Every year in Britain we have the debate about whether to keep DST (which we call 'British Summer Time' or revert to GMT (Greenwich meantime, also UTC or Zulu time) -- every year no decision is made. I understand that the 'original' reason for DST was so that farmworkers had more hours of daylight (ridiculous) and then in WWII was about saving electricity... Anyway, we have less than 2% of the population working on the land and lighting is probably the smallest cost of industry it all seems a bit of a fuss.
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Hi Terry,
thanks for this - made me smile.
Every year in Britain we have the debate about whether to keep DST (which we call 'British Summer Time' or revert to GMT (Greenwich meantime, also UTC or Zulu time) -- every year no decision is made. I understand that the 'original' reason for DST was so that farmworkers had more hours of daylight (ridiculous) and then in WWII was about saving electricity... Anyway, we have less than 2% of the population working on the land and lighting is probably the smallest cost of industry it all seems a bit of a fuss.
Hope you're fine?
regards,
Bob
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