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2 hours next year!
Just heard on sky news that the government are trying to bring in SDST or something like that
And they said in winter clocks would go forward again an hour??
Well the kids and the dog already aren't impressed this morning... love to see how that would work!:laughing:
Blackhorse
29-03-2010, 07:03 AM
OK BUT please let them do it on a friday after lunch...so that is is getting 5 o'clock quicker...rather than taking it off our short short weekends!!! :laughing:
TheBTeam
29-03-2010, 07:03 AM
Just read this up on a google search, all makes perfect sense, except kids still have to get up for school in the morning, so going to bed later to enjoy the longer evenings is not an option!
It says about pensioners being afraid of being out in the dark, well the majority dont work so arent constricted by a normal day, so go out earlier and would still be tired and want to go home scared of the drunks and others that are loitering around to cause trouble later at night still!
And a lot of people now do not work a conventional day anyway, we all get up at differing times, but they reckon it will save energy bills as we would have the light on less.
I am tired losing an hour out of the precious weekend, let alone the effects of losing two!
Mollymop
29-03-2010, 07:12 AM
Oh I hope they just leave it as it is:panic: :rolleyes:
angeldelight
29-03-2010, 07:23 AM
Yes I read this a few weeks ago
Even talk about doing a 3 year trial - imagine that we could get used to it then they say it dont work so we could be back to square one again :laughing:
Imagine it getting dark at 11pm the kids would never go to sleep ha ha
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257168/Britains-clocks-forward-TWO-hours-giving-11pm-sunsets-boost-economy.html
Angel xxx
Blackhorse
29-03-2010, 07:26 AM
but in summer it is already light till 11 anyways? and light again from 3am??
I think I am missing the point....
So this would take us in line with the rest of Europe? Having just got back from 3 years in Gib, I don't mind!!
singlewiththree
29-03-2010, 07:45 AM
The clocks changing this time has done me a favour the children actually slept in until 8am this morning :clapping: I don't mind as long as they keep one continuous time and stop all this silly changing around
Pudding Girl
29-03-2010, 07:59 AM
Did it not already have a trial in the 60s or 70s though and it obviously didn't work too well or we'd still be doing it?
angeldelight
29-03-2010, 08:01 AM
Did it not already have a trial in the 60s or 70s though and it obviously didn't work too well or we'd still be doing it?
Now how would we remember or know about anything that far back
:laughing: :laughing:
Angel xx
Playmate
29-03-2010, 08:07 AM
Did it not already have a trial in the 60s or 70s though and it obviously didn't work too well or we'd still be doing it?
No, I think in the early 70's they tried not changing the clocks at all (I hate to say I do remember :blush: ) and it didn't work, can't remember why though.
angeldelight
29-03-2010, 08:08 AM
No, I think in the early 70's they tried not changing the clocks at all (I hate to say I do remember :blush: ) and it didn't work, can't remember why though.
Did they really I never knew this - me being young I suppose :laughing:
Angel xx
well... I wasn't born til '73......
Playmate
29-03-2010, 08:26 AM
Did they really I never knew this - me being young I suppose :laughing:
Angel xx
Ha ha :laughing: well according to my kids I remember the war :eek: so the 70's seem like yesterday :laughing:
wendywu
29-03-2010, 08:28 AM
Would that make us the same as Europe then? :rolleyes:
angeldelight
29-03-2010, 08:28 AM
Ha ha :laughing: well according to my kids I remember the war :eek: so the 70's seem like yesterday :laughing:
Now that is funny :laughing:
My hubby had his appendix out in the early 80s and my son to this day says he always thought it was something that happened to him in the war :laughing: :laughing:
Angel xxx
Playmate
29-03-2010, 09:25 AM
Now that is funny :laughing:
My hubby had his appendix out in the early 80s and my son to this day says he always thought it was something that happened to him in the war :laughing: :laughing:
Angel xxx
Kids :rolleyes:
Oh and my husband is apparently a cave man :laughing:
jelly15
29-03-2010, 09:39 AM
QWent to a birthday party Saturday eveving and got in at 4.30am BST (3.30am GMT). It was bad enought losing the hour when I came in so late but if it had been 2 hours:eek: .
it says for us northerners that sunrise wont be til 10am :eek: :panic: NO WAY!!!!!!
Minstrel
29-03-2010, 09:58 AM
it says for us northerners that sunrise wont be til 10am :eek: :panic: NO WAY!!!!!!
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
LOOPYLISA
29-03-2010, 10:04 AM
it says for us northerners that sunrise wont be til 10am :eek: :panic: NO WAY!!!!!!
Great excuse to stay in bed :jump for joy:
Spangles
29-03-2010, 10:13 AM
Can't see that happening, what about the people up north who won't have sunrise until 10am! That doesn't make any sense at all! Do people only care about us southerners being safer and healthier?
I would be so depressed if I didn't get daylight until mid-morning! Bonkers! (That's my new word at the moment, bonkers!!)
TheBTeam
29-03-2010, 12:06 PM
They were also talking about only doing it in Southern Britain, imagine some of you could be in a completely different time zone to us!
PixiePetal
29-03-2010, 12:16 PM
One hour is bad enough, DH went off to milk the cows on Sunday morning and as usual when the clocks change, the cows gave him a look as if to say 'what time do you call this?!'
venus89
29-03-2010, 12:20 PM
OK BUT please let them do it on a friday after lunch...so that is is getting 5 o'clock quicker...rather than taking it off our short short weekends!!! :laughing:
YES YES YES - why on Earth don't they do that? Nobody would complain....
caz3007
29-03-2010, 12:23 PM
They were also talking about only doing it in Southern Britain, imagine some of you could be in a completely different time zone to us!
So when us Southerners ring some call centre which are often in the North, we wont get a reply at 9am cos you lot will still be in bed :) :) :)
little chickee
29-03-2010, 12:23 PM
if they do that it would mean no daylight until nearly midday in Scotland!
How can that be right?
if they do that it would mean no daylight until nearly midday in Scotland!
How can that be right?
same here in newcastle :panic:
they did say scotland would have a different time zone :panic:
LOOPYLISA
29-03-2010, 12:34 PM
So when us Southerners ring some call centre which are often in the North, we wont get a reply at 9am cos you lot will still be in bed :) :) :)
:clapping: :D
venus89
29-03-2010, 12:38 PM
So when us Southerners ring some call centre which are often in the North, we wont get a reply at 9am cos you lot will still be in bed :) :) :)
All the :censored: ones I ring seem to be abroad
Rubybubbles
29-03-2010, 12:45 PM
I am just confused all the time anyway :panic:
Alibali
29-03-2010, 12:54 PM
same here in newcastle :panic:
they did say scotland would have a different time zone :panic:
Now that's just plain silly!!! If it's supposed to attract tourism and increase the economy how will it help if Scotland have a different time zone?!
I hate getting out of bed in the dark and I like it dark in the evenings to cosy on down. Why is it that everything these days is all down to economy:panic: