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B S T - Why Are We Waiting
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Much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere is changing to Summertime this weekend.
But we are stuck in the benighted GMT for another fortnight.
Even if you accept that we need GMT in the core of the winter (I don't accept that, but can see that others do), the overall period of 'winter time' is far too long - especially at the Spring end.
It's already light well before 6am, even moving the hour would only delay daylight until about 6:50am and we could have an extra (useful) hour of daylight in the early evening - light until 7:40pm or thereabouts.
Instead we are wasting daylight when any sensible person is either asleep or moving on autopilot to get to work.
But we are stuck in the benighted GMT for another fortnight.
Even if you accept that we need GMT in the core of the winter (I don't accept that, but can see that others do), the overall period of 'winter time' is far too long - especially at the Spring end.
It's already light well before 6am, even moving the hour would only delay daylight until about 6:50am and we could have an extra (useful) hour of daylight in the early evening - light until 7:40pm or thereabouts.
Instead we are wasting daylight when any sensible person is either asleep or moving on autopilot to get to work.
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I can only repeat what I said earlier: the days get longer ;and shorter) of their own accord. If you are an early bird you'll get the light mornings. Not everyone gets what they want but lighter evenings and darker mornings occur the further north and west you go: so it's a trade off. What will suit one area won't necessarily suit another.
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