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The thing people object to about daylight savings time is the act of changing the clocks - not the new times themselves. You’re correct that the country remaine
by matthewmacleod 4y ago
The thing people object to about daylight savings time is the act of changing the clocks - not the new times themselves. You’re correct that the country remained in UTC+1, but it would be difficult to describe that as “daylight savings time” if the clocks stop changing.
- Retric 4y agoChanging sleep cycles is more of a pain than clocks, it’s automatic in the vast majority of devices. I’ve not even realized the switch happened a few times because my alarm and everything else changed automatically. If you’re still changing wall clocks manually there is a much better option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock
- aidos 4y agoMaybe most people object to that, but personally I like to have daylight hours first thing in the morning to pop out for a run to start the day. There’s a weird bit in October where you lose the ability to do that because of BST. I was genuinely curious as to when the Uk last didn’t have BST. I believe the the answer might be a very long time ago, in conflict with the original assertion I was replying to. If people pick through my responses here it’s very strange that I’m being downvoted. I suspect maybe a few people have forgotten to follow the HN rule of trying to read charitably.
- ghaff 4y agoIt's a mix. There's definitely a camp of pick a time zone--any time zone--but don't change it over the course of the year. And then there's a camp that doesn't want winter (in higher latitudes) to involve getting up and about in pitch blackness for "normal" schedules but also likes long summer evenings rather than sunrise at 5am.
- soneil 4y agoThe UK last spent a whole year on GMT in 1915.