to resent the time change for British summer time at the weekend?

[LunarRose]

My body is stubbornly refusing to adjust and I'm up way past my bed time (an I'm an adult)

Is it really necessary to change the clocks and have british summer time??

I feel exactly the same Lunar!

This is the 21st Century can't we just have the clocks set at either GMT or GMT+1 and ffs leave it. If the Scots or Welsh or Irish want they can change their clock times as they make a lot of their own decisions about how they govern themselves, why not this?

I hate it too. But I will hate it even more if we get BST imposed on us in winter and it's still dark and frozen at getting on for 10am. It drives me mad that they are even considering imposing that on us northerners just so southern children can play for a while after school.

I still feel "jet lagged" days after the change too.

I absolutely object to BST in Winter too.

its an hour. Get over it.

YABU! Do you whinge about jetlag if you go to France?

Lovely to be able to play outside with DD after tea this evening. The birds were singing in the dawn when I got up at 6:30, if we didn't have BST just think how early the little buggers darlings would be waking us up in a month or so!

I'd keep GMT+1 all year, TBH, and I'm in the north of England. As it stands, its dark when DD goes to school and when she returns in winter.

"its an hour. Get over it."

BLOODY HELL SORRY!

Didn't mean to cause offence.

Grimma, I was talking about the north of Scotland, where it is frequently minus 10 or below before the sun comes up and where there are no streetlights in most parts.

No offence! but BST works. if anything we should stay with BST. And it is only an hour. My DH does the whole, its 11 but its really 10 bollocks and I jsut say, no, its 11, shut up to fuck with your alternate reality times.

And to hell with us in the northern latitudes then? BST is fine in summer, although I'd personally rather we didn't change, but downright stupid and dangerous in winter. I sincerely hope is they do change that the school and work days up here will start at 10am and not 9am.

My body just wont sleep. Everyone has different sleeping patterns.

I am a night owl by nature anyway and I find it hard to fall asleep before midnight. When the clocks change to BST I just don't tire out an hour earlier and bed at midnight is pushed back to 1am or later as I roll around for ages and can't drop off. So I am exhausted at work the next day and fell asleep on the sofa monday night and then i couldn't sleep last night so i'm exhausted again.

One hour makes a lot of difference to people who don't have trouble sleeping.

I love the switch back to GMT though. I wake up really early

I agree A1980. In fact that is probably the reason behind why I felt so totally totally crap at work yesterday. I am totally sleep deprived any way as my DD still wakes several times a night to feed. The loss of an hour just made it even worse. And yes I am finding it hard to settle at night.

I don't notice the difference of an hour ahead when I travel to France, Germany, etc. The reason being I am so tired from a few hours of travelling that I have no trouble sleeping at night when I get there.

Travelling's different.

but its only an hour one night, people moan about it for weeks. Its just the one hour, get a grip!

But when I go to France or Germany etc I am on holiday, so doesn't matter

I don't moan for weeks and haven't heard anyone else either. In fact I look forward to it coming because it means that when i get home at 7pm, it will be light.

It's just the first night or two that I have difficulty dropping off but beyond that, i'm fine.

I'm liking the replies

why exactly do we do it anyway??

No offense but scotland is cold, surely you are prepared for cold weather and dark days anyway? have pity on us southern softies who can't seem to eat and sleep at the right times!!

" it means that when i get home at 7pm, it will be light. "

That happens in summer anyway just means you might have to wait a few more weeks...

I know Lunar but I like it lighter earlier.

Wow..I adjust to new time with no worries and so do my 4 dc's!! Sunday is a free to wake up whenever day and as long as we go to bed by the new time it,s never been a problem. I dreaded it when the kids were little but they always adjusted fine. Loving the evening sun!!!

No offence but why should I risk my children's lives driving them to school on icy untreated roads in the pitch black for months on end just so softie southerners can kick a ball around after school? Roll on independence (and I never ever thought I would say that).

hardly a small percentage of "softie southerners", actually the entire population of England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Ireland too. So why should we get rid of it for your minority population, if you want to be like that about it?

I was repeating LunarRose's terminology! We're talking at cross purposes. I was talking about the southern chattering classes trying to impose BST on us all year round. Crackers, as anyone who has dealt with a prolonged Scottish winter would know. Anyhow I'm off to bed.

I understand the Scots point...lets hope they don't go to European time and put Scotland in the dark till lunch!!! Scotland needs to be considered in these changes..it's a wonderful place but, sadly, often forgotten in the needs of London and the money makers. And that's coming from an Essex lass!!

I never thought this could get so controversial. Who have thought we could get from BST to a discussion on devolution

Damn can I trade in my kids? Given DD wakes routinely at half five in the morning and DS has trouble going to sleep until late (SN) it's takes them about a week to return to some kind of equilibrium!!

(preparing to start the bun fight proper) the problem of icy untreated roads could be solved with a 4by4 or moving south maybe?

I hate light nights!