I seem to remember some interference with this when I was a school girl. My mother thought she'd compensate for us having to walk to school at 8.15am in the pitch black by force feeding us tomatoes on toast and double Haliborange tablets before we set off......
You are right, Nellie. It was done between 1968 and 1971. I remember it still being dark at 8.30 in 1970, my last year of primary school.
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I wonder if there was more than one attempt to change it then, I left school after my A levels in 1970 yet my memory of the dark mornings was a few years earlier.
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I have absolutely no recollection of that at all! If it was 68-71 I should be able to remember it but I don't. How strange!
The more I read about this proposal the more confused I am about what it is they are suggesting. I start off thinking they are talking about staying at wintertime ie GMT for us (and a couple of others) then I think they mean to stay at summertime, then I end up totally lost as to what they are on about. Maybe those writing the articles don't know either.
I've taken it that we'd keep GMT all year around which would make sense as was always the time standard before they started messing about with clocks going backwards and forwards
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I've taken it that we'd keep GMT all year around which would make sense as was always the time standard before they started messing about with clocks going backwards and forwards
Only one thing is now clear to me - EU set to stop countries turning clocks back and forwards for daylight ... After that I'm fuddled
In response to the European Parliament resolution, the Commission has therefore committed to assess the two main policy alternatives available to ensure such a harmonised regime, which are:
Keeping the current EU summertime arrangements as set out in Directive 2000/84/EC or Discontinuing the current bi-annual time changes for all Member States and prohibiting periodic switches; again this would not affect the choice of time zone, and it would ultimately remain each Member State's decision whether to go for permanent summer or wintertime (or a different time).
There was a time when I would have supported your proposal, but now I'm not so sure. Take last night - bed & out for the count by midnight, up & drinking tea at 2:30 ish, bed around 4, up at 5:45, out the feed 27's cats an hour later. I think nap time is approaching.
Sadly, alcohol no longer agrees with me. It was a painful divorce from my beloved G&T but sometimes you just have to bite the bullet & admit you have to part ways. I'm liable to keel over if I don't get a nap, however brief
They have wanted to do it here for a long time. It doesn't make much difference TBH as the latest it gets properly dark is between 8-9pm at a certain period of the year, we don't get the sitting out in the light in the evening. It happens quickly, too, like a light being turned off, took us a while to get used to it.
It happens quickly, too, like a light being turned off, took us a while to get used to it.
I noticed that too, I think it's down to being further South than here. The sun is higher in the sky during the day but at sunset dips more vertically rather than at an angle, so it's a sudden darkness rather than a gradual one we're used to.