One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:20 pm
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One less hour in bed tonight...
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Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:51 pm
Begs the question in this day & age "why" ????????
Shane
Shane
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 6:43 pm
Simple, Shane. In Winter, with 8 hours of daylight available (at least here in UK @ 52ºN), we don't want our kids either going to, or coming home from, school in pitch darkness.
Similarly, in Summer, we don't want kids playing out in the street at 11pm in broad daylight, when we're trying to get to sleep, do we?
In the northern hemisphere, the further South you go (towards the Equator), then the less of an issue these factors become, like in Cyprus @ 32ºN. But Cyprus probably wishes to align its time with that of Greece...
AL
Similarly, in Summer, we don't want kids playing out in the street at 11pm in broad daylight, when we're trying to get to sleep, do we?
In the northern hemisphere, the further South you go (towards the Equator), then the less of an issue these factors become, like in Cyprus @ 32ºN. But Cyprus probably wishes to align its time with that of Greece...
AL
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 6:52 pm
You let your kids play out in the street at 11pm, shame on you!PaphosAL wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 6:43 pm Simple, Shane. In Winter, with 8 hours of daylight available (at least here in UK @ 52ºN), we don't want our kids either going to, or coming home from, school in pitch darkness.
Similarly, in Summer, we don't want kids playing out in the street at 11pm in broad daylight, when we're trying to get to sleep, do we?
In the northern hemisphere, the further South you go (towards the Equator), then the less of an issue these factors become, like in Cyprus @ 32ºN. But Cyprus probably wishes to align its time with that of Greece...
AL
Still begs the question though, with today's technology do we still need to follow this archaic rule
Shane
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 7:09 pm
In Cyprus I would certainly prefer that they kept the time on Summer hours all the year through..
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 7:34 pm
How would modern technology counteract the position of the sun?
What amazes me is that we have the same discussion every year. By "we" I mean society.
What amazes me is that we have the same discussion every year. By "we" I mean society.
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:31 pm
Sunrise and sunset times in Cyprus for the longest day of the year, June 21st, are easy enough to establish. But if the clocks remain as they are and don't go back an hour in late October, where will that leave Cyprus sunrise/sunset times in late December?
Devil? Max?
AL
Devil? Max?
AL
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:56 pm
It is certain that instead of going dark around 4-30 it will stay light another hour until around 5-30 in the early evening.. Surely better for the Winter Visitors..
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:06 pm
and Sunrise next morning? 09:00 / 09:30? Not what Paphos residents really want in winter for their kids going to school mehinks, Trev...
AL
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:46 am
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:24 pm
I think the north of Cyprus tried not altering the clocks once in the past few years , it only lasted one season , not sure why they changed back .
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 3:26 pm
Possibly because there was a dreadful accident involving a school bus on a mountain road, in the dark morning.
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:38 pm
Some trivia on changing the clocks for anyone interested! 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/37645854
Shane
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/37645854
Shane
Re: One less hour in bed tonight...
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 7:05 pm
I like the extra hour in the evening as in Cyprus it is getting dark very early due to it's easterly location in Europe, not like Germany or North Italy where in summer is daylight until 10.30 pm.
Max
Max