to ask why we still change the times on the clocks

[auntiepicklebottom2]

as the title says.

I remember an experiment when I was at primary school (late 1960s), when for a couple of winter we stayed on BST for the winter as well. I lived in South London at the time and it felt very odd walking to school in the dark. The experiment was discontinued because there were more accidents.

I agree with the poster that said that people are less wide awake in the morning, plus you have all the children going to school to contend with. In the evening rush hour you don't have schoolchildren returning home as well as commuters travelling at the same time.

Oh guillotined glad to see there's at least 1 other person who agrees with me!

Me too Boo. GMT would suit me nicely.

TBH I can't see the point of it either. However clocks went back by an hour here in the Netherlands too so it's not just a Scottish/British thing.

I feel that by adapting time (BST etc) we are actually altering the natural way of the world to meet our social needs. It was a decision made by someone somewhere - but before clocks etc when days were measured by daylight/ no daylight! people adapted/coped.

Surely with regards to accidents it would be better to adjust things we can control and insist children wear Hi-Vis jackets/ safety gear etc than talk about adjusting things we don't control like geographics and the sun/ moon position.

For the people asking about being hauled into the med....Portugal is in the same timezone as the U.K. ad is now in G.M.T. maybe we can pretend?? [hgrin]

I dislike changing the times, it's a big faff and has only been part of the system for the past 100 years or so and only as someone called William Willets could play a round of golf properly? Pah, I think not.

Keep GMT all year round, leave the bloody clocks alone so I don't have to keep thinking in "old money" for a week to work out what my 2 year olds moods might mean.

I would vote to keep British Summer Time purely because most of Europe does the summer time thing too, it's easier if time differences between countries don't change depending on the time of year.

A lot of Australia has daylight savings time too, but their clocks change at a different time. So Melbourne can be 9, 10 or 11 hours ahead depending on the date. Darwin even has a silly half hour difference just to make it even harder.

Ah, fond memories of 5 am calls from my Grandma (in Aus) on Sunday mornings, "I thought it was later" [hgrin]

Can't stand the faffing about with the clocks. Total PITA. Jetlag for everyone wice a year. The kids were in at 7.30 this morning - great! But it was actually 6.30 - Oh No!!!! Stoopid.

Change them one way or the other - I don't really care which - and just leave them there FGS.

YABU

I don't think the changing of the clocks made much difference to DD when she was small. She is 11 now and it doesn't make any difference at all. I wonder why some children are more affected than others?

To a post on a previous page, time zones change from East to West, not North and South.

You can not get jet lag from losing or gaining one hour!

'Although I do not agree with time changes, putting Scotland in it's own timezone isn't really an option as timezones are north/south'

No, they are East and West from Greenwich in London.

Tee, you are an American expat so surely you understand time zones? Your country has several.

they probably mean scotland/england is north/south geographically, not matching the east/west timezones

There must be a point somewhere further south where clocks aren't changed though.

I know they change the clocks in the USA, but is that all the way down to Florida?