British Summer Time

[Cliphead]

Has started and it's snowing

[NickFitz]

Records show that it's more likely to snow at Easter than at Christmas.

[Nicely Nicely]

Records show that it's more likely to snow at Easter than at Christmas.

Don't worry.

They will be edited...

[Mich the Tester]

Would someone remind me why we bother with all this clock changing twice a year?

[gingerjedi]

Apparently Yorkshire had snow in June back in the 60's.

[expat]

Would someone remind me why we bother with all this clock changing twice a year?

WWI invention to save coal (effectively getting people to bed an hour earlier). Deemed a Good Thing by our government masters, like a lot of things from around the same time such as passports, pub closing hours, OS act, gun control.....

[Mich the Tester]

WWI invention to save coal (effectively getting people to bed an hour earlier). Deemed a Good Thing by our government masters, like a lot of things from around the same time such as passports, pub closing hours, OS act, gun control.....

Well why didn’t they just get people to work an hour earlier then send them home an hour earlier?

Bloody silly. When the wise men who invented the 24 hour system worked out how to tell the time, they gave various times of day ethically and culturally neutral names like 9 o’clock or half past three. If they’d wanted everyone to do everything at the same time they’d have called times ‘special o’clock’ or ‘going to work o’clock’ or ‘half past going home’, a bit like Tom Baker in Little Britain.

[expat]

Well why didn’t they just get people to work an hour earlier then send them home an hour earlier?

Bloody silly. When the wise men who invented the 24 hour system worked out how to tell the time, they gave various times of day ethically and culturally neutral names like 9 o’clock or half past three. If they’d wanted everyone to do everything at the same time they’d have called times ‘special o’clock’ or ‘going to work o’clock’ or ‘half past going home’, a bit like Tom Baker in Little Britain.

Mahlzeit, Feierabend.....

[gingerjedi]

WWI invention to save coal (effectively getting people to bed an hour earlier). Deemed a Good Thing by our government masters, like a lot of things from around the same time such as passports, pub closing hours, OS act, gun control.....

And there's me thinking it was done just to annoy the jock farmers, why they don't just get up an hour later instead of playing the victim yet again is anyones guess?

[Doggy Styles]

And there's me thinking it was done just to annoy the jock farmers, why they don't just get up an hour later instead of playing the victim yet again is anyones guess?

Yeah. Why don't they farm something that grows in the dark?