Fine Gael Call For Longer Summer : Irish National News
Fine Gael's David Stanton said he has been campaigning on the matter for several years.
"I will be writing again to the European Commission asking them to consider this issue. After all, having more summertime is very hard to argue against"
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It wont prevent many road accidents when people are fiddling with their clocks going over the border, or people have to get up an hour earlier to travel north.
Abstinence makes the Church grow fondlers.
if anything, it probably makes sense to move to CET. In would have huge benefits to farmers (especially in the summer when it is bright at4.30am). Only issue would be health and safety in December/January where the rush hour and kids going to school in the dark
Changing makes no sense at all. The time differential between sun set in West Kerry and East Anglia is about 50 minutes, If anything it points to the island of Ireland's true time setting an hour behind Great Britain's. Rather than going an hour forward we should be going an hour back if anything!
The winter is dark and dreary no matter what way you look at it. Most of us are getting up in the dark and going home in the dark, we are like flippin mushrooms for 3 solid months at least.
Anyone who would object to a longer summer, and a shorter winter needs their head examined. I understand that it may not be as simple as it sounds, but why not try it out? With all the awful stuff facing us on the economy etc. a bit of light might help.
The EU appears not to be biting on this one. However, I notice when I am abroad (Spain) in the Winter (November and January), sunset is much later than it is in Ireland. I often wondered why this was so. It would appear that longer days are OK in the Med region, but not for us on the edge of the Atlantic.
I believe it's called latitude.Originally Posted by asset test
Ha ha, Ok. But why is it then, that sunset in Ireland in Summer is much later than further East, but not in Winter? Latitude again I suppose or something. I may be dim, but I think you will be able to answer me. Cheers
The closer you go to the equator, then the less the length of the day changes throughout the year. At the equator, you get 12 hours of day and 12 hours night all year round. So, our days are longer than Spain in the Summer, but shorter in Winter.
There was a very funny discussion of this subject on Joe Duffy during the week. People were recalling when Summer time was brought in first, a lot of people didn't accept it, and you had basically two different time systems in use (old time and new time). Apparently, funeral announcements and the like, would often have the abbreviation (ot) or (nt) in the paper so people would know it was old time or new time. Other people talked about towns being split, so that one half would be on old time and the other half on new time. Then some people, phoned in to say, they still don't bother to change their clocks.
I suppose the moral of it is, there's nothing to stop people from doing what they want, with the present system. So, why bother changing it ?
Will it still cheaper to go to Newry?
I blame the government and in particular Minister Coughlan who I believe is responble for this area!
and still as treasonous if you listen to Fine Gael and Fianna Fail who need to set their clocks forward about 87 yearsWill it still cheaper to go to Newry?
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