Two thing I want to say about "Daylight Saving" - one comment, and one
question.

First, I hate the idea of changing the clocks forward and back.
Theoretically, when the sun is at its highest in the sky that's called
midday - 12 noon.  Why can't we accept that?  It feels wrong to call it 1 pm
in the summer and 12 noon in the winter.  I went to shool in Edinburgh
(south east of Scotland) and the short daylight hours were just a fact of
life - Summer Time didn't make any difference to how few hours of daylight
we got.  And I know some time zones are wide enough to make 12 noon happen
when the sun is a bit off-centre, but that's a social arrangement and I can
see the sense there.  My cheap rate electricity (Economy 7, or some such
name) comes from 12 midnight to 7 am in the winter, and isn't adjusted at
all, so in the summer the clocks say it comes from 1 am to 8 am.  Maybe we
could adjust working hours, like that, instead of making our clocks lie.
Just joking - it'd never work.  8-(

Second - please would someone remind me (I think I once knew) what rules
govern the dates for starting and ending Summer Time?  I know they are
different in different countries, or regions of countries, but my PC knows
when to change so there must be rules ... but what?

BFN,
Margery.

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