Plan to bring UK clocks forward

[kuzkasate]

i love how this has turned into a debate lol.

anyway, i found some info on bbc news about how it would affect you or the place you live in:



A proposal to move the nation's clocks forward by one hour to so-called "double summertime" will be published this week. So what difference would it make to sunrise and sunset in towns and cities across the UK?

Prime Minister David Cameron has said any plans to give the UK brighter and longer evenings will only become a reality if it's clear that the country is behind it.

But support for the move, which would make mornings darker, may depend upon where people are.

If you live in London, then sunset would be at 2222 on 21 June, which is the longest day of the year. But in the winter solstice, on 21 December, it would not be fully light until sunrise at 0904.

It would be a very different experience if you lived in Thurso in the Scottish Highlands, where under "double summertime", the sun would not set until 2327 in mid-summer but it would not rise until 1003 in mid-winter, a long time after children had started school lessons.

So how would it affect you? Seven cities are mapped above, and below, there are 10 more cities around the UK with the new sunrise and sunset times on the longest and shortest days of the year.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12523164

[qaxzsw]

I'm all for this change! fingers crossed it happens

[Slowpoke]

Word of the proposal is spreading very quickly, seen it mentioned a lot on Facebook today and everyone was talking about this at work. Opinion seems extremely divided, however. I'm all for it personally.

[Jordy]

i love how this has turned into a debate lol.

anyway, i found some info on bbc news about how it would affect you or the place you live in:



A proposal to move the nation's clocks forward by one hour to so-called "double summertime" will be published this week. So what difference would it make to sunrise and sunset in towns and cities across the UK?

Prime Minister David Cameron has said any plans to give the UK brighter and longer evenings will only become a reality if it's clear that the country is behind it.

But support for the move, which would make mornings darker, may depend upon where people are.

If you live in London, then sunset would be at 2222 on 21 June, which is the longest day of the year. But in the winter solstice, on 21 December, it would not be fully light until sunrise at 0904.

It would be a very different experience if you lived in Thurso in the Scottish Highlands, where under "double summertime", the sun would not set until 2327 in mid-summer but it would not rise until 1003 in mid-winter, a long time after children had started school lessons.

So how would it affect you? Seven cities are mapped above, and below, there are 10 more cities around the UK with the new sunrise and sunset times on the longest and shortest days of the year.

Very informative thank-you. To conclude in the very North of Scotland, it seems that the new timezones would indeed be impractical (Although the current ones are rather impractical too). However let's not forget the population of Highlands is 220,000

Map showing the Highlands

This is 0.4% of the population of the UK, I don't think the timezone should be dictated by these. And no offence to anyone living in the highlands but you're not exactly the economic backbone either. They could simply change the times they got into school if they were worried about being hit by cars, such as going in an hour later.

[Neversoft]

Urgh, sunrise before 6am. If they go ahead with this I am going to have to sleep under the floorboards.

[Jordy]

Urgh, sunrise before 6am. If they go ahead with this I am going to have to sleep under the floorboards.

Well the sun will rise 1 hour later than it currently does. So it already rises before 5am

[Neversoft]

Well the sun will rise 1 hour later than it currently does. So it already rises before 5am

Oh yeah... that's why I hate summer mornings so much. I guess under the floorboards it is.

[Chippiewill]

Good luck in the winter when everyone will have darkness until 9AM because that's what would happen.

[alexxxxx]

Good luck in the winter when everyone will have darkness until 9AM because that's what would happen.

but stays lighter later which is a more productive part of the day.

[Moh]

but stays lighter later which is a more productive part of the day.

Not when the darkness in the morning makes you feel crap