RE: UK news: Nigel Beard's Lighter Evenings Bill fails
This may be a silly question but, out of interest, could someone tell me what the main drawbacks of doing this is? My initial reaction was to think this may be a good idea, based on being fed-up with dark evenings riding a motorcycle home from work, but I may have missed something obvious here, which I hope someone can point out? I suppose that if we don't experience GREENWICH Mean Time as the Local time at SOME time in the year, it would be laughable bearing in mind it's a UK town! Best Rgds, Dave Stewart -----Original Message----- From: Peter Ilieve [mailto:peter@aldie.co.uk] Sent: 18 October 2004 10:16 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: UK news: Nigel Beard's Lighter Evenings Bill fails Nigel Beard's ten minute rule Lighter Evenings Bill came up for its second reading on Friday. The Hansard report is at 15 Oct 2004 Column 594: <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/cm041015/ debtext/41015-19.htm#41015-19_head0>. The bit covering the Lighter Evening Bill is short enough to quote in full: LIGHTER EVENINGS BILL Order for Second Reading read. Hon. Members: Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 5 November. Parliamentary procedure for bills like this is that a single member shouting Object is sufficient to kill it off. Rational debate it ain't. The bit about reading it again on 5 Nov is fairly meaningless. The house won't actually be sitting on that day. Nigel chose a date in the near future rather than giving up just in case some emergency arises that means the house would sit on that day. It's vanishingly unlikely that it will, and even if it does no doubt the Hon. Members would Object again. There was some reporting of this proposal in the Scottish papers early last week. Nigel wrote a letter to the Sunday Herald setting out his case. This appeared in the news section and is available at: <http://www.sundayherald.com/45353>. By the time this appeared the Bill had already been lost. I'm surprised the Herald didn't note this. So that's it for this latest attempt to fiddle with the clocks here in the UK. Peter Ilieve peter@aldie.co.uk IMPORTANT NOTICE This communication contains information, which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Teletext Ltd. Teletext Ltd. Building 10 Chiswick Park 566 Chiswick High Road London W4 5TS Registered in England number 2694814 _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp
Dave Stewart wrote on 2004-10-18 13:10 UTC:
I suppose that if we don't experience GREENWICH Mean Time as the Local time at SOME time in the year, it would be laughable bearing in mind it's a UK town!
As some forces within the ITU seem still very keen on abolishing the leap second (current proposals seem to suggest from 2010 on), the meridian associated with the international reference time - currently known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), - formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and - possibly soon (2010?) known as International Time (TI, Temps International), would be slowly accellerating eastwards. "International Time" would be firmly on first French territory within less than a millenium (followed by Germany, Poland, and eventually Russia for a very long time). Within just a few millenia, each UN member would have had its fair share of International Time being equal to local time ... Good bye, Greenwich. Markus Background: - http://people.itu.int/~meens/CE7/Sept-04/7A/TEMP/R03-WP7A-040928-TD-0004-E.h... - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/leap/ - http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/ -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__
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