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Re: Sun Rise

To: NKED65A@prodigy.com, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Sun Rise
From: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 96 20:21:47 GMT
>Can Someone in GB please advise me as to what time the sun rises and
>sets this time of year.  Would there be much difference  in the 
>times between London and Edinburgh ?

Don't know the official times but here in the Midlands it is about 
0730 and 1600.  I think Scotland gets an hour or two less daylight, 
which is why the experiment of keeping to Summer Time all year round 
was abandoned.  I understand some people in Scotland claimed that 
there was an increase in accidents involving children in the 
mornings, which seems fair enough, but less so if the counter-claim 
that they were more than outweighed by the reductions in accidents to 
children in the evenings is equally true.

BTW, Autumn 1996 saw the whole of Europe change its clocks on the 
same day for the first time, after 17 years on negotiations.  Now 
France has announced that they are to remain on Summer Time all year 
round.  It was France that introduced changing the clocks in the 
first place.

I was surprised to discover that the USA changes its clocks, why?  
Its northern border is further south than the southern border of 
England, which has no need for daylight reasons.


PaulH
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