More summer time
Sir: Why do well-meaning international bodies like the Worldwide Fund for Nature, who instigated the big switch-off for one ‘Earth Hour’ of darkness on Saturday night, not come out instead publicly to support Daylight Saving in this country?
Maintaining our clocks on British Summer Time from last October until 28 March would have saved at least one hour of electricity every day of the week — rather than one hyped-up day in the year achieved by the Earth Hour. And would not the application of Daylight Saving in the future eliminate the need for building one extra nuclear power station to meet the fatuous waste of energy created by turning our clocks back one hour every autumn?
If press reports over the weekend are correct in that the three main political parties may back clock change — perhaps in a hung Parliament — David Cameron might just agree to it.
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