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@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: new UK proposal

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Peter Ilieve wrote:

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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

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John Parker London N3 ---

Peter Ilieve peter@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 ;-)

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M. Burnicki

Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany