Daylight Saving

[Mervyn and Trish]

So the EU is now debating ending their ruling that all states must alter their clocks forward and back on the same days in March and October.

So called daylight saving. Supposedly it saves energy. In practice it seems it doesn't.

Can someone explain it to me?

The number of hours of daylight is set by the sun and the rotation of the earth. The time the clock displays is irrelevant to that. So how does changing them "save" daylight?

[Stephen]

Just leave it on one or the other.

[towny44]

No I quite like moving it around, although I would move our clocks in line with Canada, which sort of shortens winter and lengthens Spring and summer, although that might be a concept that Merv cannot grasp.

[Mervyn and Trish]

I can't. The hours of daylight stay exactly the same!

[towny44]

I can't. The hours of daylight stay exactly the same!

Yes but daylight is more useful at some chronological times than others.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not sure that's true in the 21st Century.

[Manoverboard]

Daylight is deffo useful for children going to morning school in Scotland but we live in Darzet and it b'aint be a problem for us cos t'horse can find its own way whatever the prevailing conditions.

ps … it is only at such times that one realises how many clocks one has don'tcha know.

[david63]

ps … it is only at such times that one realises how many clocks one has don'tcha know.

Radio controlled clocks are the way forward

[Mervyn and Trish]

ps … it is only at such times that one realises how many clocks one has don'tcha know.

Radio controlled clocks are the way forward

And backward in October?

[Mervyn and Trish]

Daylight is deffo useful for children going to morning school in Scotland but we live in Darzet and it b'aint be a problem for us cos t'horse can find its own way whatever the prevailing conditions.

ps … it is only at such times that one realises how many clocks one has don'tcha know.

I get that but there is such a difference in daylight north to south. The days are shorter full stop in Scotland. If they get more light going to school they get less coming home.

[towny44]

Daylight is deffo useful for children going to morning school in Scotland but we live in Darzet and it b'aint be a problem for us cos t'horse can find its own way whatever the prevailing conditions.

ps … it is only at such times that one realises how many clocks one has don'tcha know.

I get that but there is such a difference in daylight north to south. The days are shorter full stop in Scotland. If they get more light going to school they get less coming home.

If wee Krankie Sturgeon had received Dorset daylight, she might have ended up taller.

[oldbluefox]

Daylight is deffo useful for children going to morning school in Scotland but we live in Darzet and it b'aint be a problem for us cos t'horse can find its own way whatever the prevailing conditions.

ps … it is only at such times that one realises how many clocks one has don'tcha know.

I get that but there is such a difference in daylight north to south. The days are shorter full stop in Scotland. If they get more light going to school they get less coming home.

I'm with you Merv. I never understood the logic. The amount of daylight is the same no matter what you do with the clocks.

[towny44]

Daylight is deffo useful for children going to morning school in Scotland but we live in Darzet and it b'aint be a problem for us cos t'horse can find its own way whatever the prevailing conditions.

ps … it is only at such times that one realises how many clocks one has don'tcha know.

I get that but there is such a difference in daylight north to south. The days are shorter full stop in Scotland. If they get more light going to school they get less coming home.

I'm with you Merv. I never understood the logic. The amount of daylight is the same no matter what you do with the clocks.

I still prefer my long daylit evenings in summer, and it getting light earlier in the morning in winter, its only animals that work on sunrise and sunset, us humans use a clock to get us up and tell us when to go to bed.

[barney]

I have no hard feelings either way on this subject, but I do object to any decision being implemented upon us from Brussels.