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On 27/04/2013 03:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here |
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>>> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow |
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>>> and in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would |
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>>> have helped. |
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>> No it wouldn't - DST makes it darker in the morning. When I was about 11, |
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>> the government experimented with using BST all year round. One of the |
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>> reasons given for not doing it was that kids would have to go to school |
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>> in the dark. |
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> ... and the children's accident rate in Scotland shot up. |
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> And what is this idea of saving daylight? Only an American could conceive of |
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> such a nonsense (I hope). |
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It's not saving daylight, taken literally it's a misnomer. |
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"Daylight Savings" is just easier to say and get an acronym for than |
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"Having more of the hours in a day when you are up awake and trying to |
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do work happen when it's light rather than dark" |
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Alan McKinnon |
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