Well that's what I think! The whole purpose went south years ago and now its more of an inconvenience than a help to 99% of those affected. Bring back Summer time!
Now that's out of my system we can get on. With the dark days (see above!), i'm struggling to get in the good long rides without having to resort to lighting - especially when the days are so dingy and grey. I suppose I could get up earlier but where's the fun in that? Anyhow, I've managed a couple of metric centuries since Wednesday even if they have been a bit dark.
On to stuff you might be interested in. the greyness has got my, er grey matter working, I've got a couple of new story plots fizzling away, one potentially novel length, the other most likely a one off loooong chapter. Of course they only add to the growing list of stuff I need to get wrote but maybe i'll make a start tomorrow and see where things go.
And so to reading matter that's finished, Book 17 Seasons to be precise. Yup, there is a new chapter, Sorely Tested, for you to read which hopefully will keep you going until Mittwoch.
Forgot to mention, the new Scaramouch book, Not All Windmills! is now also available as a Lulu download besides the print and Kindle versions so if you are stuck for some reading, hurry on over!
Well I guess that's about it for today
Au Revoir
Mads
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4+ Decades Earlier
In the USA, they went on Daylight Saving Time in January to save energy. They didn't realize that school-children thereby had to walk to school in the dark.
On the one hand: "The whole purpose went south years ago", but on the other hand, "Bring back Summer time!" Things may be different in Britain, but in the USA, Summer time is Daylight Saving Time. Ordinary time, Standard Time, was winter time. If Daylight Time were eliminated, we'd be on winter time throughout.
-- Daphne Xu
Summer time
The European time issue is a little complex and likely to become more complex post-Brexit, whenever that happens. In the winter (ie November-March) the UK is on GMT (also known as UTC) and Western Europe is on CET (Central European), which is GMT/UTC+1. In the summer, both time zones shift forward so the UK moves onto GMT+1 and Europe goes to CET+1 (GMT+2) Worth noting that the former Eastern Bloc countries, that are now mostly EU nations, are CET+1 or CET+2 in the winter.
Anyway, the current arrangement means that Brussels/Paris/Amsterdam etc are always 1 hour ahead of London, all year round.
Some bright sparks suggested the UK should move onto GMT+1 and stay there, all year. This would put us in the same time zone as Paris etc in the winter, and still an hour behind in the summer - not ideal!
Post Brexit, anything is possible, including GMT all year. However, Eire has traditionally used the same time zone as the UK, if we unilaterally changed our DST arrangements, then half of Ireland would be in a different time zone to the rest of the island!
Methinks the status quo will prevail!
Shiraz
I don't
Have a particular issue either way (although logically most of Spain should be on UK time not CET due to its longitude) when it was first mooted a large percentage of the largely rural population stood to gain by it. These days it's no real advantage to anyone - farmers have machinery that can work 24hrs if need be, huge arc lights etc so daylight hours are meaningless. Instead everything gets shifted so that these days, most of the now urban population lose out from lack of daylight in the normal working/school day.
No wonder the birds go south for the winter!
Madeline Anafrid Bell