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On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:20:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > No it wouldn't - DST makes it darker in the morning. When I was about |
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> > 11, the government experimented with using BST all year round. One of |
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> > the reasons given for not doing it was that kids would have to go to |
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> > school in the dark. |
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> ... and the children's accident rate in Scotland shot up. |
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They have re-examined the data and found that that was not necessarily |
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true. While the accident rate in the morning did go up, the afternoon |
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rate went down by more, because drivers are more alert in the morning so |
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cope with the darkness better. |
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It wasn't only Scotland, in fact they aren't affected that much anyway. I |
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worked in Dundee one December and it was dark until almost 10am, without |
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DST. When they trialled winter DST, I was going to school in the dark in |
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London. |
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> And what is this idea of saving daylight? Only an American could |
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> conceive of such a nonsense (I hope). |
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It was the Germans, during WW1, quickly copied by Britain. The idea was |
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to improve the productivity of the factories. And you are saving |
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daylight, you are saving up an hour of daylight that you would otherwise |
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sleep through and spending it at a more suitable time a few hours later. |
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No one suggested a Daylight Bank :-O |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Mouse: (n.) an input device used by management to force computer users to |
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keep at least a part of their desks clean. |
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