Lobby your employer to let you work 8 - 4 instead.
Totally agree why mess about with everyone's time. Sure if there is wide spread adoption of these hours after that then your case is strengthened. Plus this is considerably more likely to happen.
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once we're past mid-summer the hours of daylight shift so fast that pretty soon (mid september-ish) we're racing the clock to fit in a ride after work.
Just a thought...
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I don't understand why Northern folk moan all the time. Perhaps it's the effect of putting up with erratic daylight hours!?
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Daylight hours are quite predictable - as is the whining from down south
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ditch_jockey:
riding-lights are indeed an excellent idea, i have some, they're ace.
but they don't really help at the bmx track, or people having a kick-around in the park, or outdoor climbing, or sailing, or ... etc.
this brilliant country of ours is (not?) dealing with an alarming increase of stupidity related fatness.
i don't know how many fat people would do half an hour of exercise 2 or 3 times a week if they had a bit more time to do it in - but one way to find out is to give it a go.
how many fat people are there in the uk? - about 30,000,000? if 1% were persuaded to turn off X-factor and go for a walk every now and then, that would be 300,000 less fat people, that's 300,000 people who don't risk getting their feet amputated through diabetes related complications.
how many teenage boys are there in the uk? 4million? how many more will go to bed knackered because they've been razzing round the bmx track for an extra 3 nights a week, 6 months of the year? - rather than getting listless, bored and (self)destructive because it's dark and the track doesn't have flood lights.
etc.
yes, it will get dark in winter - it already does. But we also have 'excess' daylight in the mornings for much of the year which we don't make much use of, i don't honestly know if changing the clocks will change much, but i think it's worth trying.
it's a very cheap fix to some very expensive problems, and if it doesn't work, we can undo it quickly and cheaply.
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I still don't get the problem and I live in Scotland.
I'm up at 7-8am each day. It's dark. I have 2 hours at most to get to work or uni- it's only just light when I arrive, but the rush hour is still dark. Making it dark an hour later makes naff all difference.
In the evening, say I finish at 5, at least it's only just got dark. And in January/February it'd be light til 6, giving me a chance to do something with my evening that just wouldn't be done in the morning.
What do all the people against this idea do between 8 and 9am that needs so much halflight?
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Real jobs?
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surely people with 'real' jobs are at work by 8? or working shifts so none of this would affect them...
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ahwiles - Member
this brilliant country of ours is (not?) dealing with an alarming increase of stupidity related fatness.
BST was introduced in 1916. The problem of obesity has increased since then. Therefore, I submit that just using GMT all year will reduced the problem of obesity.
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working hours in general are 9-5. At the moment in scotland its light to get to work dark after.
If we change the clocks its dark for both. NO advantage only disadvantage
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ahwiles - Member
surely people with 'real' jobs are at work by 8? or working shifts so none of this would affect them...IT.WAS.A.JOKE.
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yeah, so was mine, a subtle dig at TJ - cos he's a shift worker innit.
(who are these 9-5'ers of whom he speaks? - i know plenty of 8-5'ers...)
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I usually start work at 8.45 and it's, for the purposes of doing anything, dark then. Why not bump it back an hour and let the rest of the country reap the benefits?
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working hours in general are 9-5. At the moment in scotland its light to get to work dark after.
If we change the clocks its dark for both. NO advantage only disadvantage
....for scotland. Quite a lot of advantages for the rest of us. Aka the majority of the population.
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Daylight hours are quite predictable - as is the whining from
downsouthup northFixed that for you
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