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Pearl

Pearl

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I know most clocks do it automatically now but I never do the car clock so it's right half the year but isn't it time we stopped this nonsense now? It's not like the majority of us need to work in the fields when it's lighter.
 
Pearl said:
I know most clocks do it automatically now but I never do the car clock so it's right half the year but isn't it time we stopped this nonsense now? It's not like the majority of us need to work in the fields when it's lighter.
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I agree Pearl, for as many years as I can remember the so called powers that be discussed scrapping this, I have seen farmers dealing with crops gone 10 pm with lighting from machines that would light a stadium, I have seen children at bus shelters with little or no lighting waiting for a bus to a school some distance away and it's still very dark out.
Folk on medication have to adjust their timings of when they now take their meds, so yes I think this is a totally pointless exercise these days
 
mashibinbin said:
I agree, it's an utterly pointless exercise and the fact it occurs at 1am just makes it even dafter!
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When my husband worked at a large factory on Sunday morning shift starting at 6am they used to sit in the canteen and take bets on who would be late because of the clock change and it was usually the same people but at the other end it was the same people that showed up an hour early.
 
Hmmmm......

British Summer Time and the European Union​

The British Summer Time Act was created in 1972 which started the tradition of changing the clocks in late March (subject to the date of Easter) and late October. Twenty years later, the changing of the clocks in Britain was aligned with other European countries and from 2002 onwards, the EU stipulated that all member states should adjust their clocks on the last Sunday in March and October. Iceland is exempt from this directive, due to its northerly latitude and extreme variations in daylight and darkness throughout the year.

In March 2019 the European Parliament backed a proposal to end the practice of changing the clocks in European Union states. Initially the plan was for EU nations to change their clocks for the last time in 2021, but the legislation has stalled in recent years. For the time being, EU nations continue to implement seasonal time changes.

Daylight saving time around the world​

Currently, about 70 countries worldwide adopt some form of daylight saving, mainly in Europe and North America. For countries in the equatorial regions, there is little variation in the length of daylight across the year, with roughly 10-12 hours of daylight and 10-12 hours of darkness each day, so daylight saving offers no benefit.
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Working on Computer systems from the early eighties I dreaded the two clock changes it was an absolute mare with mainframe systems and all the programmes that ran on them , the impact now I imagine is negligible given what our phones and tech o/s are capable of . When the change was done we'd always play Pink Floyd's Time as a sort of ironic toast to the success.
 
Changing the time on clocks twice a year was an easy bit of Sunday overtime for a few BT engineers. In the large telephone exchange (large towns and cities) so that they ran accurately, all the clocks in the building were 'powered' by a pulse from the exchange equipment every 30 seconds. The pulse was part of the system that operated things like call metering (when you paid per minute for a call) and ensuring the ring tone (and ring current to phones) was the correct cadence. Putting clocks forward required the engineer to connect a battery to each clock in turn, to advance the hands. 60 minutes = 120 battery pulses. Reversing the battery didn't reverse the clock, so that's err... lots of pulses! Over time common sense prevailed and individual battery clocks replace the pulse clocks!
 
I have one clock that automatically changes time because it can receive a sync signal.

This morning I had to change all the others in the house, some easier than others!
 
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