Topic: Summer Time

[tim]

Summer time - you have to be joking??

[kt.]

Can't see why it has to change every year.   Apparently Jesus died on the Friday and rose on the Sunday.   I am sure these dates do not and cannot be changed. Nobody can die on a different day each year.... can they?   If they can, then why do we have Christmas on the same date each year?   They should just pick a date and leave it at that.

[springbok]

The reason it changes each years is because of the different calenders over time.

Found this bit of history which might explain why its different every year :).

However, I thought the clocks always went forward the last saturday in March, so how has that changed?? 

History of working out easter dates.

Easter Sunday is the date of the annual celebration of Christ's resurrection.   The aim of the Easter Dating Method is to maintain, for each Easter Sunday, the same season of the year and the same relationship to the preceding astronomical full moon that occurred at the time of his resurrection in 30 A.D.

This was achieved in 1583 A.D. using skill and common-sense by Pope Gregory the 13th, and his astronomers and mathematicians, predominantly Lilius and Clavius, by introducing their new larger (revised) PFM Gregorian dates table.   This replaced the (original) 326 A.D. "19 PFM dates" table in the Julian calendar.

Easter Sunday, from 326 A.D., is always one of the 35 dates March 22 to April 25.

From 31 A.D. to 325 A.D. Easter Day was celebrated either:
(a) on or just after the first day of the Jewish Passover (no matter on which day of the week that Easter Day occurred), or
(b) on a Sunday close to or on the first Passover Day.
Both of these methods existed continuously throughout this period.

From 326 A.D. to 1582 A.D. Easter Sunday date was based on the Julian calendar in use at that time.   It became defined as the Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon date for the year, using a simple "19 PFM dates" table.   Precise information on this subject can be found on pages 415 to 425 of the Explanatory Supplement to the 1961 Astronomical Ephemeris.

The Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian calendar in October 1582 to re-align March 20 (and therefore Easter) with the seasons by removing 10 dates October 5 to 14, 1582.   This replacement did not occur until later in many countries e.g. in September 1752 in England.

[tim]

You don't have to die just because it's Summer Time?

[redimp]

The Easter and Christmas dates are directly as a result of early Christian marketing.  Rather than converting the pagans who were in tune with nature and into sustainable living, they thought, lets nick and rename their festivals and say "Look, your all Christians now.  You can start worshipping material goods and screwing up the planet and its all right, you can fess up once a week and you will be forgiven" ;D

Just joking guys (oops some of you don't like that do you?) apart from the dates bit which is totally true ;D

[Lauren S]

Didn''t they have double summer time savings during the war?. I cannot imagine what that would be like.  ::)

[aromatic]

 ;D
Came across this bit of information which I thought was rather interesting.... ahh well just think we will be basking in sunshine soon!!**!!

Summer time all year round?Some people advocate that summer time is kept all year round but this is opposed by other groups on the grounds that in the north this would have social disadvantages including, for instance, the problem that in the far north-west of Scotland sunrise would occur at about 10.00 in the middle of winter and over much of the north small children would have to travel to/from school in darkness.

Many countries around the world use daylight saving time, including the USA, Russia, most of Europe and the Commonwealth.

The main reasons given for the use of summer time are the saving in power given by the longer hours of daylight in the evenings and the increased useful daylight leisure time available to those who work.

[Jeannine]

Some countries have started to give it up.. moving the clocks that is.

[redimp]

Some countries have started to give it up.. moving the clocks that is.

Must make the dusting difficult ;D

[tim]

Hope you all remembered?

[betula]

Yes we remembered,husband off to Wembley this morning ;D

[redimp]

Yes we remembered,husband off to Wembley this morning ;D

Cod or Franchise?

[betula]

GRIMSBY ........................poor lad was a bag of nerves when I waved him off ;D ;D ;D

[redimp]

Good luck to them :-X Hope they thrash the fake football team. ;D

PS - we'll have six points of you lot next year ;)

[betula]

Thanks for the good wishes,I pray they win.He gets so emotional at these  times ;D ;D ;D

[Hyacinth]

You don't have to die just because it's Summer Time?

Still sniggering at this ;D

Flip, the gales here last night. :o  I was going round altering clocks and the wind was howling like a banshee and rattling window catches...thought it was Tim's Bigfoot having a night out in the Big City ;D