I might be alone in being excited about an extra hour of daylight tomorrow evening
@tryst ....oh god, right, I forgot the clock-fuckening was upon us. So soon?!
@tryst Nope I am pumped to not be commuting in the dark
@tryst The higher the latitude, the more important it is. I’m only at 47.7°N and I can barely take the dark winters.
@tilton 52.9N here. People oft forget just how northerly the UK is!
@tryst It is up there. I live about as far north as you can possibly live in the continental United States, and we're about a degree south of the latitude of Paris. It's weird!
@tilton Things would be a lot colder up here without the North Atlantic Current
@tryst Here we're almost 15 minutes behind London, but I think I'd still be happier with the civil clock on GMT+1 all year round. Then again I'm not great at getting up early, so I get not a lot from the lighter mornings in winter, but the darker afternoons are a bummer.
@tryst Erf. I *HATE* the DST changes, either way. They leave me feeling jet-lagged (without the questionable benefit of having travelled thousands of miles) *every* time. :/
@hrrunka UK civil time should be UTC+1 all year round
@tryst Yep. With you on that (though most of my astronomer friends would seem to prefer it on UTC+0)...
@hrrunka I have a degree in astrionics and I prefer UTC+1. I also get unreasonably snippy about the difference between GMT and UTC X)
@tryst Yeah. :) Past President (now long dead) of my then-local astronomical society spent most of his working life at the Greenwich Observatory at Greenwich and then Herstmonceux, and made the last recorded official transit timings on the Airy Transit Instrument. He was a stickler for the GMT/UTC (and other) differences, and for using the correct names in different circumstances. ;)