As We Experience Out First 'Dark' Night...

[Tilly2]

...what do you think of this idea?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mznrv3jvmo

[Prudie]

I think its trendy thicko rubbish. That means in North Scotland in the summer it won't get dark until nearly midnight and in the Winter it won't get light until nealy 10 am.

[Tilly2]

So people will drive to work in the dark rather than driving home in the dark?

I can't get my head around how it will work to our benefit.

[Arksided]

I see no logic in it at all, ok BST (neither that) as I've being brought up knowing it... but live in the darkness anyway.

[ToraToraTora]

There's a reason it's been like it has for over a century. It ain't broke don't fix it.

[Arksided]

but TTT that's blastpheming how very dare you! This new generation knows what's best for us all.

[jourdain2]

'If it ain't broke, don't fix it!'

We are all usedto the current system.

It is alsoused inEurope.

Leave well alone.

[Tilly2]

Arky, are you a vampire?

[Smowball]

All I know is that I absolute HATED it getting dark today at about 5.15pm, and it will slowly get earlier in the nxt few weeks. I'm one of those people, who will be in the garden/outside until it's dark if I can. And when it's like this it makes for such a long long evening/night.

Thats why the depression/suidicide  rates rocket at this time of year. 😞

[Arksided]

Tilly Ark., are you a vampire?

Yes just a little fun, my own guise is a vampire Angle sat behind a desk.  then the stay here, back injured, next on haloween is the Vampire in puppet form.

[Arksided]

* Angel...

[Old_Geezer]

Not a lot.

 

GMT is the nearest, more or less, we can get to "real time" for a whole nation. If it is unsuitable then that implies our culture regarding when we rise & retire each day needs revising. Not the hour shown on the clock.

 

BST giving us lighter evenings in summer, is fine, because we ain't paying for it with dark mornings because of the greater number of daylight hours that time of year.

 

IMO the chances are we could be better off advancing the hour even further/more often during the summer period as our normal rise time gets further and further away from sunrise as summer gets going. This wastes daylight which could be more usefully moved to the evening.

[Hazlinny]

Last statement not exactly true, Smow.

As spring brings blooming flowers and longer, brighter days, Adam Kaplin’s thoughts turn to darker subjects. The Johns Hopkins assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences focuses on depression and suicide.

He knows that, contrary to popular belief, suicide rates spike in the light of spring, not the darkness of winter.

“In April, May and June, the suicide rate goes up and is the highest,” Kaplin says. Those numbers can be two to three times higher than in December, when suicide rates are the lowest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ellipsis]

Greenwich Mean Time - the clue is in the name ...

[Smowball]

Hazlinny - I have been misinformed then, apologies. 
I do know from personal experience that I certain feel much lower mood wise when it is dark early.

[Hazlinny]

No problem, Smow.  It was just that I once made an inccorrect statement and ABers landed on me like a ton of bricks 😊

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps folk are too depressed to do anything in the dark months, but then decide they don't want to go through that again as they start to see the light.

Moral, use a SAD light ?

[Smowball]

No probs lol.

OG, Ive never used one but have heard of them. Have you used one?

[New Judge]

Same thing every year.

Doesn't surprise me with MPs. They think they can control the climate. They think they can create more "daylight hours". All they need to do now is to say they can control the tides.  

[douglas9401]

Some say it's the very mission statement of those Cnuts.

[Old_Geezer]

My woman used one a while back. I tried it for a few goes. While pleasant enough I don't think it worked miracles.