The government is considering moving the UK's clocks forward by an hour for a three-year trial period.
Ministers are writing to counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to seek a UK-wide consensus on a trial.
It would see the UK adopt Central European Time, with BST plus one hour in summer and GMT plus one in winter.
BBC News - UK clocks change trial being considered
Sorry, I'f we are rUK - why should we give a flying ck what those happy people think if things turn out their way in September? Even more why should they have any say? That said:
Plans to change UK time to improve tourism have been floated but have prompted objections in Scotland. So why couldn't Scotland and the rest of the UK have different time zones? And what are the other logistical issues?
Moving the UK's clocks forward has always been controversial. Now the government's new tourism strategy, due out in the next few weeks, is expected to suggest just that.
It would see British Summer Time (BST) maintained during the winter months and "double summertime" applied during summer months, putting the UK one hour ahead of GMT during winter and two hours ahead during summer. It would see clocks move forward by an hour from GMT in the winter and a further hour in the summer, to match Central European Time, meaning lighter nights but darker mornings.
MP Rebecca Harris is championing such changes in the Daylight Saving Bill in Parliament. She says the move would allow an extra 235 hours of daylight after work every year and deliver benefits including 100 fewer deaths from road crashes annually.
It would also purportedly save ?200m a year for the NHS because of fewer accidents, boost British tourism revenue by ?3.5bn and reduce carbon dioxide emissions through people leaving lights and heating off, it is claimed.
BBC News - Could the UK work with two different time zones?
So that change would save money, lives and make more money from tourism. It would make sense, so is bound to fail.... as before if rUK wants to move the timezones around, save money, make money, save lives why should those who are not rUK have a say in it anyway.
Back to my take on this. Currently in winter we have darkness at the start and end of the working day, when kids are going to school, when people are travelling to work, doesn't it make sense to have darkness during that travelling at only one end of the day?
Too sensible eh.
Ministers are writing to counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to seek a UK-wide consensus on a trial.
It would see the UK adopt Central European Time, with BST plus one hour in summer and GMT plus one in winter.
BBC News - UK clocks change trial being considered
But a spokeswoman for the Scottish government said its "established position" was that there was "no case for a change to existing arrangements".
Plans to change UK time to improve tourism have been floated but have prompted objections in Scotland. So why couldn't Scotland and the rest of the UK have different time zones? And what are the other logistical issues?
Moving the UK's clocks forward has always been controversial. Now the government's new tourism strategy, due out in the next few weeks, is expected to suggest just that.
It would see British Summer Time (BST) maintained during the winter months and "double summertime" applied during summer months, putting the UK one hour ahead of GMT during winter and two hours ahead during summer. It would see clocks move forward by an hour from GMT in the winter and a further hour in the summer, to match Central European Time, meaning lighter nights but darker mornings.
MP Rebecca Harris is championing such changes in the Daylight Saving Bill in Parliament. She says the move would allow an extra 235 hours of daylight after work every year and deliver benefits including 100 fewer deaths from road crashes annually.
It would also purportedly save ?200m a year for the NHS because of fewer accidents, boost British tourism revenue by ?3.5bn and reduce carbon dioxide emissions through people leaving lights and heating off, it is claimed.
BBC News - Could the UK work with two different time zones?
So that change would save money, lives and make more money from tourism. It would make sense, so is bound to fail.... as before if rUK wants to move the timezones around, save money, make money, save lives why should those who are not rUK have a say in it anyway.
Back to my take on this. Currently in winter we have darkness at the start and end of the working day, when kids are going to school, when people are travelling to work, doesn't it make sense to have darkness during that travelling at only one end of the day?
Too sensible eh.
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Why wouldn't people who work all day in artificial light have some chance of daylight at the end of the working day in winter? As above going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark is sh*t in winter, costs money and lives.
that started today, and it made a change to actually see daylight at 5:30 after all these months of cking darkness. Who needs 3 or 4 hours of daylight before they wake in summer, what a waste, sooner have daylight at the end of the day.
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