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baggywrinkle

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PeterCPC

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In some ways I feel like "heads down till spring", or on the other hand it's "get the scope out earlier".

I'm not sure about the justification for these changes but I would rather leave it alone and not bother.

Could not agree more. I see that there is now a discussion about moving to Central European Time. Ahhh!

Peter

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DazC

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I was up and out with the scope at 4.30 this morning.

Not sure i'll be up for it tomorrow morning, but I could do some tea time tomorrow night if the skies are clear.

I love looking at jupiter and the orion nebula, but love them more before bedtime!

Bring on winter.

D.C

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jamespels

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Could not agree more. I see that there is now a discussion about moving to Central European Time. Ahhh!

Peter

CET? Yay. And it will only cost us €2Bn for the privilege.

No real preference either way on the times, other than no changing them would mean two days a year where I am not consistently late / early... but not CET, please! That would be like admitting to the French that they were right about the prime meridian!

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D4N

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Originally the idea was to save fuel but as you said it stuck. CET would certainly be the wrong time zone for the UK, who wants midday at 2pm?

The main reason for not abolishing BST seems to be the confusion it would cause with Europe. Remember that although we are an hour out of sync many European countries work 0800 to 1600 instead of 0900 to 1700 so we actually have the same working hours.

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tekkydave

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Originally the idea was to save fuel but as you said it stuck. CET would certainly be the wrong time zone for the UK, who wants midday at 2pm?

The main reason for not abolishing BST seems to be the confusion it would cause with Europe. Remember that although we are an hour out of sync many European countries work 0800 to 1600 instead of 0900 to 1700 so we actually have the same working hours.

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That's a good point, and how many countries in the world don't have daylight saving? This debate comes round twice every year in my living memory and it never leads anywhere. If it ain't broke leave it alone.

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bejay1957

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Could not agree more. I see that there is now a discussion about moving to Central European Time. Ahhh!

Peter

Seems to have been in proposal for a long time, but its a disingenuous argument since we would still have daylight saving with CET

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Saganite

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In total agreement with DazC! However............

I awoke and looked out of the bedroom window at 4.30' ish  this morning, saw Magnificent Orion opposite,

and decided that there was enough time to get the scope out and cooled, but perhaps 5 more minutes.....

Five minutes later, 2 hours had passed and I had missed it!

Bring on Tea time observing.

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gkec

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That's a good point, and how many countries in the world don't have daylight saving? This debate comes round twice every year in my living memory and it never leads anywhere. If it ain't broke leave it alone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country#mediaviewer/File:DST_Countries_Map.png

As would be expected very few equatorial countries have daylight saving time.

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gkec

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Can someone tell our four week old this cos I'm sure he will not have got the memo....

Incidentally tomorrow is national sleep in day as well!

I tried explaining to a four year old about the extra hour and how he could stay in bed longer.  I was sat watching TV when I heard sobbing.  I turned to him and asked whatever was the matter.  He replied between sobs  "The extra hour?  Has it got shark teeth and big eyes?"

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JamesF

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country#mediaviewer/File:DST_Countries_Map.png

As would be expected very few equatorial countries have daylight saving time.

Nor Russia, any more, it seems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29773559

The positive side of GMT for me is that my watch will read the correct time again.  I can never be bothered to change it.

James

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Scooot

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This post had me startled for a minute. After looking into it you guys across the pond change tonight. Ours doesn't "fall back" till November 2.

It's always the last Saturday night in October here, a bit earlier this year as next weekend's November.

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Ptarmigan

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D4N >"The main reason for not abolishing BST seems to be the confusion it would cause with Europe."

And we would not wish confusion upon Europe, would we :) ?
If the main reason for BST was to keep step with our major trading partners does that mean we will soon be on Guandong or Peking time ? :)

Kirskovich > "Ours doesn't "fall back" till November 2."

I may be wrong but I think I remember this as one of our (UK)  few little victories over the EU, we persuaded "them" to adopt our change-over time !
I'm not talking about the Greenwich-Paris Meridien thing  business !

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