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British Summer Time
2007-Mar-25, Sunday 02:29What she said:
When the colonials did their DST shift a few weekends back, I commented somewhere that the whole idea is hopelessly archaic anyway. Why not have every clock in the world set to GMT, and you get up when it suits you and your employment, and go to bed when it suits you as well? Why should a farmer in Scotland be inconveninced by the desire of an office worker in London to have a nicer evening? Why doesn't the office worker just suggest to their boos that they get to work at 8 and finish at 4.30 instead of 9-5.30?
It's what I used to do at my last job (except, naturally, I started late; mornings? Pah!)
So, how about a new campaign, abolish silly clock changes, and proclaim GMT to be the truly global time, and people can adapt to the idea that noon isn't necessarily at 12pm. Would make a lot of IT related issues a lot simpler as well I suspect.
Stupid clocks. Why do they have to change them? It's annoying. I have to get up for bloody work an hour EARLY. And I LIKE it to get dark on a night! Staying light till ten o'clock isn't NATURAL.I understand why, back in the days of uniform office hours and set factory shifts, that clocks changed a bit. But every time they talk about changing the system, some twunt comes up with a whinge about farmers having to get up when it's dark to go milking (why, because the cows are going to change their clocks?) or similar.
When the colonials did their DST shift a few weekends back, I commented somewhere that the whole idea is hopelessly archaic anyway. Why not have every clock in the world set to GMT, and you get up when it suits you and your employment, and go to bed when it suits you as well? Why should a farmer in Scotland be inconveninced by the desire of an office worker in London to have a nicer evening? Why doesn't the office worker just suggest to their boos that they get to work at 8 and finish at 4.30 instead of 9-5.30?
It's what I used to do at my last job (except, naturally, I started late; mornings? Pah!)
So, how about a new campaign, abolish silly clock changes, and proclaim GMT to be the truly global time, and people can adapt to the idea that noon isn't necessarily at 12pm. Would make a lot of IT related issues a lot simpler as well I suspect.
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