Could Scotland get its own time zone?
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dailymail.co.ukPosted Oct 25, 2014, 3:30 PM UTC
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dailymail.co.ukWhat an absolute bunch of crap. This is just the daily fail scaremongering again, its not going to happen, and the government isn't even considering it.
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I find the whole clock moving thing to be a total waste of time
It helps in the winter for what 2 weeks? Then its back to pitch black in the morning and pitch black in the evening.
Even before the days get short enough for that to happen all your doing is moving the kids walking in the dark for school from the morning to the evening.
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To be fair, this isn't a new thing. They've been discussing this for decades with a trial time zone change conducted from 1968 to 1971.
It was a bloody failure. Imagine being in darkness still at 10am in the north.
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Is that really such a big deal?
The weather is so cloudy and the day so short that winter is practically sunless for anyone working in an office.
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It's a big deal when you live in the Highlands and street lights don't exactly litter the landscape. Farmers have got to work, kids have got to go to school etc. Deaths increased during that time period through the combination of winter weather and darkness during normal working hours.
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Please don't mind the questions, they are out of ignorance.
I don't understand how much Highland farmers involve themselves in the winter. From my experiences winter has largely involved inside work. What exactly increases their danger?
Also, am I right to understand that Highland school goers are expected to walk to school?
If we were talking about the properly rural villages I grew up in, horse carts and all, I could picture a multitude of accident, but since I haven't visited the Highlands and Islands, I assumed that industrialization has graced them somewhat.
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Meh. Changing the clock doesn't actually change the movement of the sun. Farmers can just set their alarm an hour earlier if they want to, and schools can start at 8AM.
Farmers comprise a tiny, tiny proportion of the workforce, we had an industrial revolution and everything. I don't understand why we all have to live in misery for their slight convenience.
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My area is basically in Darkness until 08:30-09:00 in mid winter anyway.
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No. Putting the clocks back is just as annoying in Scotland as it is in England. Total misery descends every year when they put it back, wish they would stop it.
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Those comments on the article, the DM crowd are really grasping at straws to attack the EU.
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fewer timezones is better
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Headlines to which the answer is no...
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Could we rename GMT to Govan Mean Time? 'Cause I might be all for that.
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UTC -20 years?
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Better together...
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We really should all switch to UTC. http://www.vox.com/2014/8/5/5970767/case-against-time-zones