Republic's time zone plan "ludicrous"

pickarooney wrote: »

What about when your UK clients call at 5.15 and you're already gone home whereas you used always be still at work?

If they're ringing you 15 minutes before you go home, it's not important. If it is important, they'll be aware that you're an hour ahead and ring at 16:15 instead.

Or, if UK clients are your company's bread-and-butter, you'll start at 10:00 and finish @ 18:30

I don't believe the world came to an end when we implemented metric speed limits down here which they still haven't got in the north.

Why does he care what happens down here anyway?

Strange to see that the UK, who are so anti-EU on most things, are keen to adopt European time. Has anyone checked this with Nigel Farage

How will our American FDI companies cope with being even another hour out of step with us? All those Google people calling head office in California will have to stay another hour at work to attend their conference calls.

Dont think it would be a good idea. People will only get confused.:D

bloodyhand wrote: »

Do what you want, Ulster is not your problem, you can change your clock by 12 hours for all I care, it's not like we often set foot down there. I say that as an Ulster Catholic.

Good man yourself. Feel free to stay there.

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Yes, but only if theres almost certainty that it can be used to get a petty one over on the unionists.

Who, in this case, want to stay united in the same time zone as the rest of Ireland...

There’s a few people here who should read what is in the Bill before posting and adding to the confusion. The proposal is to put the clocks on the same time as Central Europe. There will still be DST (putting the hour forward in summer and back in winter, as they do in Central European Time now).

If the earth was flat then one time zone would suffice. But it’s not, and the further west you go the later the sun rises. The US, one country, has 4 time zones (5 if you include Alaska). Russia has 10.

The UK and Ireland are a long way west of Central Europe and have no land border causing the kind of complications you can have in US states where a neighbouring town can have a 1-hour difference. To me it makes complete sense to have a separate zone. I never had much difficulty arranging phone calls with colleagues and customers in Europe. The US needs a bit more planning, and this would get worse if we change. The West Coast would be nine hours behind, longer than a typical working day, so there’s very little overlap during working hours for people who need to call or get quick e-mail responses.

This is being driven by Westminster, and they are a lot less affected than we are. On January 15th, sunrise in London is 07:58. This would become 08:58 if the change happens. On the same date, sunrise in Dublin is 08:31, which would be 09:31 if the change is made. Sunrise in Galway on that day would be 09:42. On the shortest day, Dec 21, it would be even worse.

I remember when they did the experiment with leaving the clocks on DST during the winter for a couple of years in the 70’s. Going to school in the pitch dark in the rain is a misery I was glad to see the back of when the trial was abandoned. The proposed change would have the same effect in winter.

Hazys wrote: »

Can we push the clocks back 10 years into the middle of the Celtic Tiger so we can all be rich again and ball out?

And when the recession and bailouts approaches again, just switch the clocks back 10 years again, creating a never ending wealth cycle...how you like dem apples Ms Merkel?





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would it not be better to go back 15 years and not vote for fianna fail????