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Phil L wrote:
And as now it only gets light at 8AM, if it were left like that, it
would still be dark when all the kids were going to school at 8:30,
this is why they changed it - an extra hour at 4pm is a waste of light,
all the kids are back home by then
When I were a kid in the NE of Scotland, we went to school in the dark as
well as coming home after dark for some of the winter.
But had daylight until after 11pm in mid summer.
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