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Petition · past parliament

Abolish GMT time zone and keep BST time zone

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

We need to keep to one time zone, let's keep too BST it has benefiting factors in the winter as an longer hour in the evening will have huge advantages, for crime rates and will reduce energy use. Let's be part of Europe and not turn our watches back in October

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Maintain British Summer Time year round. Stop putting the clocks back an hour.

Timeline

27 Mar 2016 Petition opened for signatures
1 Apr 2016 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10
Status Rejected
Rejected 1 Apr 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.