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The government are apparently considering moving the clocks forward by one hour for a three year trial period. That means in winter would be on BST and in summer we would be on BST +1.
So effectively ending GMT, check out the story here.
Any thoughts ?
Dammit - I like GMT. It's a British institution :geek:
I remember a similar trial when I was young, and it didn't stick then, so don't know why it would now. It does seem that whatever is done, someone is always going to have a good reason to hate it. Maybe a change in attitude to working hours would be better - mandatory introduction of flexitime (unless there are operational reasons not to) might be a better solution.
All I hear off the old folk in the family is that they tried something similar in the 60's/70's whenever it was, and it didn't work as it was darker longer etc, so what real difference would it make now?
Don't forget to change the time in your options (user control panel) to make sure that you are using GMT and that your DST is off π
Found this interesting fact in the news:
In November 2007, Laura Cirioli of North Carolina gave birth to Peter at 1:32 and, 34 minutes later, to Allison. As Standard Time starts at 2am, Allison became the older twin π
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