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British Summer Time
« on: March 24, 2012, 07:42:04 pm »
Starts tonight folks. 1 hour less kip  :sad1:

Make sure you put your clocks forwards or you might be joining the F1 at around lap 40  :grin:

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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2012, 08:46:03 pm »
Thanks for reminding me.  :happy2:
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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2012, 08:49:02 pm »
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Cheers, Carl  :drinking:

I think that losing one hour's sleep tonight is well worth all the lighter evenings we'll be having for a bit. I do wish they would leave the clocks alone as 'British Summertime' 365/52.


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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2012, 08:54:29 pm »
There have been campaigns for it and I am in agreement.  :happy2:

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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2012, 09:56:22 pm »
Yup same here. Don't see the point in putting it forwards and backwards just leave as is.

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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2012, 10:06:00 pm »
It's more hassle than its worse! Must suck for guys working the night shifts or do they think they alow for the extra hour ?

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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2012, 10:16:36 pm »
It's more hassle than its worse! Must suck for guys working the night shifts or do they think they alow for the extra hour ?

Woohoo one hour less for me tonight.  :signLOL: 

Swings and roundabouts to be honest, we loose an hours shift tonight, but could end working the next clock change so end up doing the extra hour.. :sad1:

Automation is getting beter, hopefully tonight the Mainframe should so the clock change automatically  :pomppomp: so we don't have to shut it down and reload it all... :star: fingers crossed.
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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2012, 10:17:48 pm »
Why does it suck for the night shift workers? One hour less to work!

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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2012, 10:19:16 pm »
IIRC they did leave it one year and there was a bus crash in scotland and some kids died, some said it was because it was dark, so then they decided to keep the daylight saving, and it hasnt changed since
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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2012, 11:30:33 pm »

IIRC they did leave it one year and there was a bus crash in scotland and some kids died, some said it was because it was dark, so then they decided to keep the daylight saving, and it hasnt changed since


....A bus crashes and it being dark is to blame? - That's stupid  :stupid:

Do more fatal crashes happen during the hours of darkness than of daylight then?


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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2012, 11:34:09 pm »
Why does it suck for the night shift workers? One hour less to work!
Goes back in winter doesn't it, so just as your about to clock off and go home.....you have 1 hour left  :sick:

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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2012, 11:35:33 pm »
If you work both of them, it averages out fine.

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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2012, 11:46:23 pm »

IIRC they did leave it one year and there was a bus crash in scotland and some kids died, some said it was because it was dark, so then they decided to keep the daylight saving, and it hasnt changed since


....A bus crashes and it being dark is to blame? - That's stupid  :stupid:

Do more fatal crashes happen during the hours of darkness than of daylight then?

from memory yes, school kids killed, the reasons being if the clocks had changed then the driver would have seen them, will see what i can find to back this up

found this
A move to "permanent daylight saving time" (staying on summer hours all year with no time shifts) is sometimes advocated, and has in fact been implemented in some jurisdictions such as Iceland, Russia, and Belarus.[87] The United Kingdom stayed on daylight saving time from 1968 to 1971.[139] Advocates cite the same advantages as normal DST without the problems associated with the twice yearly time shifts. However, many remain unconvinced of the benefits, citing the same problems and the relatively late sunrises that year-round DST entails.[140]
"Permanent daylight saving time" or permanent summer time are perhaps misnomers, as the practice essentially becomes the "standard time" for the area. However, it can be considered to be a deviation from the internationally agreed timezone of the Coordinated Universal Time system.
Many jurisdictions such as Argentina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Sudan, Turkmenistan, and Tokelau can be considered to use a form of de facto permanent daylight saving time[citation needed] because they use time zones located to the east of the time zones they are geographically located in. Thus their local times are later than the time they would theoretically occur under a "pure" system, such as the nautical time system, giving the same effect as year-round DST.

although no mention of the reason for going back, will look some more
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Re: British Summer Time
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2012, 08:15:58 am »
I work 12hr shifts & when the clock go forward we work the 11hrs & still get 12hrs pay. If working when they go back we get 1hrs overtime on top of the 12hr shift.
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