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aeoncole
Just my opinion but...
Mar 14, 2010 08:16
Daylight Savings Time is a silly, outdated concept and I don't know why we still do it except that people in this country can't accept change even when it makes sense (
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nakeisha
March 14 2010, 12:25:28 UTC
*Nods in full agreement with you*
We switch to British Summer Time (BST) in a couple of weeks and it's pointless.
There was a point, during the war (when we had double BST) but no longer. Let's just leave the clocks as they are and stop messing around!
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aeoncole
March 14 2010, 12:28:01 UTC
In this country it was a convenience for the farmers and made sense in the 19th century but now it's just silly.
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nakeisha
March 14 2010, 13:25:38 UTC
It was for the farming community it was done here too, hence double BST during war time.
It is indeed just daft now.
We live in a farming area and nowadays they have such powerful lights on their huge machines they go on working right into the dark anyway.
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aeoncole
March 14 2010, 13:38:29 UTC
And most farming in this country is mechanized anyway.
What I find really funny is when people try to argue that we're getting an extra hour of daylight.
No, the sun is out today for the same number of hours it was yesterday. *headdesk*
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We switch to British Summer Time (BST) in a couple of weeks and it's pointless.
There was a point, during the war (when we had double BST) but no longer. Let's just leave the clocks as they are and stop messing around!
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It is indeed just daft now.
We live in a farming area and nowadays they have such powerful lights on their huge machines they go on working right into the dark anyway.
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What I find really funny is when people try to argue that we're getting an extra hour of daylight.
No, the sun is out today for the same number of hours it was yesterday. *headdesk*
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