Reply to: Double Summer time

[RichardCranium]

Every year this comes up in the papers as they are too bone-idle to write news stories.

It is all al load of bollocks.

What we need is flexible working, remote working and decent furkin management that allows people to be measured on results, not their ability to leave their fat arse in a chair from 9 to 5 every day.

[Sysman]

It would also bring our office hours inline with most of the EU, which has got to be good, especially for The Hun who get two extra hours per day to bomb London without going into overtime. But nobody ever thinks of The Hun.

Aargh no! I used to work at a European subsidiary of a UK company. We liked that hour's peace in the morning before the UK started work and phoning us up.

[TimberWolf]

Seems a bit mad to put the clocks back just as it's starting to get dark too early already. Why don't they wait until the beginning of summer to put them back?

[VectraMan]

The last time this was done, the Hun were busily bombing the tulipe out of us.

It would also bring our office hours inline with most of the EU, which has got to be good, especially for The Hun who get two extra hours per day to bomb London without going into overtime. But nobody ever thinks of The Hun.

[Tingles]

I'm coordinating clock change activities this weekend at client co, one area has produced a plan which has over 400 activities. Brand new ERP system. Just service transitioned into operations - why didn't anyone check this?

They want a 6 hour outage.

400 activities twice a year, every year.


Why oh why...

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[SupremeSpod]

Didn't the Soviet Union have just one timezone?

[EternalOptimist]

Where does it say one-off?, its a bit unclear and I think that was what the gingerjedi was talking about.

[kandr]

I don't think that anyone has really suggested that.

The only proposal that I have heard of is a once-off skipping putting the clocks back one year.

I suppose I could roll with the comic version though and we could just put the clocks one hour forward each year. It would be freaky but I think it might be rather fun.

Where does it say one-off?, its a bit unclear and I think that was what the gingerjedi was talking about.

[Gonzo]

Think about what happens when you put the clock forward year after year without putting it back? Cmon you can do it.

I don't think that anyone has really suggested that.

The only proposal that I have heard of is a once-off skipping putting the clocks back one year.

I suppose I could roll with the comic version though and we could just put the clocks one hour forward each year. It would be freaky but I think it might be rather fun.

[kandr]

The problem would be that Greenwich, the very centre of time around the globe would never be on Greenwich Mean Time, it would always be on GMT+1 or GMT+2.

I think the earth might stop rotating on its axis.


Other than that I would have loved it if this was done years ago.

Think about what happens when you put the clock forward year after year without putting it back? Cmon you can do it.

[Gonzo]

Does anyone see a problem here?

The problem would be that Greenwich, the very centre of time around the globe would never be on Greenwich Mean Time, it would always be on GMT+1 or GMT+2.

I think the earth might stop rotating on its axis.


Other than that I would have loved it if this was done years ago.

[kandr]

Does anyone see a problem here?

Yeah, he hasn't thought it through, like the nurse who washed all her geriatrics falsers in a big basin.

[Ignis Fatuus]

If we did this it would result in thousands of Scottish people having to start drinking in the dark every morning.

Obviously it should be a devolved power. Let the Scots decide for themselves, and let the English decide for England.

[TestMangler]

If we did this it would result in thousands of Scottish people having to start drinking in the dark every morning.

I think you'll find that is racist

[gingerjedi]

Not putting the clocks back on Sunday morning but still putting them forward in the spring would increase daylight hours and encourage more outdoor activity, suggests a report in the British Medical Journal.

Does anyone see a problem here?