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Maybe it&#8217;s because my son woke me at 5.30 (because his body clock has not suddenly changed overnight) and consequentially I&#8217;m grumpy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At this time of year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-15490249\">the media churns out the same old stories<\/a> (it must be great for editors &#8211; rehash the article from 6 months ago and put it out again) and the gist is always that someone wants to change the time zone that the UK operates on, the Scots don&#8217;t want to (because being 500 miles north does make quite a difference), meanwhile someone else thinks it would be good to be on the same time zone as the rest of Western Europe (except Ireland).<\/p>\n<p>But this is England. The Greenwich Meridian runs through London. Universal time is based around <em>Greenwich<\/em> Mean Time. Why should we suddenly end up on GMT+1 in the winter and GMT+2 in the summer? Why do the clocks need to change at all?<\/p>\n<p>Some will argue road safely concerns in the winter &#8211; but we either have to travel to work\/school in the dark or travel home in the dark so that doesn&#8217;t make much sense to me. I\u00a0believe\u00a0that the original intention with daylight saving time was to increase the available hours for farming &#8211; except that farmers work all hours, and it doesn&#8217;t\u00a0actually\u00a0increase the number of hours in the day when we have daylight or darkness! With modern machinery the farmers where I live work through the night at harvest-time, so I don&#8217;t really see that being an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates of a switch in time zone are suggesting harmonisation for businesses in the UK and continental Europe to work the same hours. But how many\u00a0businesses\u00a0really work from 9-5? There are still local customs that lead to long lunches and late evenings in some parts of Europe; I certainly don&#8217;t get to go home because the clock has hit a certain time; and, anyway, business is global these days &#8211; we&#8217;re all well used to working across timezones.<\/p>\n<p>If we do have to mess with the timezones, why would it even have to apply in Scotland (who are vehemently against any further variation in &#8220;daylight saving time&#8221;)? Unlike England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Scotland has it&#8217;s own parliament and can elect to do whatever it likes (the Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies have some powers too). Australia and the United States work across multiple timezones (I&#8217;m sure some other countries do too) &#8211; so could the UK, if that&#8217;s what it takes (although we are tiny in comparison)! I don&#8217;t know too much about the US (except that East cost is 5 hours behind us and the west coat is 8; and that their clocks change at a different time of year so I always miss at least one conference call!) but some Australian states don&#8217;t even observe DST. So why not abolish DST in Engalnd and Wales, and let Scotland decide what it wants to do? Northern Ireland could probably abolish DST too, but I can see why they would want to follow \u00c9ire&#8217;s\u00a0lead.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that daylight saving is an outdated concept, that (in England at least) causes\u00a0disruption\u00a0twice a year for no real advantage. So, instead of moving forward yet another hour, I propose we stay on GMT indefinitely!<\/p>\n<h3>See also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-12849630\">A brief history of timezones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wondered around the house this morning\u00a0resetting\u00a0a plethora of clocks (two ovens, four heating themostats, two wall clocks in the childrens&#8217; bedrooms, fixed-line phone, two mobile phones, two cars &#8211; thankfully the computers, PVR, radio, some of the mobile phones and many other devices change themselves), I did have to wonder &#8220;what is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/10\/why-should-the-uk-move-to-gmt1-and-do-we-really-need-daylight-saving-time.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why should the UK move to GMT+1? 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