We have a Minister for Time?!!

Chucken

It seems he/she is looking for the public's input on whether we should put the clocks forward, permanently.

Not forever now mind, just for 3 years to see how it goes!

I say do it and leave it alone forever....

Apart from that...what does the Minister for Time do all day?

What say you AH?

http://www.clare.fm/news/minister-time-looks-your-feedback

Sir Arthur Daley

Will it give us extra time in the pub?

conorh91

The Minister for Justice; 'time' matters come within remit of his Department.

source: Alan Shatter
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/shatter-appoints-himself-minister-for-time-and-tv-227006.html

Have to say, on the issue of clocks going forward permanently, it's a great idea. But it won't happen because of Scottish hill farmers not agreeing to it, and if the UK doesn't move forward, we won't.

scream

Hang on. I'll ask him who his favourite doctor is, and what he thinks of Clara. That'll give him something to do for a little while anyway.

JuliusCaesar

Chucken wrote: »

Apart from that...what does the Minister for Time do all day?

Kills time?




(Yes for heavens' sake leave the clocks alone, ridiculous moving them back and forth - too many clocks on everything nowadays, used to be just one on the mantlepiece and maybe an old-fashioned alarm clock in mother's bedroom so she could wake everyone and get the breakfast started mutter mutter rant rant on and on.....)

darkpagandeath

Chucken wrote: »

It seems he/she is looking for the public's input on whether we should put the clocks forward, permanently.

Not forever now mind, just for 3 years to see how it goes!

I say do it and leave it alone forever....

Apart from that...what does the Minister for Time do all day?

What say you AH?

http://www.clare.fm/news/minister-time-looks-your-feedback

Lords it up over us :P

Pumpkinseeds

I saw that on Clare Fm yesterday and was shocked, I thought it was a wind up, no pun intended

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Fukkit now I'm confused about daylight savings time completely out of season :mad: So would we be putting them forward instead of back in the autumn or just not putting them forward in the spring or what the hell would we be doing?!

greedygoblin

Julien Shaggy Scoutmaster wrote: »

Fukkit now I'm confused about daylight savings time completely out of season :mad: So would we be putting them forward instead of back in the autumn or just not putting them forward in the spring or what the hell would we be doing?!

We'd be leaving them as they are right now. Summertime all year round. No more putting them an hour back in October and forward again in March.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

greedygoblin wrote: »

We'd be leaving them as they are right now. Summertime all year round. No more putting them an hour back in October and forward again in March.

Ah ok, so leaving them forward rather than putting them forward? So it gets dark later in the winter but earlier in the summer?

catallus

I, for one, welcome this endeavour by our overlords.

But why don't they just go the whole hog and use UTC, instead of all of this other stuff?

Ruu

They listen to Time by Pink Floyd and watch time and time travel related multimedia.

Pat Mustard

conorh91 wrote: »

Have to say, on the issue of clocks going forward permanently, it's a great idea. But it won't happen because of Scottish hill farmers not agreeing to it, and if the UK doesn't move forward, we won't.

I agree that it is a good idea. But now that I've seen farmers working at night with floodlights on their vehicles, I don't think that modern agricultural work is dictated by daylight.

Maybe it's a different thing for Scottish hill farmers like you say, but whether it is our is not, it's not a good reason to prevent the removal of the now outdated idea of daylight savings time.

Amirani

Julien Shaggy Scoutmaster wrote: »

Ah ok, so leaving them forward rather than putting them forward? So it gets dark later in the winter but earlier in the summer?

Summer stays the same, nothing changes.

The only thing that changes is Winter - it gets darker later at night, but gets brighter later in the morning.

Harry Palmr

Ruu wrote: »

They listen to Time by Pink Floyd and watch time and time travel related multimedia.

So we really do have a minster that spends the day kicking around on a piece of dirt in his home town?

greedygoblin

Julien Shaggy Scoutmaster wrote: »

Ah ok, so leaving them forward rather than putting them forward? So it gets dark later in the winter but earlier in the summer?

Exactly. Winter mornings would be dark, but you'd have an extra hour daylight in the evening. Summer stays as is.

I think Britain tried it out back in the 60's for a year or two. One interesting thing they noted from what I recall was less road traffic accidents in the evenings but more in the mornings.

Obviously, if the UK decided to go that route again, we'd probably decide to quickly follow suit.

Ruu

Harry Palmr wrote: »

So we really do have a minster that spends the day kicking around on a piece of dirt in his home town?

Beats staying home to watch the rain.

Nib

A time-minister?

*badum tish*

Why can't farmers just stay in bed an hour more and get on with it.

I hope we do this. I hate early winter nights.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

greedygoblin wrote: »

Exactly. Winter mornings would be dark, but you'd have an extra hour daylight in the evening. Summer stays as is.

Sounds grand, I'm still confused but it sounds grand

Mrs Garth Brooks

Does that mean one hour later start in the mornings in winter?

Of course, to make up for it, one hour later finishing times too.

Bring back DMT!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Ireland
Before 1880, the legal time at any place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was defined as local mean time, as held by the appeal in the 1858 court case Curtis v. March.[5][6] The Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, 1880 defined Dublin Mean Time as the legal time for Ireland. This was the local mean time at Dunsink Observatory outside Dublin, and was about 25 minutes 21 seconds behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which was defined by the same act to be the legal time for Great Britain.[5][7][8]

corner of hells

I think we should add another day into the week while we're at it .Maybe between Thursday and Friday.

greedygoblin

corner of hells wrote: »

I think we should add another day into the week while we're at it .Maybe between Thursday and Friday.

That would break up the week nicely. It'd have to be a day off mind you. Maybe call it Funday or something like that.

greedygoblin

greedygoblin wrote: »

That would break up the week nicely. It'd have to be a day off mind you. Maybe call it Funday or something like that.

I'd prefer a three day working week with a four day weekend!

I used to work a shift that had three 12 hour days and then four days off, Brilliant!

Capt'n Midnight

Scottish hill farmers ?

They are self employed so they can just start working an hour earlier or later as the case may be, it's not like they'd be able to nip down to a bank or shop during their lunch break anyhow what with being out in the styx and all

other than that they just need to get a PVR so they can watch the news an hour later

dxhound2005

I don't see why we have to match the UK. Countries that border each other and even separate parts of bigger countries operate on different time zones.

Harry Palmr

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I don't see why we have to match the UK. Countries that border each other and even separate parts of bigger countries operate on different time zones.

Match of the Day at what time then? :mad:

Sunnyisland

Hang on a minute here the Goverment are winding us up, must think were all tics,have to go back in a sec...

dxhound2005

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I don't see why we have to match the UK. Countries that border each other and even separate parts of bigger countries operate on different time zones.

Strictly speaking France & Spain should be on the same timezone as the UK because of their geographic location but chose to stay on the same timezone as Germany.

Harry Palmr

Portugal decided to break with CET as it clearly made no sense.

Sunnyisland

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Portugal decided to break with CET as it clearly made no sense.

It's great craic driving from one to the other and losing or gaining an hour by crossing the border, it can be very handy.

dxhound2005

Deleted User wrote: »

Strictly speaking France & Spain should be on the same timezone as the UK because of their geographic location but chose to stay on the same timezone as Germany.

The Canaries are one hour different from mainland Spain.