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Sparrow · 10-31-2009, 04:23 PM

In the UK the clocks changed last week - people in the north like it, although there are always efforts to do away with it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8321809.stm
"A prominent historian has called for the UK to adopt the same time zone as the rest of central Europe, leaving Scotland to its own "tundra time"...
Sir Alistair, who said he was 99% Scottish, said the rest of the UK should not lose an hour of evening daylight just because Scottish farmers did not want to milk in the dark."

10-31-2009, 04:23 PM	#3
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	In the UK the clocks changed last week - people in the north like it, although there are always efforts to do away with it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8321809.stm "A prominent historian has called for the UK to adopt the same time zone as the rest of central Europe, leaving Scotland to its own "tundra time"... Sir Alistair, who said he was 99% Scottish, said the rest of the UK should not lose an hour of evening daylight just because Scottish farmers did not want to milk in the dark."