Brexit and Timing at Orienteering Events in Britain – initial proposals
The British Orienteering Federation (BOF) and the European Commission (EC) have been trying to reach agreement on the time zone to be used for orienteering events in Britain (with certain exceptions for Northern Ireland) after Brexit, if and when that happens, or indeed if it doesn’t. The following are the initial proposals for voting on by poll of all BOF members (or possibly just club committees provided their members don’t deselect them before the vote).
Option 1: we leave on 29 March. Clocks in London will go forward by 1 hour at 1am on Sunday 31 March, as planned. This will no longer be known as BST (British Summer Time) but as BFT (British Freedom Time). All parishes outside London will be Free to set their own time zones, just like they did before the coming of the railways; this is in keeping with the general spirit of Brexit. All events will use the local time zone. Events which cross time zone boundaries will use the relevant time zone for each control, with the time between controls where the time zone changes being excluded from the results. Software suppliers have been informed, and asked to quote for any necessary software upgrades: these will be funded out of the £350million per week that was to have gone to fund the NHS.
Option 1A: the Northern Ireland Backstop. In order to avoid a time zone change between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland will stay in the same time zone as the Republic for an indeterminate and non-legally-binding transition period.
Option 2: Brexit is delayed for some months, or years. The EC (aka Brussels) are insisting that on 29 March Britain will change to Central European Time (GMT+1), and then at 1am on 31 March put the clocks forward by 1 hour to GMT+2. Thus Britain will be on the same time as Brussels until Brexit happens, when it will revert to BFT. All SI and EMIT controls must be re-synchronised
• At noon on Friday 29 March to GMT+1 (covers events on Saturday)
• At 1am on Sunday 31 March to GMT+2 (covers events on Sunday)
All event timings will be monitored by the European Time Homologation Sub-Group, and any infractions will be subject to a fine of €100 per competitor per control, payable within seven days.
Option 3: Brexit is cancelled. We all carry on as before, with GMT and BST. Clubs will be free to re-synchronise their controls to BST whenever they like, though it is probably better if they do it no later than the week after BST comes in. Real keenies can do it on Saturday night.Those who have made a habit of re-synchronising their outfield controls, but leaving their Starts and Finishes on GMT, will be named and shamed in 72pt headlines on the front page of the Daily Express, once it has recovered its equilibrium.
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bob wrote:All SI and EMIT controls must be re-synchronised
Finally, a compelling argument in favour of EMIT - one of the many great benefits of EMIT is that controls never need synchronising.
bob wrote:All events will use the local time zone
No problem with EMIT .
How can EMIT do this I hear you cry, how can it be so technically advanced compared to that other SImple system?
Its all in the Brikke The Brikke records a timestamp at each control. At download the time at each control is calculated back from the difference between the timestamp at the control and the computer time at download.
And consider this - a Norway++++ Brexit agreement?????
- zero tariffs on EMIT
- mega tariffs on any kit coming from Germany
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