

The equinox is when there are exactly 12 hours of sun up and sun down. The tide also is at it's highest I think.

Don't think it's anything to do with The EU or European time as our clocks will change this weekend too.

I had no idea last year and almost missed a flight!!

I definately read this in an article on Monday, but I can't find a link.

But, try reading this\link www.jonfry.com/2005/10/end-of-british-summer-time.html}

shoot, I've never done a link before do you think it shows

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