So does this mean that during the summer we will have light evenings til around 10pm?

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A business opportunity for selling blackout linings methinks.

it's bright here til 10/11pm in the height of summer anyway! surely it is in england too?

Isn' pink, and they're jealous hence we in the frozen north will have to put up with even more darkness in wnter

it isn't, even...

feck off(them not you)why are they messing about with such strange things, havent they got better things to be spending their money on!..now they want to change how many hours there are in the day!!!!!!

I wouldn't mind it - would much prefer it was lighter in the evenings in winter - I'd then be able to do more in the garden at weekends, or go out for walks in the countryside (if only we were that orgainised!)

As I'm in Scoltand, it's light most of the time in summer anyeway!

I know it means that kids would walking to school when it's darker in the mornings - but they can wear high visibility vests. That's what we did when they did a similar experiment on the mid 60s. Unfortunately it wasn't continued - apparently mostly due to complaints from the North of Scotland.

For me the "killer" (excuse the pun) justification is the lives it would save, rather than the energy it would save.

Brilliant, Republic and N.Ireland will be in different timezones!

I was at school during the previous experiment and it was grim. It didn't get light until 9am at the earliest and that was in Kent so further north would be even darker in the mornings. I certainly don't recall any balmy evening light, it's mostly too cold to be outside then anyway.

pmsl.... stleger.... hadn't even thought of that yet!

although bertie and crew (or whoevers running this country by then) will be quick enough to jump on the bandwagon

I'm not suggesting balmy evening light: it is just depressing when it gets dark at 4 o'clock. I'd rather have some "extra" time then rather than first thing in the morning. And there is something nice about a winter walk - you just dress up for it!

If we take ds to breaksfast club in the morning (at 8.15), it is already murky - so if we were on GMT+1, it would just be a bit darker.

It also means when he is older, and walking home himslef, then it will be lighter - which is apparently the key time for the accidents, when people are tired after a day at the office.

The headmaster of my primary school was horrified that they supported the expiriment - even then, they agreed with the argument that it would save lives.

Does this mean that we wouldn't have to put the clocks back and forward an hour? I always think that is silly. I'd prefer the evenings to stay lighter really.

Liveline listeners will have something to say if Bertie goes down that route. I hate dark winter mornings, the last experiment was horrible.

No princessmel - we would still be putting the clocks backwards and forwards. - but we would go forward one hour permanently. So wehreas in winter we are currently on GMT, we would be on GMT+1 (as is Central Europe) and in Summer, instead of GMT+1, we would be on GMT+2. So we wuld permanetly at the same time as Central Europe.

I seem to be the only one who didn't find the experiment grim! Amybe becasue I was already used to walking to school in the murky pre-dawn light, so it was only a wee bit darker. Plus I remember appreciaitng the extra light at the end of the school day - whereas otherwise it was already getting dark when you left school (that was in the days that schools finished at 4).

But as I say, my main reason for being convinced about the benefit is the extra lives that research suggests would be saved.

It's depressing to have to get going on dark mornings. Getting dark at 4pm is cosy.