13/11/2018
Do you prefer wintertime clocks or summertime clocks? The EU is proposing to act on the results of a survey which suggests that most people would prefer to abolish the twice-yearly clock change. Ireland must now consider whether it would like to adopt permanent summer time or winter time. Choosing summer time means brighter evenings with darker mornings in the winter than we currently experience. Choosing winter time means brighter mornings with darker evenings in the summer than we currently experience.
You can give your opinion by answering four simple questions in a surveymonkey issued by the Department of Justice. Just go to:
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/Consultation_on_Seasonal_Clock_Changes
Click on this pic below (in the link, not here!) and the surveymonkey will appear. Alternatively you can email them but that obviously takes much longer. Closing date for receipt of opinions is 30th November.
(Note: Some of us are having problems with the link to the Dept of Justice. If you are, scroll down to John Desmond's shortened link in the comments below and use that instead. I'm afraid to copy and paste it into the post lest it become muddled by Facebook again!)
