Why do we inflict daylight saving time on ourselves?

[gnvqsos]

The UK did have several time zones in the past and due to the railways spreading it was decided to make just one time-zone.

 

Jeffrey Archer? I think it was, tried to get it changed back but obviously failed.

 

Another snippet from QI..

 

If we were to abolish the railways,ot return them to regional ownership we could resume regional time zones.It would mahe sense to have the following

 

1.South of watford gap

2.Midlands up to Dronfield

3.Sheffield to Newcastle

4.The Borders and Central belt

5.Highlands and Islands

each region being able to select its own time zone

[LeMaquis]

Why so? It'd make getting-up in the morning (at one's usual time) much easier; and who wants/needs daylight after 2100hrs?

 

Who needs daylight before 5am? There are far more people out and about at 9pm than at 3am. Pubs and restaurants are open, public transport is running, etc. Who's out at 3am? Clubbers and burglars. And?

[HeadingNorth]

If we were to abolish the railways,ot return them to regional ownership we could resume regional time zones.

 

Not a chance. The railways were just the first thing that needed a consistent clock across the country; there are a million and one other such things now.

[HeadingNorth]

Spot on mate, its a form of social control.........

 

Unless and until people are smart enough to save their own energy, is is a sadly necessary one.

[gnvqsos]

Not a chance. The railways were just the first thing that needed a consistent clock across the country; there are a million and one other such things now.

 

The breakdown of the EU will precipitate a retreat to regionalism and de-globalisation;I predict Yorkshire wil soon be semi-autonomous.

[Rupert_Baehr]

The breakdown of the EU will precipitate a retreat to regionalism and de-globalisation;I predict Yorkshire wil soon be semi-autonomous.

 

No doubt the people in London (the people who send most of the money North) would be very pleased to see that.

 

UDI for The Peoples' Democratic Republic of South Yorkshire!

 

You wouldn't have to worry about the central government cutting back on regional grants - there wouldn't be any. Each region (including S Yorks) would be self-funding.

 

You could have a Yorkshire Health Service - funded locally, no outside intervention (or outside payments.)

 

Yorkshire education (funded from local taxes)

 

Yorkshire roads (repaired using money from local taxes - foreign money not welcome!)

 

Yorkshire Welfare - let the local people pay the local bill.

 

Yorkshire housing - set your own council housing expenditure.

 

Do you really think that would work?

 

Most of the money which pays for South Yorks comes from those plonkers in Lahnnun.

 

You could always tell them to 'get stuffed' and pay for it yourselves, but who would do the paying?

[MrSmith]

It'd make staying asleep until a reasonable time quite difficult, and lots of people are still doing things that benefit from light after 2100.

 

Yes but the sale of blackout curtains would save the economy.

[Jeffrey Shaw]

Who needs daylight before 5am? There are far more people out and about at 9pm than at 3am. Pubs and restaurants are open, public transport is running, etc. Who's out at 3am?

All irrelevant, as you well know.

 

When everyone walked everywhere (esp. children going to/from school) and when manufacturing was the mainstay of the UK's economy (e.g. when BST started, to assist the WW1 effort), it made sense. Now it doesn't; and the hassle involved twice-yearly outweighs any minimal benefits achieved.

 

Keep GMT permanently. Easy, see.

[esme]

...Keep GMT permanently. Easy, see.

 

gets my vote

 

we could set out clocks to pacific standard time or the time in Beijing and it wouldn't matter as long as the entire country had the same time, we'd all go to work at the same time of day it's just the clocks would be showing a different number to now

 

since the meridian goes through the country we may as well standardise on GMT rather than some arbitrary offset time

 

politicians want us to change to a timezone thats in step with europe to ease trade, but not everybody trades with europe and those that do can always change their operating hours, there's no need to change the clocks for the entire country just so some companies know what time it is in Europe, if you trade with a foreign company you should at least know what timezone they are in

 

and I see no point whatsoever in changing to BST and back again, it just causes disruption

[stephenr]

How about this for a revolutionary idea........stop moaning about it and just live with it.