Pitch dark by 5 o'clock today.
I've said all I'm going to say about the annual stupidity of putting the clocks back to daylight wasting time. The case for keeping our clocks one hour ahead of the sun in winter is overwhelming. Our lives are different from those of our ancestors. We get up later and go to bed later.
As Sir Alistair Horne said, if the Scots want to have their own Tundra Time, let them go ahead. Just don't drag the rest of us into the dark too.
The case of following the French in June 1940 is overwhelming is it?
Yes, that is when France went to the same time as Berlin.
Before then, they & Spain were on the same time zone as us.
Now stop being daft.
Posted by: Greg. Tingey | 28 October 2009 at 01:06 PM
Ah the annual ritual...PP writes about the fact that there's lots of evidence that putting the clocks back is a stupid, dangerous thing ... Greg Tingey comes back, clutching at straws with the usual whinge...and I respond saying he's talking bollocks. The evidence (particularly from a road safety point of view, which is what I know about) is overwhelming. Read it Greg.
Posted by: Jez | 29 October 2009 at 07:16 AM