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Reluctant Hero
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 Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:00 pm Post subject: Scottish Mean Time |
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Historian Alistair Horne has raised the annual issue of the changing of clocks (happens this weekend) and why our time is different to the rest of Europe.
He says Scotland could have it's own time zone, meaning we would be one hour different from the rest of the UK.
Would that work?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8321809.stm
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Fidget
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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Probably not, esle the SNP would be on it by now as another reason for independence.  |
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Reluctant Hero
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Fidget wrote: | | Probably not, esle the SNP would be on it by now as another reason for independence. |
There are more than enough reasons already 
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Fidget
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Na.. there's never enough. Auld Salmond must be slacking. |
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landg
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| i'm surprised this is not something salmons has jumped on with his scotland is different crusade. |
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Aventinian
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Personally I think it would probably be better all-round if the entire UK replaced GMT with British Summer Time, as it has experimented with in the past.
| Fidget wrote: | | Probably not, esle the SNP would be on it by now as another reason for independence. |
Well, plenty of countries have more than one time zone within them.
| landg wrote: | | i'm surprised this is not something salmons has jumped on with his scotland is different crusade. |
I'm not sure if the idea of leaping salmon was deliberate, but it makes for an amusing mental image. Still, you're quite correct on that one - I too am surprised. |
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Fidget
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| Aventinian wrote: | Personally I think it would probably be better all-round if the entire UK replaced GMT with British Summer Time, as it has experimented with in the past.
| Fidget wrote: | | Probably not, esle the SNP would be on it by now as another reason for independence. |
Well, plenty of countries have more than one time zone within them.
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I thought that the fact that we do adjust clocks was for the benefit of the northern regions, so doesn't that suggest that changing it would just undo that? |
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Aventinian
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Fidget wrote: | | I thought that the fact that we do adjust clocks was for the benefit of the northern regions, so doesn't that suggest that changing it would just undo that? |
Well, I assume you mean reverting to GMT - in which case it's not really changing as such, but rather returning to 'normal'.
I doubt GMT would have been abandoned yet even if the northern peripheries were not considered - even despite the reducing significance of Greenwich in international timekeeping, there is still a lot of historical significance attached to our time zone.
But yes, I suppose in practical terms early morning light in the far north is the only good argument for keeping GMT. That argument is less persuasive now than ever: farmers don't really need it anymore, schoolchildren apparently suffer just as much from darkness in during their walk from school and so forth. Plus, of course, would that issue not be better resolved by simply changing school opening hours?
It would seem that the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents supports us being an hour ahead, or at the very least believes in trialling it.
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