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Originally Posted by HarryT
Pretty much irrelevant when you're as far north as we are in the UK; it gets dark early no matter what. It's dark by about 3:30pm here in mid winter, so the hour's difference is really neither here nor there. There have been suggestions that we should stick to "summer time" all year round, but the objection is that children would then be going to school in the morning in the dark, especially in Scotland, and there are road-safety concerns about that.
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The same concern is voiced here as the reason for the changeover.
On t'other hand, if I'm going to be getting up in the dark no matter what, I'd rather have the light at the end of the day. The difference between being dark at 4:30 and dark at 5:30 is a critical one, IMO. Of course if I lived in the western part of the time zone, and the eastern time zone cuts a broad swath, I'd have that as a matter of course. There has been some suggestion that this neck of the woods should go on Atlantic time; much as I'd like that, it's not realistic that we be out of sync with New York.