Couple refuse to live in our time zone because they don't play by anyone's rules
The couple are rebels. Hardcore rebels. (Picture: CASCADE)
Jim and Barbara Casey don’t play by anyone’s rules. 
They returned home from a break in Tenerife and decided to stick with European time, an hour ahead of GMT.
Jim, 74, a retired hotelier, calls it WARP – Winter Adjustment for Retired People – and says it means he and Barbara avoid queues and traffic, get the best seats at restaurants and are never late for appointments.
The couple, from Heversham, Cumbria, say they were sick of the long, dark evenings and took matters into their own hands by moving all their clocks forward by 60 minutes.
They are refusing to live ‘by government time’ and say they’re reaping the rewards.
While on holiday in Tenerife with his wife, Barbara, Jim realised that when they returned to the Lake District it would be going dark too early for his liking.

FROM JOHN JEFFAY AT CASCADE NEWS LTD 0161 660 8087 / 07771 957773 john@cascadenews.co.uk / www.cascadenews.co.uknnnSyndicated for Westmorland GazettennJim CaseynnnJIM and Barbara Casey are living in their own time zone.nThey returned home from a break in Tenerife and decided to stick with European time, an hour ahead of GMT.nJim, 74, a retired hotelier, calls it WARP - Winter Adjustment for Retired People ¿ and says it means he and Barbara avoid queues and traffic, get the best seats at restaurants and are never late for appointments.nThe couple, from Heversham, Cumbria, say they were sick of the long, dark evenings and took matters into their own hands by moving all their clocks forward by 60 minutes.n
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Britain's time history

The Summer Time Act of 1916 was passed by Parliament and the first day of British Summer Time was 21 May, 1916.
Hands on many clocks could not be turned back without breaking the mechanism so owners had to put the clock forward by 11 hours.
During WW1 it helped increase productivity of munitions factories.
In 1940 during the Second World War, the clocks in Britain were not put back by an hour at the end of Summer Time, so Britain was two hours ahead of GMT.
In 1947, due to severe fuel shortages, clocks were advanced by one hour on two occasions during the spring, and put back by one hour on two occasions during the autumn, meaning that
Britain was back on BDST during that summer.
Clocks go forward on March 27, 2016, at 1am.

‘We find it great, it makes the day a bit longer,’ said Jim. ‘We are on continental time and we can never be late.
‘There are so many benefits to it – if you’re on holiday and you go down to breakfast you’re always an hour ahead of everyone else so you never queue.
‘When we go out to a restaurant here for lunch then there’s nobody there so we get served first and get the best seats.
‘We miss a lot of the rush hour traffic too and it means when we go shopping there is always somewhere to park.’