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George Huxtable wrote:
> The same applies to Portugal, even further West, where the displacement
> between the Sun and the clock can approach 3 hours.

Here's a good bar bet (especially with my fellow Americans who often
have no sense of geography outside the US):  Name the westernmost
capital city in Europe.  No, not London (Madrid is west of it) or even
Dublin.  It's Lisbon, which is at longitude 9 deg 8 min west.  (I've
heard that some Icelanders consider Iceland to be part of Europe, so
there may be an argument about Reykjavik)

> Some 30-odd years ago, an experiment was tried in Britain of sticking with
> GMT+1 through one Winter, rather than returning the clocks to GMT. The
> result was that children were travelling to school in pitch darkness, and
> many accidents occurred. It was most unpopular, and wasn't repeated.

Was that during the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s??   The US tried
keeping DST (or Summer Time) year round during it, with similar results.

Lu Abel

   

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