What idiot invented daylight saving?

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The baby WILL NOT go to sleep. And I don't blame him, poor lamb. Daylight saving is dumb.

I love the light evenings though! And hate getting woken up by daylight coming through the window at 5am! Blackout blinds?

no, putting the clocks back in winter in England is dumb...

We've got 'em. Not working - his body clock is temporarily confused. From my perspective I hate the fact that 6 am is now 7 and I've lost a whole hour in which to work/clean up.

I agree, it totally buggered up DS2's daytime nap today grrr. Plus DS1 has epilepsy and his meds are meant to be given at 7.15 am and 7.15 pm so the daylight saving thing means we have to mess about with it for a while to get it right so double grr for that.

What would actually happen if we didn't move the clocks backwards or forwards?

Let's face it; the meridian was set to go through London for reasons of imperial pride, not because it actually works properly...

It was invented during the First World War, but I can't remember who first implemented the idea without googling it.

England is not composed entirely of the south. Here in the North East we find it rather dark in winter too...

I'd like permenant BST.

I'm up north, as it happens...

GMT (winter time is the original ) We have only had BST for 100 yrs or so . So if we should stick to one time it should be GMT

We have two children aged 5 and 3 and we have never had a problem with the clocks change

Wasn't it to allow farmers to work longer for food production during the war........ or something?!

And reduction of road accidents involving children during winter months? I think the figures showed most accidents occurred during dark mornings so putting the clocks back during winter allows lighter mornings for a while.

On the other hand I may be churning out a load of old half-remembered rubbish

good stretch in the evening now

I didn't think we put the clocks back in Winter at all; just back to where they originally were before Summer time began... so how did the number of accidents play a part? And actually, thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I've heard something about children and accidents on the way to school before

My DC refused to believe it was time for bed because it's still daytime, Mummy (said in contemptuous tones) until I put cBeebies for them to see the end of the bedtime story by way of proving my point.

DS1 has gone to bed like a lamb tonight, but DS2 is fighting it. Sigh.

I don't really care whether we are on winter time or summer time as long as it doesn't change twice a year. It's very disruptive.

And wasn't there a proposal recently that the clocks should go forward two hours in summer? Or did I dream it?

I hate the longer evenings - I get really melancholy . But the clock saying 7 rather than 6 had a definite positive effect when the DC woke me up.

Partial - that's the thing I seem to remember this from when I was a child myself (Dark ages) but this may be because they tried a Double Summertime experiment. During the 70s?
Someone better informed will come along in a minute................
That's probably what I'm thinking of -

in winter I get up at night and dress by yellow candle light, in summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see the birds still singing on the tree

try alaska - daylight varies between 2 and 22 hours

daylight saving does not change the amount of daylight, just where it appears on our arbitrary clocks

In a nutshell; William Willett - from Petts Wood, near Orpington, Kent.

And - looking at Wiki - the Great-Great Grandfather of Chris Martin - Coldplay.

I took my hour back this morning. I didn't wake up until 6.55!

Sadly, it was unintentional, since I have to be at work at 7! Ooops!

I love daylight saving. You need to do it gradually with kids, can't expect them to immediately go to sleep an hour earlier. Long summer nights FTW :)

I love it. My youngest has been getting up between 5:30 and 6:30 since last October. When I wake in the morning and there is a 7 on the clock, I'm in a much better mood for the day.

I love it. Wish we didn't turn the clocks back in autumn and had BST all year round.