This might be good in the UK and very good in Germany but what about our
southern EC neighbours? The Spanish would lose an hour of sleep from their
siesta which sounds like a bad idea when it will be applied every day.
Has anyone any bright ideas for the former Yugoslavia where the clocks seem
to have been put back 50 years?
Geoff.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Burnicki [SMTP:martin.burnicki@meinberg.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 2:00 PM
> To: tz(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: Re: new UK proposal
>
> ***** This message originated from outside the AA *****
>
> Peter Ilieve wrote:
> >
> > The following letter appeared in the Independent (a UK `quality'
> > broadsheet paper) on 31 March, so was presumably not an April Fool
> > (although I have my doubts :-):
> > ---
> > Time for reform
> >
> > Sir: I cannot be the only person who felt disoriented on Sunday
> > morning after losing an hour's sleep, but who was grateful for the
> > prospect of lighter evenings. Nevertheless, I feel that permanent
> > British Summer Time would not be appropriate because of excessively
> > long dark mornings in Scotland, and the loss of October's extra
> > hour in bed would be hard to bear.
> > May I therefor suggest that the country adopts Greenwich Mean Time
> > in the mornings, and BST in the afternoons? The clocks could go
> > forward after lunch and back around 2am. This would reduce the
> > working week (currently far too long for most people) and give
> > everyone an extra hour in bed every night. Evenings would be lighter,
> > and mornings not too dark in winter. Why has nobody thought of this
>
> > before?
> >
> > John Parker
> > London N3
> > ---
> >
> > Peter Ilieve peter(a)aldie.co.uk
>
> I think this is a VERY good idea. But remember we're the European
> Community. That rule to determine beginning/end of daylight saving
> should be used all over Europe, so we would also benefit from it in
> Germany ;-)
>
> --
>
> M. Burnicki
>
> Meinberg Funkuhren
> Bad Pyrmont
> Germany
