Unfortunately the bill I have previously asked people to support didn't get a simple hearing on Friday as the timings involved meant that the debate has been delayed. This isn't a bad thing of course, it just means a bit of a wait for the verdict from the MPs interested, the debate continues on the 14th (this coming Friday). So, of course, I urge people to continue to support this trial especially given that we can see from Hansard just how a minority of people seem to be opposed to any positive move for utterly petty reasoning.

On Friday (7th March) comes a very important and exciting bill that I have previously blogged about in some detail, the "Energy Saving (Daylight) bill" that would see us permanently operate on Central European Time rather than GMT for a three year trial.

Every year we have the debate about the seemingly complex issue of winding a clock back an hour when it comes to the winter. There is inevitable coverage on the breakfast news about the concerns over safety and also those that claim that they cannot work efficiently if the clocks don't go back. However the subject seems to be potentially getting a parliamentary revisit almost 30 years after the last experiment with a "constant British summer time" started without eventual success.

For me I have never really thought about the subject and it wasn't until Unity on Liberal Conspiracy posted a list of 20 bills that will attempt to be passed through Parliament in the next few months. So having now thought about it, here is my analysis of the situation.

In this post...

• Why did it fail at the time?
• Why should we revisit the situation?
• Are we too inflexible?