EU want to do away with long summer evenings

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 25-03-2018 11:58AM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

How about abandoning summer time AND timezones? Just have the same global 24 hour time apply to the whole planet.
Meaning if it's 12 o'clock in Dublin, it's 12 o'clock everywhere on the planet. And there will be no more date divide!
A clock just displays numbers. It will take some getting used to to get up at 3 am and have lunch at 8am, but what does it matter? You'll get used to telling your kids "remember, be home at 1am on the dot!"
Everyone will decide when to start work and if you have to arrange a remote meeting between 4 different time zones, things will be so much easier.
I am sure this could save billions!

Not sure billions are dying in the first place... pretty sure we'd notice

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25-03-2018 11:58AM

We should go to summer time at the start of march not the end of it. Crazy having dark evenings for so long. The US ends winter time on the 2nd sunday in march.

Skedaddle · 25-03-2018 12:01PM

Have I just wandered into the Daily Express forum?

Oh FFS .. a group of elected parliamentarians have asked the Commission to research it.

Nobody's stealing our time or something nor are they mandarins.

somefeen · 25-03-2018 12:08PM

In Scotland the sun can be out until around 1am in mid summer. I loved it. In the Shetlands the sun might as well not go down at all.

Blew my mind that I didn't have to THAT far to see a noticeable difference in daylight hours.

I forget what my point was. Oh yeah, I agree over reaching by the EU.

suicide_circus · 25-03-2018 12:16PM

Time is the fire in which we burn

Pwindedd · 25-03-2018 12:30PM

It suits some people and not others. I like the brighter evenings. Means I can take my dog to the park after work. (Longer opening hours in summer). I'm justifying laying in bed right now after midday cos my body thinks it's actually only half 11.

So if the EU change it and Britain is out of EU (and they rertain DST) will we go Dublin 12pm London 1pm and the next time zone say Paris 1pm. Crazy talk.

pitifulgod · 25-03-2018 12:37PM

Skedaddle wrote: »

Have I just wandered into the Daily Express forum?

Oh FFS .. a group of elected parliamentarians have asked the Commission to research it.

Nobody's stealing our time or something nor are they mandarins.

It would also most likely be an opt-in scenario to go ahead with it. Think most people I work with would tend to favour it.

facehugger99 · 25-03-2018 12:44PM

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

Totally agree. I couldn’t care less about it being dark in the morning. Plenty of high vis and streetlights and cars have good lights. Evening time I would love a bit more light when you could actually see it after work

Exactly - it's a waste of daylight. Other than a tiny percentage of the population, most people will now be asleep for the extra hour of brightness we'll get at 3am if this proposal goes through.

OldMrBrennan83 · 25-03-2018 12:46PM

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facehugger99 · 25-03-2018 12:47PM

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I'd wager that far less are in bed at 10pm than are up at 3am.

OldMrBrennan83 · 25-03-2018 12:49PM

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facehugger99 · 25-03-2018 12:52PM

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Each to their own, but I prefer a bit of brightness in the evenings to go out and about.

no.8 · 25-03-2018 12:52PM

somefeen wrote:

In Scotland the sun can be out until around 1am in mid summer. I loved it. In the Shetlands the sun might as well not go down at all.

I love the long evenings as well but that's not true wrt the Shetland Islands. They are not far enough north to have 24hr sunlight, maybe 18/19hrs. Still impressive if they have round the clock daylight in mid summer.

AttentionBebe · 25-03-2018 12:54PM

Daylight savings: Ruining parents lives twice a year since eighteen dickety two for no f*cking reason

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 25-03-2018 01:00PM

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A lot of people that work are in bed before 10pm too though.[/quote]
Not unless they start work at about 6 or 7am!

OldMrBrennan83 · 25-03-2018 01:05PM

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BorneTobyWilde · 25-03-2018 01:08PM

Made sense years ago when there was good reason. Makes sense now to change it a little.
Try to maintain light between 8am and 10pm in best possible way I say.
Clocks could have went forward a month ago for example. The sacred dates the clocks move have no place today.
In Oct makes no sense to put clocks back, that could happen much later like end of Nov.

listermint · 25-03-2018 01:09PM

This is one of those threads were someone read something on Facebook isn't it.

Oh joy....

Mr.Wemmick · 25-03-2018 01:10PM

We should just stay with the Summer time hours and just get use to the dark in Winter. Electricity works just fine.

Which ever way, stop messing with time. I am fed up with losing an hour every Spring.. just pick a time and stick to it, give us all some peace and consistency.

OldMrBrennan83 · 25-03-2018 01:12PM

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SCOOP 64 · 25-03-2018 01:16PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

That.
If anything this is a great example of the EU listening to what people want.
But these days it's fashionable to scream abuse about the EU, "blah blah, failed, blah blah German Overlords blah blah tinfoil hat". These people are just brainlessly parroting hate phrases they have learnt from Russian Twitter bots.
If you look at the history of Europe over the last 2000 years, there has never been a period of peace and prosperity like the last 70 years or so.
But it's much more fun for the brainless and unemployed classes to stand there and shout abuse about something they don't understand.

Unbelievable the posts that get thanks on here.

dr.fuzzenstein · 25-03-2018 01:21PM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Not sure billions are dying in the first place... pretty sure we'd notice !

My plan is foolproof!
If we can eliminate timezones, yawning and sneezing, we can save trillions in lost productivity!
Once I perfect my doomsday device, things will look very different.

The Backwards Man · 25-03-2018 01:26PM

Aye, you always see it, every year, oh I love the extra daylight in the evenings, please don't take it away big bad EU. Then you go looking for them to foot a wheen of turf or build a lock of bales and where are they? Lying in watching Game of Thrones or the Eurovision.

Get rid of it ta fcuk!

iguana · 25-03-2018 01:28PM

As the parent of a small child I like the change, it always works out for me as my son's sleep is greatly affected by the season and he finds it hard to stay asleep when the sun rises. I have blackout blinds and thick curtains but they don't do an adequate job of keeping out all cracks of light. So it's great to have a delayed dawn. In winter it works out well as it's much easier to rouse him. Most parents I know have the same experience and generally welcome the extra sleep in summer and easier mornings in winter.

Capt'n Midnight · 25-03-2018 01:31PM

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It beats changing it back 300 years when you visit an Orange Lodge.

The Backwards Man · 25-03-2018 01:31PM

If the wains were worked hard enough during the day there'd be no bother with them rising too early in the morning.

Capt'n Midnight · 25-03-2018 01:37PM

Phoebas wrote: »

I guess it depends on the way you look at it.

I view UTC as our 'standard' time, and IST as the 'adjusted' time.

There's your opinion and then there's the STANDARD TIME ACT, 1968 and STANDARD TIME (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1971 :P

I for one am proud to live in a different time zone to the neighbours.

SCOOP 64 · 25-03-2018 01:38PM

Its a pain in the arse setting all the clocks too isn't it ,especially the ones in the car.

force eleven · 25-03-2018 01:39PM

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

Did you read the article?
The EU have been petitioned by over 70000 people re the change and is setting up a group to study the potential impact of the change.

How dare they listen to people the bastards.

More EU crap. Screw it. I'm just waiting for the inevitable tax harmonisation. The final nail in our sham sovereignty. Leo will agree straightaway, he is as soft as butter.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 25-03-2018 02:23PM

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With traffic a lot of people need to be up well before that to make it in for half 8 or 9.

And even if you're not bedding until 11 or later, you don't just come in the door and lie straight down.[/quote]

I've never meet anyone who went to bed at 10pm in prepetation to be in work for 8.30am the next morning.

EU want to do away with long summer evenings

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