Double summertime?
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:56 pm
Looks like there is going to be a vote on whether the UK should shift itself into a different time zone.
This debate has been ongoing ever since I can remember, but apparently research has been undertaken and it has been revealed that such a move is likely to provide a boost to the country's economy.
It won't affect any animal other than the human being, since the actual hours of daylight obviously won't change, but how do UKB members feel about the proposals?
It'll be great in summer - dusk will only begin at about 10.30pm in the south of the country (and on the northern coast of Scotland it will still be light at midnight). However, in winter it'll be dead-set dark at 9am for about 6 weeks in deepest winter (something I'm not sure I could cope with).
I recall when I lived in the south of France that we would arrive for morning lectures at the university for 830am and it was absolutely dark. It didn't really get light till about 9.15am. That said, there WAS a compensatory benefit in the sense that darkness only fell after 5.15pm, which is roughly when it arrives in mid-February in the UK.
The BBC has an interesting page on this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12523164
This debate has been ongoing ever since I can remember, but apparently research has been undertaken and it has been revealed that such a move is likely to provide a boost to the country's economy.
It won't affect any animal other than the human being, since the actual hours of daylight obviously won't change, but how do UKB members feel about the proposals?
It'll be great in summer - dusk will only begin at about 10.30pm in the south of the country (and on the northern coast of Scotland it will still be light at midnight). However, in winter it'll be dead-set dark at 9am for about 6 weeks in deepest winter (something I'm not sure I could cope with).
I recall when I lived in the south of France that we would arrive for morning lectures at the university for 830am and it was absolutely dark. It didn't really get light till about 9.15am. That said, there WAS a compensatory benefit in the sense that darkness only fell after 5.15pm, which is roughly when it arrives in mid-February in the UK.
The BBC has an interesting page on this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12523164