This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Correct time zone for Britain
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Abandon the idea of changing Britain to Central European time. The appropriate time zone for Britain is GMT+0, defined by the longitude of the country - in fact, most of Britain is west of Greenwich. Almost all countries use a time zone which makes noon approximately 12:00 on the clock, and there is no good reason why we should use a time zone based hundreds of miles to the east.
The current proposal to remain on BST all year is only the beginning: soon after would come a change to GMT +2 in summer to "conform with the rest of Europe". At the expense of making it a bit lighter in summer evenings when it is light anyway, most of Britain would suffer many more dark mornings in Winter.
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