For the UK to introduce Daylight Saving for a three year trial period in order to make better use of the daylight hours that the country receives. This would mean moving the clocks two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in the Summer (GMT+2) and one hour ahead of GMT in the Winter (GMT+1).
Moving to Daylight Saving means that the UK would have lighter evenings all year round. This would provide considerable environmental, road safety, health and leisure advantages that would significantly outweigh the disbenefits of darker mornings.
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South West Tourism and other tourism bodies are currently lobbying central Government in support of this campaign. There is currently no petition to sign to voice your backing of the campaign, details will be posted on this site when one exists.
Date added: Wednesday 18th March 2009
Latest updated: Thursday 2nd September 2010
Q. Would you like to see Double Daylight Saving trialled?
60 votes in total so far
South West Tourism,
Sterling House,
Dix's Field,
Exeter EX1 1QA
Email: post@swtourism.org.uk
Comments
Jay Rowden, Jay Rowden Photography
I heard about this from a friend and I think it is in an excellent idea. It seems so wasteful to think that so much sunlight is being squandered while we are all asleep. Moving the clocks forward makes perfect sense for a thousand different reasons. Let's get some impetus going on this and really begin to lobby government.Jay Rowden - Photographerwww.jayrowden.com
Comment made: Wednesday 21st July 2010
chris pearson, White Wabbit W/shop
wish it was a country wide campaign, as surely the money saved would be astronomical!!!!!!!!!
Comment made: Monday 29th March 2010
Sam Edwards, Sam Edwards
Great idea
Comment made: Wednesday 24th March 2010
matthew taylor
I think this is a great idea. The everage person in this country spends hoars sleeping through light for what adds up to hundereds of hours per year. Let's use it in the evening's after the rush hour has finished. 30 milion housholds switching on their lights an hour later and the millions of streetlamps going on an hour later must be a huge saving in energy and environmental cost. Heat too as obviously the watts per sqaure meter is greater in the light and whillst asleep we are under a quilt with ours eyes shut and not needing the heat and light (average brit up at 7am ish). It would also help tourism and SAD sufferers. I can have more lovely evening walks or bike rides which benefits health. I sympathise with the Scottish. With devolution could it be suggested that Westmister allows them the power to control their time to whatever they feel is most advantageuos to themselves, but I feel this definately makes sense for all UK South of Scotland.
Comment made: Monday 22nd March 2010
Tom Mullarkey, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
This is a great idea, long overdue. It's time we stopped a few naysayers from stopping 60 million people's lives being improved, at no cost. I like to think the best of people - who would really put their own convenience ahead of the opportunity to help save somebody's life?
Comment made: Friday 19th March 2010
ritch bounds
I fully support this campaign it woulds help people on night shift to be able to get some sleep when they come home. Are you starting a petituion for this?
Comment made: Friday 19th March 2010
Tina Szucs, Tina Szucs
It would not only lead to more tourism income, a better quality of life and less energy consumption. It would also lead to an estimated reduction in deaths of 104 and reduction in serious injuries of 450 on the roads each year. See Cambridge Centre for Technology Management for details. It's not a case of like or dislike of a new time policy - it's lives and economic costs that we incur because of the current policy
Comment made: Friday 20th November 2009
Anonymous
I really think we should be in line with Europe. In the SE it is light in the summer at 5.30 am when there is no one around - a waste of daylight. Scotland may have darker evenings in the winter but they have much lighter evenings in the summer. Also, there would be a greater saving of electricity in the winter if we were in line with Europe.
Comment made: Friday 23rd October 2009
Anonymous
good idea! maybe my little ones would sleep till a reasonable time, e.g. 6.30 - 7.00 am if it wasn't so light too!
Comment made: Thursday 30th July 2009
Anonymous
Daft idea .. in the winter children and workers would go to work in the pitch dark. As it is at the moment and it may be gloomy, but in the winter, kids go to and from school in the light. The sun is directly overhead at noon during GMT and it is ... noon.In the summer the UK gets far longer daylight hours than countries to the south. Hands off please.
Comment made: Monday 22nd June 2009
Anonymous
I fully support this campaign. It would provide better quality of life and also help to reduce carbon emissions. At the moment it is light at about 06.30 but hardly anyone is up and about.It would also help if we were on the same time scale as our immediate European neighboursPHil Page, Dartmoor Nature Tours
Comment made: Tuesday 24th March 2009
Anonymous
As well as the varous environmental advantages mentioned, our business hours would then be the same as the rest of Western Europe.
Comment made: Thursday 19th March 2009
Anonymous
No, no, no, don't touch the clocks just move the times that people go to work, i. e. in Saudia Arabia the kids go to school from 7 am to midday to avoid the heat. Do the same in this Country to gain daylight hours.Do you realise the work that is caused to internal systems everytime the clock is altered. Totally unnecessary
Comment made: Thursday 19th March 2009
Anonymous
It's been tried and scrapped. Leave things alone.
Comment made: Thursday 19th March 2009
Anonymous
I think this is a brilliant idea! Not only would it bring us in line with most of the continent of Europe, but in the south west it would extend the evenings making for more revenue from tourism.
Comment made: Thursday 19th March 2009
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