BST to GMT

What a rubbish argument. Changing the time by an hour doesn't change the number of hours we have in darkness.

Why can't we just put the clocks forward an hour every day, thus giving us an extra hours sunlight?

Well (Cilla accent) Surprise Surprise.....i'm sure ive got some operation i need

Can i ask , i know its gone off topic, but does everyone find it hard to notice if someone is joking around?

Since the time change has happened twice a year continuously for the past thirty-five years I'm somewhat confused that people get surprised by it or struggle to cope with the concept, or worse confuse the ending of BST with the end of summer.

Summer gives way to autumn in September. British Summer Time gives way to GMT and not British Winter Time.

It may come as a shock to some broadcasters, especially in radio that there are actually four seasons in a year and that between summer and winter there is a thing called autumn, and then after winter spring rudely forces its way in before summer.

Equally someone needs to break it to the poor dears that the sun is not switched-on early in the year and left on continuously until winter spoils the party in October, or would that leave them stranded without the inane "well, where is summer - I blame the weather forecaster" comment that blights so much broadcasting.

Seasons happen, our position relative to the sun changes. We get rain and snow as well as sunshine. It's best if we try to get over it and worry about things that we can change.

Rob.

Another argument I suppose is the inconvenience of changing the clocks back/foward every six months.

Why not leave them be and not turn them back? Road accidents do increase when the clocks go back, sad but true. If you didn't turn them back, around Dec/Jan (when days are at their shortest) you would only have one rush-hour in the dark rather than two.

People always moan when the clocks go back , not when they go foward . So generally people miss the extra hour of light in the evenings not mornings I feel.

I do agree about broadcasters forgetting about autumn. I always hear them say at this time of year: "Now winter is here...". Winter is not here until the end of December Autumn lasts three months, just like summer, winter and spring do

Actually they are moaning about it down in Australia as we speak!

Really it's time for the UK to go onto BST during Winter, with BST+1 used during the Summer.

The Scotland argument is an important one but in all honesty I don't see why it couldn't go on its own timezone.

TV schedules wouldn't be an issue really. Not sure about how Channels 4 and 5 would work - although Scottish optouts wouldn't be difficult. BBC and STV could easily run their own schedule, although there could be an issue with Emmerdale/Corrie going out in Scotland before everywhere else - they could drop back a week, or show them at 8/8.30 instead of 7/7.30 and localise early evening progs.

you really are a muppet.

Thanks. So are you.

Anyway, quite what would be an issue with it I am not sure. This would allow most of the UK to operate on BST/BST+1, where most efficent use of daylight hours would take place.

Meanwhile Scotland could stay on GMT/BST all year.

there would be NO change on the BBC scotland as there dump programmes all over the place, even showing them ealier than england, you never know where a programme will end up.,

so why coundn't ITV do that?

I personally cannot see Scotland changing time zones, or the whole of the Uk for that fact. It gives us something to moan about each year.

why not change London's timezone on it's own then James? You can't just change a random part of the country to another time zone

Because it would cause chaos.

I agree that BST would be a better system, and then those parts of the country that find that things are too dark at certain times of the day will just have to do whatever they have to do at diffrent times of the day.

For example the children of Aberdeen could go to school at 8am and finish at 2 and the working hours would be similarly matched to daylight hours