Gordo to steal one hour of everyone's time.

[Churchill]

Hey chimp! Do you ever sleep?

[MrMark]

Does anyone have the time?

[expat]

I don't know why we have it, misconception is that people in Scotland asked for it to stop the kids being killed on the streets during the morning.

Wrong way round: British Summer Time gives darker mornings in Scotland, so Scots aked NOT to have it in order to save lives. To the usual amount of effect.

It's time we stopped asking.

[minestrone]

Wrong way round: British Summer Time gives darker mornings in Scotland, so Scots aked NOT to have it in order to save lives. To the usual amount of effect.

It's time we stopped asking.

There lies the misconception, apparently there was some major accident in Orkney or somewhere in which 10 kids got killed, it never happened though.

[expat]

There lies the misconception, apparently there was some major accident in Orkney or somewhere in which 10 kids got killed, it never happened though.

Where lies the misconception? I never had a misconception that there was some accident in Orkney etc.

I did have the conception that BST gives darker mornings, and that it gives dark mornings at school-times in Scotland more than in England. That's not a misconception.

Is there a formal name for the fallacy of assuming wrongly what the other person's unmentioned reason probably was? "Straw Man", perhaps. It's unfair because if unanswered, the other wrongly appears to be in error, and if answered, the other spend his resources rebutting what was never true.

[expat]

It's a fact! After Saturday night everyone will lose exactly one hour.

You are not losing it, you are just investing it until the Autumn. At 0% of course

[MrMark]

You are not losing it, you are just investing it until the Autumn. At 0% of course

This may soon be a better return than the banks. Isn't Gordon a genius?

[BrowneIssue]

FYI

A nice summary.

For decades I have felt like a lone voice crying "Why do we continue to do this stupid thing?"

I still await an answer that stands up and warrants the entire nation being messed about. In fact, go back 6 months and you'll find my previous rant on the subject.

25 million households, each with 6 clocks (we have over 20) taking a couple of minutes each to set, call it 15 minutes for the operation = the equivalent of 3,700 years of work effort (at 37 hrs per week) twice a year.

How did the Egyptians build the pyramids? Probably by not changing their ******* clocks twice a year.

[expat]

FYI

S.R.&O. 1916 No. 382 (Isle of Man—Summer Time)

Long title: Order extending the Summer Time Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 14), with adaptations.
Date: 23rd May 1916.
This order, under the Isle of Man (War Legislation) Act, 1914, extended the Summer Time Act, 1916 to the Isle of Man, creating an object known as the “Summer Time (Isle of Man) Act, 1916”, with retroactive effect from the date on which the Summer Time Act, 1916 took effect in the United Kingdom. Note that the date of this order is actually two days after Summer Time is deemed to have started.

Ah, retrospective legislation! Nothing new there, then.