After years of fruitless lobbying and woolly excuses, sheep farmers in Wales have finally convinced their Assembly to introduce their nation’s own time zone.
On March 29th 2020, all Welsh clocks will move to Daylight Shearing Time (DST), exactly one hour later than British Summer Time (BST). This change will give hill farmers the additional time they need in order to safely complete their work.
Evan Evans, 47, a sheep farmer from Llanfihangel y Creuddyn near Aberystwyth told us: “Look you boy-o, it’s a really, really good thing, is this new time zone,” he said, “see, it gets dark so early in the valley that by the time we’ve caught the little buggers it’s too dark to shear ‘em without taking their ears off.”
We understand that in October, the Welsh clocks will revert to SVT (Standard Valley Time) which, for some reason that Evan Evans couldn’t explain, will be one hour and seventeen minutes later than GMT.
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“Ahead of BST” meant “later than BST” = BST +1 so the same lightness as 8pm in Bognor would be enjoyed by Wales at their Summerime 9pm.
This post is somewhat confusing. It states that the DST will be 1 hour behind BST . This makes a complete muck up of the old adage spring forward fall back . The purpose of BST (or british shagging time as it is some times known) is to give the population of England more daylight in the evenings for courting and other pastimes. The obvious disadvantage of DST is that it will give the Welsh farmer less light for shearing and darker evenings perhaps to their advantage as this will give them cover for the Welsh tradition of SST (or sheep shagging time) the disadvantage is that they will not be able to see the sheep turn their heads and smile.
To sum up I think the whole idea is a waste of time that can only be expected from the Welsh nation that have only just discovered that some people like to go to the pub on Sunday !
Thank you Dylan. I assume your tallow wick is spluttering in the shearing shed: DST will be one hour AHEAD of BST so at 10pm in Llanfihangel y Creuddyn it will be a lot lighter than Bognor.
It distinctly says on the 29th of March 2020 DST all Welsh clocks will move to 1hour later than BST Therefore if it gets dark at 9pm BST it will be only 8pm in the mountains of wales ? Or maybe you meant to say that Wales will move to BST +1 wich means it is 2 hours ahead of GMT. This has been tried before but was abandoned very soon afterwards as it was too dark in the mornings for the miners to get to work without using their Davies lamps . This unfortunately led to the lights running out of fuel by lunch time and everyone going home early and surprising the farmers who by this time were on SSMW (or shepherds shagging miners wives) while they were waiting for it to be light enough to go out SS! Ps. It’s never light in Bognor