Timely Reminder For All The Brits On Here

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  1. Holly Saunders

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    Just to jog your memories that the clocks go back on saturday night/sunday morning night... means that sunset on Sunday night will be around 4.50pm. !!

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    Timely reminder for all Germans on here:

    There'll be another totally superflous time change on Sunday night setting the clock back by one hour and giving you an extra one, that one "stolen" from you in March. Enjoy the long holiday and try to do something really useful with that additional hour.

    Just read today that the EU project initiated by JC Junker and based on a Europe-wide survey, which I also took part in, is likely to be abandoned forever because, again, no agreement can be reached among member states. Why was it possible to introduce it then, I wonder? Why was agreement possible back then but not now? It's a nightmare. I'll vote for any party that promises Gexit.
     
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    Timely reminder for all Americans on here, except @Frank Sanoica :

    Nothing changes until Sunday, November 3.

    I thought all the countries changed at the same time. Must be really confusing for international business travellers.
     
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    I just got told elsewhere by a friend that the USA used to change on the same date as the UK until about 12 years ago.. ..this is what she wrote...

    ''We used to change the time back in October but it was pushed into November so children would have a little more daylight on Halloween.

    It was included in the Energy Policy Act signed by President George W. Bush in 2005 and became effective in 2007.

    Clocks were set back one hour on the first Sunday in November (November 4, 2007), rather than on the last Sunday of October (October 28, 2007). This had the net effect of slightly lengthening the duration of daylight saving time.''

     
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    Australia has had D/S for decades. Like Thomas says it is rather superfluous as we already have sufficient hours of daylite. Still politicians get these ideas and stick hard to them. Probably think it may win them votes. Surely you Brits dont need D/S.. not with long twiltes. Does Germany also have long twilites?
     
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    We've had it for over 100 years..apparently it first started in 1916 here altho' it was first proposed in the late 1890's... you're right we absolutely don't need DST... but every year when petitions get signed for it to be stopped we're given the same old excuse about farmers in the far north of Scotland having to get up in the dark to milk dairy cows,and 6 random children somewhere in the far north having to go to school in the dark... !! it's all nonsense really...
     
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    Holly

    When we go back to GMT its lighter in the morning and not dark in Scotland at 10 am

    If we kept like we did in the 60s under Wilson for a couple of years BST then it would be dark around 3pm .
     
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    ... so what difference really does that make to when it gets dark at 4pm? ..as it does !!
     
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    The older I get, the more annoying the time change is. First day, I'm fine. Next three days, I'm sleepy. It takes a full week before I feel normal again.
     
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    I've been kinda out of sorts all day today since putting the clocks back at 2am this morning...
     
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    Sorry made a cock up that 3pm should have said 5 pm.
     
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    No prob...you have just set your words ahead two hours! ;)
     
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    We used to set our clocks back the last weekend in October, but now we change time the first weekend in November, Why is that, beats me :rolleyes:o_O. Maybe because the Americans told us too. :p:p:p.
     
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    Or for the same reason as in the US: to give kids more daylight on Halloween?
     
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