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To: Prime Minister David Cameron

No clock Changes: Maintain British Summer Time through the year - and Save Energy

Starting in 2016, stop changing our clocks and upsetting our circadian rhythms by maintaining British Summer Time - Daylight Saving Time- throughout the year

Why is this important?

Britain changes its clocks from British Summer to Winter Time every October.

This results in one hour more natural light on winter mornings: but one hour less light on winter afternoons when most people are out and about.

More people, especially children, are on their way home from school and work and are involved in more traffic accidents during murky Winter afternoons than in the mornings.

More people feel depressed and isolated due to early evening darkness, some imposing late afternoon curfews on their outdoor activities.

Less people of all ages play sport or venture out socially during winter evenings.

The majority of purportedly clock-conscious cows are these days milked by robots.

British Summer Time is also known as Daylight Saving Time - which contributes to energy saving.

British Winter Time in contrast leads to consumption of more of our valuable heat and light resources during cold and dark winter afternoons.

Due to its northerly location near Iceland, Scotland might have reason to maintain the hour's difference between Winter & Summer time and should be invited to make its own parliamentary decisions on this issue.

In the rest of Brtain, there is no logical reason for this clock changing to British Winter Time which adversely effects people's mental and physical well-being, transport safety and scheduling, and causes the over-consumption of valuable fuel resources.

How it will be delivered

Deliver to Number 10 with others

Wales, England, Ireland

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Updates

2022-03-14 16:31:29 +0000

500 signatures reached

2017-09-29 17:49:12 +0100

100 signatures reached

2017-03-26 17:05:31 +0100

50 signatures reached

2016-11-02 20:12:57 +0000

25 signatures reached

2015-12-14 15:26:48 +0000

10 signatures reached