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In part because the population dose not agree on doing so.
Its been discussed in parliment several times over the decades. Each time the MPs realise voting to end it is voting for school children walking home in the dark through most of winter. So reject it.
That makes no sense. In Summer sunset is later than 8pm - how is removing BST going to wind that all the way back to 3pm?
You seems to fail to see how days work. Winter is much shorter days due to the way the earth is tipped. This has a much more drematic effect in other parts of the nation. Mainly north.
Clocks go back in winter. Where parts of the UK with the shortest days get dark in the early pm. So we make bst 4pm hit at 3pm In winter ensuring children are home before dark.. As the days get longer in summer we set it forward again to stop us haveing sunlight at 11pm in the part ofvthe UK with the longest days.
Remember before the railways standardised UK time in the 1800. Different cities set clocks to match their own midday. When the UK standardised to allow tail times to be managed. The whole nation using the same clock/time created odd issues with day time at the extreams.
Removing British Summer Time would leave GMT unchanged, so the clocks would be the same in Winter as they are now.
Leaving parts of the nation dark before 3pm in the middle of winter.
ok. Can you imagine any government in the g20 doing something on the scale of implementing daylight savings today?
Nope def not. I was not disagreeing with your point. Just the stupidity of daylight savings. As an old fart I've watched the subject come up every time. Folks rapidly realise it ain't so stupid when they realise the real reason we still do it.
Its just one of those things that makes me grin. Farmers claim cities need it urbanites think its for farmers. Yet it has always been about their kids not walking home at 3pm in the dark. Then a decade or so later the MPs forget about it and have another debate.
We have all grown so used to it we only remember the 2 annoying days a year .