Saturday night, Sunday morning

[caddyman]

It is just before midnight as I start typing and I shall be having a shower and going to bed shortly as we lose an hour tonight with the onset of British Summer Time and I am already quite tired enough, thank you, without the psychological baggage that comes with reading a clock that tells me that I am up an hour later than I should be!

There are no two ways about it: when I rule the world, the clock, if it moves at all, will go back twenty-three hours in the Spring and we shall all have an extra day off. Or we could spend twenty-three weeks putting them forward an hour each week, have three weeks of undisturbed timekeeping before spending another twenty-three putting them back. That would leave us with three weeks of summer time and three on GMT. I realise that it is rather pointless, but all mad dictators should do something potty and I think that this approach may well be unique. One for the history books.

We watched The Simpsons Movie tonight. Some good snippets, but overall it's not very good, is it? Still, it passed some time while we sat and digested a very tasty steak dinner.

Comments

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a reason for daylight savings, but it does seem a bit pointless to me. Sometimes it throws my already dodgy sleep patterns out of whack, so I'm not a fan. When I get to rule the universe, it'll be abolished, so maybe I'll be a slightly less unpopular mad dictator than you, until I abolish hip-hop and liver-&-onions.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

The idea is not to waste the vast amounts of daylight available in the morning for much of the year and have at the end of the day when people can use it best instead of sleeping through it - in the middle of summer it still gets light just after 3am in these parts!

I doubt it makes much difference to a very early riser like you, though.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

In '95, I went back to Blighty for my sister's wedding, and was surprised that I'd forgotten that it stays light until about 10pm in the summer. I'd only been away for five years.

Here, it gets dark at about 8pm in midsummer, and at about five in midwinter.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that we are quite away further north than you are! Still not quite like Stockholm though. I was over there in July a few years back and it didn't get dark until just before midnight and was full daylight again just after 2am.

Of course, it's a bit different in mid winter when there is about 90 minutes of daylight around lunchtime!

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Yes, this was in Newport.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well don't forget that Newport is on approximately the same latitude as the north tip of Newfoundland, while you live on or about the same latitude as Tripoli in Libya. That's about 1,350 miles further north than you. No wonder the summer days are longer around here.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Yes. One is so conscious of the five thousand mile distance between California and Britain, and the eight time zones, that one doesn't consider how much further south we are. I'll have to see which point on the coast above us is equivalent to London's position.