From: Bert 
Newsgroups: uk.adverts.computer uk.finance uk.people.consumers.ebay uk.telecom.broadband uk.telecom.mobile
Subject: Re: Whoops.. Don't forget to put the clocks back
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:03:08 +0100

Ivor Jones said:
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> [snip]
> 
> > I'd rather have an extra hour of light in the evening,
> > I'm all for moving to CET/CEST.  As for Scotland there is
> > no reason that they couldn't if they wished remain on the
> > current time, I have nothing against Scottish people as
> > they are human just like most of us, plus some of my
> > family are Scottish, also I never have any problems when
> > I'm up there in the cold, dark extremes of Scotland.
> 
> But you don't *get* an "extra" hour of light..! The amount of daylight in 
> any given day is not determined by a clock..!

Surely you realise people are referring to an extra hour of light at the 
end of the clock marked day rather than at the beginning and that they 
do actually appreciate that fiddling with this marking of the passage of 
time does not actually create or destroy day light. :-)

> That "extra" hour you want in the evening is there, but it's in the 
> morning, while you're lying in bed. Get up earlier and go to bed earlier; 
> start school/work at 8 instead of 9 or whatever it is. Problem solved.

In the morning few of us can make good use of it so it is wasted.

> Think about it; what did people do before clocks were invented..? They got 
> up when the sun rose and went to bed when it set.

I think you are confusing people having clocks with them having access 
to artificial light.