Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "When will the EU end seasonal clock changes? Only time will tell." video.

The UK should keep GMT all the year.
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So the die on the dark winter mornings.
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@tahmidabdin4625 and in the north of the UK, it would not be daylight until lunch time. Better for the UK to stick to GMT which is practically identical to UTC. Changing the clocks may not create more daylight, but it moves around on the clock what daylight there is to have.
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@antonysmyth2464 the reports conclusions are unlikely to still apply, given that UK school hours have been changed, moved from an 9 o'clock start to 8 o'clock. You have still not explained why dark mornings should be safer than dark nights This is not really about safety, but about moving to European time. There are not few hours of daylight, it is just when the hours of daylight are reported by the clock. Global time is divided up naturally by lines of longitude that define the hour time zones. The UK defines a reference by setting the Greenwich meridian. Logically time in the UK is set by this meridian, defining GMT. There is no reason why the citizens of the UK need to modify this system to provide adequate daylight for their activities. They are perfectly free to get up at a particular time, go to work at a time that suits their employer, and spend their leisure time when they like. So rather than campaigning to stop accidents by changing the time on the clock, it would be far better to simply change when these activities take place, as has happened with school daily start and end times. In fact such staggering of activities would greatly improve road safety by spreading the rush hour over a wider time period, with fewer people traveling at the same time. Your obsession with moving the clock time away from that defined by the UK longitude is therefore a nonsense. Modern life is now run 24 hours a day. The 19rh century need for a 9am to 5pm synchronised working day, no longer exists, as is evident by modern factory shift patterns, of 6am till 2pm, 2pm till 10pm and 10pm till 6am.
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@ShrunkedDude I have had further thoughts on this. I think we should keep GYM as that is directly related to the longitude of the UK. As longitude divides the earth into 24 hour sections. There is then nothing to stop those who wish rising one hour earlier if they wish. I suspect the change to permanent British summer time is purely politically motivated, something to do with being in sync with European time. The physical relationship with longitude makes far more sense.
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@tahmidabdin4625 are you being deliberate obtuse, the time of sunrise and sunset are reported by the clock, it is the interval inbetween that is fixed by nature.
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@antonysmyth2464 there is no evidence that the numbers killed would be different in the morning to the evening, both periods have a rush hour. It seems unlikely that industry would decide to start work at lunch time simple to accommodate the dark mornings. I think you will find government's select time zones to maximise working hours, not leisure time.
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@ShrunkedDude the globe is divided into 24 more or less equally spaced hour angles. For historic reasons Greenwich is on the zero longitude meridian. It therefore makes sense to use this time in the UK, particularly as for all practical purposes GMT and UTC are the same. Those who wish to adopt Be are suggesting it for political reasons, not really for safety. In fact the safety argument is spurious, since where there might be safety concerns all that is required is to redefine opening or working hours. Certainly there is no reason why schools could not change their hours to reflect whatever is considered safe. Moving their opening hours forward by an hour on the GMT time reference. If they want to open at 8am GMT instead of 9am GMT, it is their choice, but children will be going to school in the dark. One advantage of not using GMT all year around, is that it will naturally result in a staggering of traffic rush hour, as each organisation decides if it wants work hours to be advanced in summer, or maybe all the year around.
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