Back in the sixties or seventies, GB went on year round daylight savings, with double daylight savings in summer. This was so they would be at the same time as most of Western Europe. The result and reason they quit doing it: more school children were getting killed by traffic on the way to school in the dark.
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Date: 2007-05-21 02:18 pm (UTC)Back in the sixties or seventies, GB went on year round daylight savings, with double daylight savings in summer. This was so they would be at the same time as most of Western Europe. The result and reason they quit doing it: more school children were getting killed by traffic on the way to school in the dark.
I wonder if this was even considered.