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@aldie.co.uk
Quoth Peter Ilieve on Sat, Apr 03, 1999:
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.
I propose to abandon time between 6:00 and 20:00 altogether. Vadik. -- Strange Fruit. A brilliant way to describe somebody hanging from a tree... -- Marcus Miller
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@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
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