Scrap BST - leave the clocks alone!

[Workingman]

The call goes out each year and has become an annual event like Christmas and Easter. The proposal will go before parliament again this year.

Those who want to scrap BST power up their health warnings, both physical and mental - always mental.

Those who want to keep BST play on the energy savings of lighter evenings.

And both bang on about us getting more daylight, which is not true. We get exactly the same amount of daylight just at different times on our artificial time pieces.

As ex military I am not that bothered. We worked to the Zulu time constant (or UTC) so that no matter where we were on Earth it was always GMT to ensure that all the forces were coordinated.

[Workingman]

OK, I'll throw my hat in the ring.

Let's have GMT all year round.

We don't get more sunlight, that's the myth. Nobody sits out in the garden till 10:30 to 11 PM, even on the summer solstice. Mornings are lighter - we can have breakfast without the lights on. Who cares?

[Suff]

Apparently we are all meant to be menatal weaklings today....

I don't care either way. I've spent far too long swapping 1 hour between Europe and the UK to care about one hour.

[Suff]

OK, I'll throw my hat in the ring.

Let's have GMT all year round.

We don't get more sunlight, that's the myth. Nobody sits out in the garden till 10:30 to 11 PM, even on the summer solstice. Mornings are lighter - we can have breakfast without the lights on. Who cares?

We do but not in the UK....

[cruiser2]

I can remember, many years ago at a large food factory which worked shifts, employees on nigh shift were paid for eight hours when the clocks went forward even though they only worked for seven.

Similarly they were paid fror nine hours when the clocks went back.

I don't know if it still operates like this.

[Workingman]

I don't know if it still operates like this.

That's how I remember things from my working days post RAF, but they were in larger organisations. I am not sure how it worked in smaller places.

You and Suff will know what I meant about Zulu time.