Sommerzeitwahnsinn

British Summer Time came as a bit of a surprise this year, though if Lord Tanlaw has his way GMT won't be a similar shock later in the year since the United Kingdom won't revert to it, which seems somewhat strange. The argument for the United Kingdom being, effectively, on CEST is predicated on the idea that more daylight in the evenings will affect various evening activities in beneficial ways. But why not, I ask, simply move all schedules back closer to the morning? Why fix the clock when we can just as easily fix our activities?

In other words, the logic seems to be: the sun rises and sets, and we assign values to the times of those events. Then we schedule our days around the values, but find that we've messed up our schedules. So instead of changing the schedules relative to when the sun rises and sets, which is the problem, we change the relationship of the arbitrary values to the ephemerides. It just seems like lunacy when our time systems are all so cosily linked to the machinations of the heavens.