Anyone else dread the clocks going back

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I hate the long dark nights
Go in to work in the dark
Come home in the dark
I find myself getting quite anxious and low as the weeks go on
Try and embrace the cosy element but I miss daylight
I am the grinch I know

Absolutely adore it, the darker and cosier the better. Only sad thing is that after 21st December, it starts getting lighter again, doesn't feel like it should as it's still winter!

I am not a fan of the actual night the clocks go back though, as I often am working night shifts that night (luckily not tonight), which are already long enough without the extra hour.

I hate autumn and winter and dread the clocks going back. I am always cold, even at home with heating on. Can not understand how anyone likes it.

Complete opposite for me, can't fathom how people like the glaring sun and sticky heat in the summer, but I understand I'm in the minority with that. I guess that's a small part of what makes us all individuals!

I used to love the 'extra hour' in bed but now I have a toddler I feel robbed!

Right now I'm excited by the cosiness and the excuse/opportunity to spend long evenings on the sofa, with blanket, candle burning and cat!

Trying to hold at bay the recognition that once winter is here it is a long slong til spring. Nov- April its pretty grim from that point of view.

But today it feels ok.

I hate it but I've started to reframe as a summer count down which helps.

I hate it. I definitely experience SAD and the (seemingly) continuous darkness gets me down

I hate it. Will miss evening walks with the dog. Of course we'll still go out but it's not the same..

I have a theory which works with the (very small) sample of my family, that it depends when your birthday is what season you prefer e.g. I am December and I love winter. I'm sure it wouldn't play out on a larger scale but its interesting in the context of my family.

Perhaps it wouldn't play out on a larger scale, @Upsy1981, but all my DC and I have summer holiday birthdays, and I can't begin to describe how much I detest winter. I just want someone to make it all go away, so I can wake up in April.

I love cosy knitwear, and being at home, and Christmas, but I hate never seeing daylight. I’m in NE Scotland and it feels like it never gets properly light.

If we didn't have long dark evenings in winter, we wouldn't have lovely long light evenings in summer.
Swings and roundabouts.
Plus we get an extra hour in bed when the clocks change on Sunday. (OK, not if you have babies/young children - just wait till they're bigger and you have to drag them out of bed.)

I hate winter and the long dark evenings. I much prefer summer with lighter nights even if it rains as it does in Scotland

Makes no odds.Sun has zero warmth at any time now until March.
The days all feel short whatever time the clocks say.
Mornings are cold even if the suns out. Nights are cold and even today which was sunny the day was obviously coming to an end by 4.30.
Absolutely hate it.
Good luck to those of you that think cracked lips, too many layers of clothes and cold feet are " cosy".

In midwinter I drive to and from work in the dark, and would still do so even if the clocks were kep at BST. There are only so many daylight hours in the day. Changing the clocks doesn't affect that.

In the middle of winter we have about 8 hours of daylight. So it makes sense to me that half are before midday and half after. That's what GMT is and we can't get the planet to change its orbit to give us more daylight.

Upsy my birthday is in November, and I hate winter.

I notice nobody has answered my question btw!

I also have family/friends round the world and like to try and keep track of what time it is where they are for various reasons. That's hard with all the different time changes too.

Some countries or parts of countries do it, some don't, they don't all do it the same dates... Bloody confusing!

If it's for lighter mornings for farmers etc can we not just stay on "winter time"? Please?

Set alarm for the actual time you want and it will go off as your phone will auto change the time at 2!

Sorry but I love winter and the clocks going back! I suffered through the awful heat this summer this year, it really affected my health. We are all different. I had to put up with summer, now it's others turn to put up with winter.

I can’t put into words how much I hate it. I simply cannot bear it being dark at 4pm. This summer has been so wonderful, literally good weather from May until the end of October.

Thanks Highland hope you're right!

I absolutely hate it. Gives me anxiety about impending winter. I find the dark claustrophobic and socially limiting.

Hate it, feel like we’re going into a dark tunnel for months, it’s like living underground

Yes yes and yes. I think every parent will agree 

I actually love that it heralds a proper change of season.

I'm in the South and since September we've had so many lovely warm days, but it's been a bit disorientating towards the end of October.

It's been so much colder in the last couple of days though and the clocks going back has made me look forward to Halloween and Guy Fawkes, after which the whole Christmas period seems to kick in.