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BR wrote:
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BR wrote:Fewer going to do it twice a year?

Could really confuse some TV viewers.
will it really be fewer doing it or just the same number doing it differently?
AFAIK is the proposal to stop doing it altogether throughiut the EU.


i.e. a member state will choose a time zone and stick to it permanently.
Ah - missed that - had heard about the republic possibly being in a different time-zone from NI and thought they were considering moving to CET.
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pwrmoore wrote:
BR wrote:
pwrmoore wrote:
BR wrote:Fewer going to do it twice a year?

Could really confuse some TV viewers.
will it really be fewer doing it or just the same number doing it differently?
AFAIK is the proposal to stop doing it altogether throughiut the EU.


i.e. a member state will choose a time zone and stick to it permanently.
Ah - missed that - had heard about the republic possibly being in a different time-zone from NI and thought they were considering moving to CET.
Of course they are already in a different time zone (IST) which is technically the same as CET.
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hmmmm, been made aware some folk may have forgot, so could be wise to check your settings in your user control panel...
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BR wrote: Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:53 am
pwrmoore wrote:
BR wrote:Fewer going to do it twice a year?

Could really confuse some TV viewers.
will it really be fewer doing it or just the same number doing it differently?
AFAIK is the proposal to stop doing it altogether throughiut the EU.


i.e. a member state will choose a time zone and stick to it permanently.
Looks like Sundays date to impliment this change has slipped by. One of those things that the EU has overstretched its power on? Maybe it wiĺl just be swept unter den Teppich and never mentioned again.
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BST begins in UK
Dayligtt wasting time ends in Ireland
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Getting an extra hour in 2022 is like getting a bonus track on a Yoko Ono album.
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big mervyn wrote: Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:13 pm Getting an extra hour in 2022 is like getting a bonus track on a Yoko Ono album.
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for dog and ulcer wrote: Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:26 pm
big mervyn wrote: Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:13 pm Getting an extra hour in 2022 is like getting a bonus track on a Yoko Ono album.
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Prior to 1880 local mean time was the order of the day. That meant that local time was set by the position of the sun. If you travelled from London to Bristol you had to change your pocket watch back 20 minutes to match the local time there.

On another time related topic. Do any of you oldies remember between 1968 and 1971, Britain tested keeping BST all year round? That is the the clocks weren't turned back in the autumn. I have vague recollections of leaving school in the dark.
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mid ulster maestro wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:56 am Prior to 1880 local mean time was the order of the day. That meant that local time was set by the position of the sun. If you travelled from London to Bristol you had to change your pocket watch back 20 minutes to match the local time there.

On another time related topic. Do any of you oldies remember between 1968 and 1971, Britain tested keeping BST all year round? That is the the clocks weren't turned back in the autumn. I have vague recollections of leaving school in the dark.
Yes. I do remember that. Radioactive glow in the dark Ready Brek was essential but you would have arrived in the dark rather than left.

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big mervyn wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:30 am
mid ulster maestro wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:56 am Prior to 1880 local mean time was the order of the day. That meant that local time was set by the position of the sun. If you travelled from London to Bristol you had to change your pocket watch back 20 minutes to match the local time there.

On another time related topic. Do any of you oldies remember between 1968 and 1971, Britain tested keeping BST all year round? That is the the clocks weren't turned back in the autumn. I have vague recollections of leaving school in the dark.
Yes. I do remember that. Radioactive glow in the dark Ready Brek was essential but you would have arrived in the dark rather than left.

Here's another one for the teenagers!

https://youtu.be/6LS1ASXtWsY
Yep, remember it well... actually, not so well, these days. Merv's right, we started school in the dark. I preferred that arrangement. Should have kept it.
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mid ulster maestro wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:56 am On another time related topic. Do any of you oldies remember between 1968 and 1971, Britain tested keeping BST all year round?
Rum'n remembers when we had double BST all year round between 1939 and 45. :lol:
mid ulster maestro wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:56 am I have vague recollections of leaving school in the dark.
That was just because you were in detention. :lol:
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Changing the clocks is woke nonsense. Children should just get on with it if they get knocked down.
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