GMT +2 'Double summertime'

[lumos2000]

probley a big benift to the olimpics?

 

[The Ken]

Why? floodlights will be on anyway and fireworks and the flame look better at night.

 

[velomaniac]

Put remote controlled angled mirrors on the moon, get daylight whenever at the flick of a switch .............................................................................................................................................they're coming to take me away, ha ha he he.......................

 

[lumos2000]

Why? floodlights will be on anyway and fireworks and the flame look better at night.

was thinking of the sailing, cycling ect, mabey the tv scheduling, crowds and travle

 

[makster]

I don't want my kids walking/cycling to school in the dark, it will be dark at 10 am in winter up here if they change it.

Scotland has its own government and many laws applicable to Scotland but not England/ Wales so you could go your own way.

It'll learn'em for having free hospital parking

 

[FluffyChicken]

Why? floodlights will be on anyway and fireworks and the flame look better at night.

was thinking of the sailing, cycling ect, mabey the tv scheduling, crowds and travle

But why would that matter, just start them 2 hrs earlier ? Don't see why we need to bugger our clocks up to watch the Olympics. They'll be having us switch the clock 10hr or 6hr or so every few weeks soon so old Benrnie can have us watch the F1 GP at lunchtime no matter where they are.

 

[JohnH]

We should stick to GMT all year round.

Agreed. But I'd prefer England/Wales to stick to BST all year round rather than GMT.

 

[REKIBorter]

This is only a government proposal like the selling of the forests. They put the idea out to guage public opinion. I think it should stay as it is. As said earlier kids going to school and people driving to work in the morning benefit most from the light mornings (after 8am) in the middle of winter. Most kids are home before 4:15pm when it gets dark in the evenings.

 

[FluffyChicken]

We should stick to GMT all year round.

Agreed. But I'd prefer England/Wales to stick to BST all year round rather than GMT.

Why, BST is not our correct time, Universal Time and GMT which is 'us' is our correct time. It's all based around us in the first place from some place called Greenwich (though now replace by UTC )

Stick to our time and just sort out people working times.

 

[Easy_Rider]

The RAC's own study concluded that although fatalities would increase in the morning, there will be fewer fatalities in the evenings and overall fatalities would decrease (probably an extension of the below)

I'm for GMT+2 Summer and GMT+1 winter, gives time in the evenings after work to do things and we would be on CET which helps business.

We had GMT+2 during the war, and we've had GMT+1 all year in the 70's

During World War II, Britain retained the hour's advance on GMT at the start of the winter of 1940 and continued advancing the clocks by an extra hour during summer until July 1945. During these summers, Britain was 2 hours ahead of GMT and operating on British Double Summer Time. The clocks were reverted to GMT at the end of the summer of 1945. In 1947 owing to severe fuel shortages, the clocks were advanced by one hour twice during the spring and put back twice during the autumn so that Britain was back on BDST during the height of the summer.[3]

An inquiry during the winter of 1959–60 consulted 180 national organisations, and had revealed a slight preference for a change to all-year GMT+1, but the length of summer time was extended as a trial rather than the domestic use of Greenwich Mean Time abolished.[4] A further inquiry during 1966–67 led the government of Harold Wilson to introduce the British Standard Time experiment, with Britain remaining on GMT+1 throughout the year. This took place between 27 October 1968 and 31 October 1971, when there was a reversion to the previous arrangement.

Analysis of accident data for the first two years of the experiment indicated that while there had been an increase in casualties in the morning, there had been a substantially greater decrease in casualties in the evening, with a total of around 2,700 fewer people killed and seriously injured during the first two winters of the experiment,[5] at a time when about 1,000 people a day were killed or seriously injured on the roads.[6] The period coincided with the introduction of Drink-Driving legislation though, and the estimates were later modified downwards in 1989.[5]

The trial was the subject of a House of Commons debate on 2 December 1970[7] when on a free vote, the House of Commons voted to end the experiment by 366 to 81 votes.[8]