Timezones
Rick Murray (539) 13351 posts |
Patching in CET and CEST support into the UK territory (sure to the horribly broken territory implementation) was quite easy. What wasn’t so easy was getting the thing to actually switch itself between summer time and winter time (and I not that NetTime didn’t help here either). Well, looks like I don’t need to bother worrying about it any more: And for those who can read French, the full size version is https://i.imgur.com/RwXYi0m.jpg It’s a good idea, if you ask me. Nobody did, but I’d be one of the 84% (which is more useful than being one of the 48%…). |
Leo Smiers (245) 55 posts |
Here in the Netherlands sleep specialists are also in favor, but they want the wintertime to be the new standard time as otherwise it will to long dark in the winter mornings. But that means we will have less light during the summer evenings. I don’t think it will be decided as quickly as Juncker expects. And will Britain follow? |
Rick Murray (539) 13351 posts |
If you read the article, the implication is “probably not but meh who cares they’re leaving” which I think is going to become the status quo. |
Colin Ferris (399) 1728 posts |
Whos been asked ? Anyone here? Thats for UK etc – (GMT +0) OR (GMT +1) OR (GMT +2) |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7904 posts |
A (Hungarian) work colleague might express the hope that this might mean his neighbours wouldn’t be noisily conversing in their garden at 01:00 (BST) I’d say that might only be because it would only be 24:00/00:00 GMT
Given the number of businesses that run “flexible working hours” or have requirements that their staff are available for the customer base (shops especially) the time on the clock face is largely just a marker for when they start at work and depart from it. In short BST is, for many, an irrelevance and the BS an abbrieviation of “bull ….” Clearly the good folk in the continental countries have actually stated this with regard to their local labelled version of this farce. |
Frederick Bambrough (1372) 813 posts |
I think we should have a referendum on it. |
Matthew Phillips (473) 676 posts |
Interesting that the map suggests Britain started changing clocks for the summer in 1972. It was happening well before that: Wikipedia gives it as 1916. But for a while in the late 1960s there was an experiment of staying on BST all the year round, which probably explains the year being shown as 1972. The vexed question will then be whether to pick summer or winter time to stick with. Being in the same timezone as Germany, the west of France is already more than one hour ahead of local solar time, even in the winter. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7904 posts |
Shh, if you carry on you’ll be pointing out that the Greenwich Meridian is only a small fraction West of Paris and upsetting the French. |