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Stay on British Summer Time this October 2020

Submitted on Wednesday 20th May 2020

Rejected on Thursday 30th July 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Stay on British Summer Time this October 2020

Petition Details

I suggest that in response to the current Covid-19 Pandemic we should RETAIN British Summer Time and NOT turn the clocks back to GMT.

Returning to Greenwich Mean Time in October would plunge our nation into darkness and massively impact on our nations mental and physical well-being.

Additional Information

To save energy and help the war effort, the Summer Time Act 1916 advanced the clocks in the UK for 1 hour from May 21 until October 1 in the same year. Summer time, or DST, proved so popular that it was named British Summer Time (BST) and the seasonal practice kept

For many years it has baffled me why we put our clocks back to GMT. When I started secondary school at age 11, I faced the long journey home in the dark come October. I questioned then and question now, over 40 years later, the safety of returning to GMT and it’s effect on the mental health and welfare of our nation.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/321333

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