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Almost everyone, I imagine, wants to see summer-time not merely extended to some time in November, but made perma- nent " for the duration." But that will be a long way from ridding us of our inconveniences. However time may be manipulated, what you gain at one end you lose at the other. On December 21st, for example, the sun rises, by Greenwich Mean Time, at 8.3 and sets at 3.53. Under summer-time we can reasonably expect it will be about 4.3o in the afternoon before there is much danger of the night sirens sounding. But in the morning it will not be light enough till somewhere around 8.3o for the night-raids to be considered over. Which is cold comfort for workers in offices and factories which decide to start at 8.3o in order to close down at 3.3o or earlier. In many cases it will mean leaving home in pitch darkness at 7 o'clock.
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