Radios used to automatically set the time by RDS or DAB, but they don't seem to be able to do it any more. Doesn't seem to get it from my phone either...

I remember the British 3 year experiment from 1968 when Daylight Saving ran year round. Apparently winter road casualties dropped by 11% over this period (17% in Scotland).

Apparently not enough of a reason to implement it permanently.

 

One job required me to develop a  spreadsheet that took account of the time on the central US based computer (which implemented Daylight Saving) that served the Australian operations.

Australia has three distinct time zones encompassing the six separately governed states, three of the states do not implement daylight savings and those that do are not necessarily executed on the same date.

Of course Northern and Southern Hemispheres DST changes are  in opposite directions.

 

My car does not have GPS and I thought ticking the DST option meant that it would change by 1 hour automatically itself and could not figure out how it could possibly know when an individual Australian state would choose to change. 

 

I now know that selecting DST merely changes the time by an hour so this thread has been a bit of an embarrassing  'bang palm of hand against forehead' moment for me.

"DOH"!!!

 

Edited 3 November, 20178 yr by Gerrycan

3 hours ago, Gerrycan said:

I remember the British 3 year experiment from 1968 when Daylight Saving ran year round. Apparently winter road casualties dropped by 11% over this period (17% in Scotland).

Apparently not enough of a reason to implement it permanently.

Me too, IIRC they abandoned the  experiment because they said Scots complained and it was less safe for English schoolchildren - well I was at school at the time and it made zero difference as I still left home in the dark and got back home in the dark.

 

A few years ago RoSPA re-analysed the accident data and came to the conclusion that staying on GMT+1 actually reduced accidents and injuries throughout the UK. Not surprising really as accidents are more likely in the evening when drivers are tired after a day at work.

 

IMHO we should be on CET i.e. GMT+1 in the Winter and GMT+2 in the Summer.

Most school kids are travelling between 8 and 9 am and between 3 and 4 pm. Both those periods are in daylight in winter for most of Britain on GMT. On GMT+1 most kids would be travelling to school in the dark in the middle of winter.

16 minutes ago, Rodge said:

Most school kids are travelling between 8 and 9 am and between 3 and 4 pm.

Do schools finish that early now then? When I was at school lessons finished at 4pm...