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Interestingly, ROSPA has been campaigning for a number of years for a permanent change to the UK's summer and winter time changes...

http://www.rospa.com/lighterevenings/index.asp

I hate the dark evenings - for me, that is the only downside of winter as I love the cold and the change in season, just hate the dark!  However, I wouldn't want it dark in the mornings with the kids going to school.  Being in a village we have very little street lighting - which is great as we do not suffer from light pollution, but I wouldn't like to send my little urchins into the playground in the dawn gloom - infact, I don't think they would go!!  Mum remembers in the '70's when the clocks didn't change and she remember there were alsorts of accidents and horrid things happening to kids enroute to school.

I quite like dark evenings and the changes in the seasons. My other half hates it. He works shifts and sometimes has to work the extra hour. sometimes he works an hour less so itall pans out in the end.  You can't please everyone all the time!!!

Is this the same sort of time zoning they tried when I was a kid in the 60's???
OR is that the other way round???( easily confused!!)
I recall going to school in the dark at 8.30am ish.
I thought that it was deemed to be unsafe -esp for school kids, going to school in the dark with rush-hour traffic!
Oh well ..I suppose that's what they do in Scandanavia!
If it's the other way round then cn't really see a problem withthat!!