Tryst 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪  23h ago
I might be alone in being excited about an extra hour of daylight tomorrow evening
Show threadRick19h ago
@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.
Show threadRick
@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. :/
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Show threadTryst 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪  9h ago
@hrrunka UK civil time should be UTC+1 all year round
Show threadRick9h ago
@tryst Yep. With you on that (though most of my astronomer friends would seem to prefer it on UTC+0)...
Show threadTryst 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪  9h ago
@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)
Show threadRick9h ago
@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. ;)