Reply to: British Summer Time

[Masher]

I changed all my clocks. It cost a fortune. I'm going to see if I can just swap with the neighbours next tme.

[expat]

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

Raspberries. Don't need much light, don't mind the wet. Most British rasps are Scottish.

[ratewhore]

YES! That’s why they should have a different time system in Scotland. Dark o’clock, light o’clock, fog o’clock, rain o’clock, Deep fried Mars bar o'clock and quarter to Rangers Vs Celtic!

For you that was

[DaveB]

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

Rhubarb

[Doggy Styles]

Does changing the clocks actually decrease the number of daylight hours in Scotland? Well I never...

Jock farmers think so, and that's what matters.

I heard it had something to do with children going to school in the dark rush-hour as well.

[Mich the Tester]

Does changing the clocks actually decrease the number of daylight hours in Scotland? Well I never...

YES! That’s why they should have a different time system in Scotland. Dark o’clock, light o’clock, fog o’clock, rain o’clock, Deep fried Mars bar o'clock and quarter to Rangers Vs Celtic!

[gingerjedi]

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

Does changing the clocks actually decrease the number of daylight hours in Scotland? Well I never...

[Mich the Tester]

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

Mushrooms.

[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?

[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?

[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.....

[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]

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.....

[gingerjedi]

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

[Mich the Tester]

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