Longer evenings could move a step closer with a government plan to move UK clocks forward an extra hour.

 

A "tourism strategy" will include a plan to move the clocks in line with most of Europe, bringing lighter evenings but darker mornings.

 

Tourism chiefs and safety campaigners support the move, but there are fears in Scotland about road accidents.

 

Ministers want to be satisfied the country backs the plan before giving the go-ahead, the BBC understands.

 

Last year, Prime Minister David Cameron indicated he was willing to consider a switch. "The argument will be won when people across the country feel comfortable with the change," he said in August. "It's up to those who want to make the change to make the argument to try to convince people right across the country that it's a good thing. "People who like taking part in sporting activity and would like longer days are already quite easy to sway. That's the key to winning this argument."

 

The proposals will be published by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in the coming week, the BBC has been told.

 

Bringing the clocks forward by one hour would bring the UK into line with Central European Time (CET), which is British Summer Time (BST) plus one hour and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) plus two hours.

 

Tourism bosses say the number of overseas visitors would increase if summer evenings were lighter and they estimate the benefits to the economy could total billions of pounds.

 

But there have been fears expressed in Scotland that putting the clocks forward would increase road accidents in the darker mornings. A parliamentary bill requiring the government to conduct analysis of the costs and benefits of shifting the clocks forward received MPs' initial approval in December.

 

A three-year experiment to keep BST all year took place between 1968 and 1971, but was not made permanent.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12517762

At last!

 

Lighter evenings are safer for the school kids walking home than lighter mornings.

 

Scotland can keep the old time

I really hope this does happen

Here in Uruguay we do this part of the year

 

Its Great, the sun disappears at like 9pm

About time, too!!:rolleyes:

so does that mean then that ireland and n.ireland will be an hour behind the uk?

you don't do this already? weird

When the decision's announced, they should play "Clocks" in the background.................... :rolleyes:

So, when'll we know?

So, when'll we know?

 

When the time is right............................... :P

:P

 

That'll be weird, I can finally listen to BBC radio in my own time.

The radio programmes are all going to start an hour earlier to compensate!:P

Nooooooooooooo

so does that mean then that ireland and n.ireland will be an hour behind the uk?

 

Probably N.Ireland will change leaving the rest of Ireland on GMT (until they change as well).