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29-02-2008, 07:03 PM
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| | | Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
I know it's the wrong to talk about the clocks going back and there may have been a thread about this before.
When the clocks do go back in October it means everyone has to come home from work and put lights on. I wonder if they were left alone how much energy would be saved.
In the morning most people get up after first light, therefore would be asleep instead of turning lights on.
Would it make much difference? |
29-02-2008, 07:09 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
No, probably not.
But it's still a damned good idea!  Quote:
Originally Posted by hobble  I know it's the wrong to talk about the clocks going back and there may have been a thread about this before.
When the clocks do go back in October it means everyone has to come home from work and put lights on. I wonder if they were left alone how much energy would be saved.
In the morning most people get up after first light, therefore would be asleep instead of turning lights on.
Would it make much difference? | |
29-02-2008, 07:15 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
I thought it was a good idea, maybe some clever mathematician could work it out. I just feel I have suddenly been forced into turning lights on in the evening, and until end Nov don't need any on in the morning. There must be a saving of energy somewhere......? |
29-02-2008, 07:27 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
man what time you get up in november most people i now get up in thge dark go home in thedark  |
29-02-2008, 07:32 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
Up at 7.30, work at 9am home by 4.30pm.
Admit I am lucky as I walk to work, so commute time 5 minutes.........
I am thinking more about people at home, taking children to school maybe or those who don't have to be up really early. |
29-02-2008, 08:48 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
Seems to have some advocates elsewhere in the world. I'd like it too! BBC NEWS | Americas | US time switch set to save energy
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29-02-2008, 09:49 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
The common argument is that people in the North find the longer morning light is better as children going to school have a lighter morning. The one solution I have never seen advocated is, couldn't we move the winter time in at either end to give a shorter time of perpetual night for some of the country. |
01-03-2008, 01:37 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
I see absolutely no point in changing the clocks twice a year. Any effect on daylight only lasts for a week or 10 days anyway. What we should continue is the experiment we had some years ago when the clocks remained at BST all year round. As I'm up at 6.30 and leave work at 5.30, it's always dark for me in the winter months anyway. |
01-03-2008, 05:38 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
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Originally Posted by richardkm
.................... As I'm up at 6.30 and leave work at 5.30, it's always dark for me in the winter months anyway.
| So you leave work an hour before you get up? - my thats' a tough way to earn a living!
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03-03-2008, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by RobSutton So you leave work an hour before you get up? - my thats' a tough way to earn a living! | Aye, and I'm lucky compared to my father - so he used to tell me - he worked in't pit and used to live with his 15 brothers and sisters in a shoe box at bottom of septic tank!!!!!  |
03-03-2008, 01:30 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
Are we the only country that changes the clocks???? |
03-03-2008, 04:25 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
I have always thought how daft it is keep putting clocks backwards and forwards,i dont see the point myself,when did this all start anyway ? |
03-03-2008, 06:52 PM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
I think it started in the early 1900,s, I am not sure but it was to make sure farm workers were able to work in daylight early in the morning.
Lots of countries still change their clocks, which makes for interesting travel times.........
Personally I love the leap forward, lots more time outside after work and dread the way they go backwards in Autumn.
Congratulations Naturelover on all those posts and your new birds. |
04-03-2008, 08:33 AM
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| | | Re: Would leaving the clocks alone save energy?
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Originally Posted by hobble I think it started in the early 1900,s, I am not sure but it was to make sure farm workers were able to work in daylight early in the morning. | I don't really see the point in it for farmers. What difference would it make to them if they were up at 6.00am or 7.00am. It doesn't change the amount of daylight hours.
Was it not changed for the sake of schoolchildren, to enable them to go to school in daylight???? but then they come home in the dark  | | |
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