Double Summertime? Discuss!

Right, just thought it would be fun to see people's thoughts on the proposed 'double summertime' - Discuss!

Personally, I think its hard enough in the winter.  Here in the north pole, that would mean the sun doesn't rise until 10 am in the winter! Yikes!  Then in the summer, it would be 11:30 pm before the sun sets. Which there's something strange about going to bed when its still very light out. 

This gets proposed every couple of years, but hasn't happened yet, so I'm pretty doubtful that anything will come of it this time. Being down south, I don't suppose the change would be as drastic for us as it would be for you, so I don't really have a strong opinion. But I still don't think it'll happen.

Right, just thought it would be fun to see people's thoughts on the proposed 'double summertime' - Discuss!

Personally, I think its hard enough in the winter.  Here in the north pole, that would mean the sun doesn't rise until 10 am in the winter! Yikes!  Then in the summer, it would be 11:30 pm before the sun sets. Which there's something strange about going to bed when its still very light out. 

I chose "What's the point?", but I'm with you.  You have it a bit worse than us being that you're farther North, but I have enough trouble getting to sleep in the summer because of the sun being out for so long.  I can't imagine what I would do if it was out even later.  And I need all the sun I can get in the winter!

Can someone explain what it means? I'm not quite sure I understand.

We get little enough daylight in winter without making sunrise later.  It would mean I'd walk to work with two littleuns (dropping baby off at Grandma's en route) in the dark every winter day.  Plus can you imagine trying to get kids to sleep at a reasonable hour on school nights when the sun doesn't set until so late???

If, and as others have pointed out, that is a big if, it was decided to move to double summertime, I don't see why Scotland would have to do it.  Arizona never moves to Daylight Savings time.  So, half the year they are the same time zone as Pacific and half the year as Mountain.  There are even a couple of states where part of the state is in one time zone and half is in another.

I don't want it to happen. I don't mind so much about the mornings because I'll be starting work early anyway, but it would mean having to work even later night shifts-at the moment I'll have to work until 2.30am in the summer anyway, but with double summer time I'd be there until at least 3.30am (night flying wouldn't even start until midnight, whereas this week it starts at 6.30pm and finishes at 10.30pm)!

Gibby, it's a proposal to move the UK to the same time zone as Western Europe, so in the winter we'd be on the same time as BST (British Summer Time, ie daylight savings) and in the summer DST (Double Summer Time, ie BST+1, ie GMT+2).

I am very much against it. I find it hard enough to get up in the winter, and it would still be dark leaving work anyway, so it wouldn't improve anything in Scotland (and I believe when they did the original trials all the road traffic benefits were down south, not up here). I wouldn't mind Scotland and even northern England being on a different time zone from the south, but there seems to be a strange aversion to splitting up time zones here despite it being the norm in a lot of countries.

I wouldnt like it.
One of the perks of living here is the 10pm sunsets and being in a beer garden till wee late because of it. Putting our clocks fwd 2 hrs because of it, would ruin all the up sides of what there is of a British summer

Meh.     It's already hard enough waking up in the winter.  No need to make it worse.

Kerri, I don't get it. Putting the clocks ahead 2 hours means longer evenings, no sunset until 11pm. Aren't you saying that you like the long evenings?

Tired people getting up earlier to drive to work in the dark. I predict accidents.

I'm down south and not for it...it is difficult enough to get the 7 year old to sleep in the summer as it is. 
Plus walking in the dark to school on winter mornings does not appeal at all. 

Kerri, I don't get it. Putting the clocks ahead 2 hours means longer evenings, no sunset until 11pm. Aren't you saying that you like the long evenings?

I think my just woke up head made a mistake. Dur.
I stand corrected.

Oh don't get me started on this!
It's a completely stupid idea. They want to put us on CET (Central European Time), we are where we are on the planet, the Greenwich Meridian (the arbiter of time) is here, to think that we have the Greenwich Meridian and yet not to have GMT is preposterous!
This would put us on the same time as the Czech Republic, time zones are there for a reason, the fact that the French and Spanish, on the same longitude as us, are on CET is irrelevent, just means they are wrong!

Oh and it also means we'd be a further hour on from the US so watching NFL would be harder!