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Posted: 06.03.2019  ·  #1
https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/l…-eu-rules/

The EU committee has proposed to stop the practice of winter and summer time.
While this has to be agreed by EU parliament , commission and others, this will be a few years away.
Which would folks prefer?
Earlier winter mornings and shorter summer evenings or the vica verus?
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Posted: 06.03.2019  ·  #2
I remember


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Posted: 06.03.2019  ·  #3
Ok, let me see if I can get this right. If by the clocks staying forward all through the winter, we get an extra hour of light in the evening. That would suit me, to stay on summer time. I hate when the clocks go back.


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Posted: 06.03.2019  ·  #4
Then the time changes at two in the morning.

What a nuisance getting up in the early hours staggering about the house in the gloom putting them forward and back.


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Ok, let me see if I can get this right. If by the clocks staying forward all through the winter, we get an extra hour of light in the evening. That would suit me, to stay on summer time. I hate when the clocks go back.


Summer time gives an extra hour of daylight in the evening.
Winter time gives an extra hour of daylight in the morning.
Which is standard time?


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Posted: 06.03.2019  ·  #6
Technically UTC is standard time - Universal Coordinated Time. Our winter time happens to match UTC, our summer time is UTC +1. If we chose to adopt summer time all year round, we will always be UTC +1.


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Posted: 07.03.2019  ·  #7
While I wouldn't mind shorter summer evenings (since they're very, very long anyways). Early mornings in the winter mean even shorter evenings in the winter too... and I much prefer having at least some day light after work than in the morning...

Makes sense? Probably not, but it does in my head :P


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Posted: 07.03.2019  ·  #8
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While I wouldn't mind shorter summer evenings (since they're very, very long anyways). Early mornings in the winter mean even shorter evenings in the winter too... and I much prefer having at least some day light after work than in the morning...

Makes sense? Probably not, but it does in my head :P


and i agree with you :lol:


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Posted: 07.03.2019  ·  #9
Was it something to do with children going to school, so that it wasn’t dark for them?


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Posted: 07.03.2019  ·  #10
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Was it something to do with children going to school, so that it wasn’t dark for them?


I would say so. But that was back in a time when children often made their own way to school.


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Posted: 07.03.2019  ·  #11
Anyone remember getting the fluorescent armbands so you could be seen walking to school


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Posted: 07.03.2019  ·  #12
I was thinking kids get dropped to school by a parent on their way to work, but nowadays there is the “walking bus” i think the idea is to keep kids healthier.


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Posted: 07.03.2019  ·  #13
The man who pressed for a change in clock time was a builder William Willett to get more done for the 1914 /18 war effort and it also suited farmers as they had more light to work in the evening and no artificial light . In the second world war there was double summer time giving light to midnight . The reason given for not having all the year round ,was that the children going to school in Scotland would have to go and return in the dark and it was deemed safer to go in daylight .


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Posted: 27.03.2019  ·  #15
CAn you imaging the confusion that this could bring if for example Belgium goes -1, France +1 and Spain 0, you would be forever changing the clocks :lol:


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Posted: 27.03.2019  ·  #16
Great fun if you were a travelling clock sales person 😁😅


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Posted: 28.03.2019  ·  #17
What if we ended up with two time zones on this island?


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Posted: 28.03.2019  ·  #18
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What if we ended up with two time zones on this island?


It'd really cut journey times - Dublin to Belfast in 30 minutes!


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Posted: 28.03.2019  ·  #19
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What if we ended up with two time zones on this island?


It'd really cut journey times - Dublin to Belfast in 30 minutes!


Ah, but it is 2.5 hours coming back!!!!


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Posted: 28.03.2019  ·  #20
I prefer the longer daylight in the evenings myself.


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Posted: 28.03.2019  ·  #21
Some would say that ,there are so many laid back and retired people on this Island it wouldn't make a bit of difference. :o


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