I hate it when the clocks go back

[klondike]

fair point - but I presumed Ashy meant back from GMT

We never put the clocks back from GMT and never have. Ashy said nothing about putting the clocks back at all.

[1955vintage]

My dog hates it more, she has to wait an extra hour before feeding.

[Ashy]

What I meant was put the clock forward to GMT +2 hours and leave them there.

There is nothing absurd about having two time zones if the Scots want it different, the USA has 6 time zones and Canada has 9 zones, some of which do daylight saving and some don't.

We only adopted common time because the railways used it, and they probably still would.

[Michael Rolls]

Canada and the USA use different time zones because they are such enormous countries, and their zones are based on longitude, not latitude. Solar noon in New York, for example, is nine in the morning in Los Angeles. For businesses different time zones can be a damn nuisance

[Ashy]

For businesses different time zones can be a damn nuisance

I bet they can. However I would point out that we change the clocks to BST in summer for political reasons, not because the island has moved.

[Michael Rolls]

the tree huggers are doubtless working on it!

[Ashy]