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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“In truth, I just wish they’d leave the clocks alone at either GMT or BST all year.”
GMT it is then.
This changing clocks business does produce some quirks. During WW2, the UK operated on Double Summer Time, 2 hours ahead of GMT. This applied in Northern Ireland. However, Eire (which was neutral during “The Emergency”) only put its clocks forward by the usual hour. This meant, for example, you could leave Newry and arrive in Dundalk before you left, in a manner of speaking.
Anyone who has returned to England from France via the channel tunnel has experienced the same thing due to France’s ludicrous insistence on being in the same time zone as Berlin, despite being in the same zone of longitude as Britain.
I think I would prefer all year round BST but not that bothered as long as we don’t have to change clocks. Still got stuff in the house that needs changing and having to get manuals out to see how to do this on ovens, microwaves etc is a bit of a pain at 10.30 pm. You’d think you’d get used to it but as you don’t do it often enough you still sometimes make a pig’s ear of it.
Maybe we should change the clocks forward and back every week so I can get used to it
I wish all this putting the clocks backwards and forwards would stop. It really is a double-edged sword. I mean … one could go to bed a hour earlier and get out of the wrong side of it in the morning and, as a result, bad decisions are made.Furthermore, it then has a knock-on effect on the people around you 🎭
I get the feeling that it’s one of those things we do becuase it’s been done for decades. You’ll never please everyone as there is so much seasonal variation and indeed north to south variation, go with one and stick to it I say.
Things like artificial lighting have come on so much since the days of worrying about kids going to school in the dark and most of them get driven there anyway, even when they live a few hundred metres away.
Regarding Spain, I believe it comes from the days of Franco wanting to be on the same time as Germany and it’s simply stuck since. Things happen very late in the day over there, restaurants remain crowded long after they’d be closed here for example.
Yes, that is exactly why Spain is bizarrely in the same time zone as Germany. Franco was eager to please Hitler, although he really should not have bothered. The Austrian corporal had a very low opinion of him.
Portugal went into the same time zone as well for a while. It was so unpopular it moved back to the same time zone as London and Dublin, where it remains.
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