British Winter Time
I'm feeling really gloomy today. The only obvious reason is the clocks going forward. I hate this. Why should we spend half the day in the dark? What's the point? Who benefits? The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
believes that British Summer Time should be two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and the rest of the year one hour ahead of GMT. Apparently during the last war they had Daylight Saving Time which did something similar
and I have a hazy recollection from my Primary School days of walking to school in the dark one year as part of some experiment in DST.
If it's a big problem for people in Scotland, why can't they have their own local time - Scottish Mean Time? (ha-bloody-ha). We all had local time until the railways joined the country together and timetables needed to be
standardized. Seeing as the rail system is crumbling, lets have local time back and put an end to Seasonal Affective Disorder and misery for us all.