Bloody hate daylight saving

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It has no benefit for me, everyone complains about it, no one seems to know exactly why (farmers? Traffic? Scotland? ww2?) The whole concept of changing the time seems odd.
If you think it's a good idea, why?

Nooo I've just got dd into sleep routine

I hate the Spring change but love the Autumn one. This is simply because I lose an hour in bed in the Spring but, on the other hand, gain an extra hour in bed in the Autumn. Delicious - I look forward to it every year.
However I have no issue with dark evenings - actually quite like them.

It was introduced in 1916 to stop people wasting valuable hours of daylight during the summer months, apparently.
What does that mean?

I found this 1010uk.org/lighterlater/ but the campaign was dismissed in parliament

flapjackfairy I'm the same as you... I love my dark winter nights ... I dread the long summer nights x

I can't bloody wait! My happiness levels have already increased due to the evenings being a bit lighter and a bit of sun shining.

Hate them going back with a passion.

It's outdated and ridiculous. Do not understand why we put up with this antiquated loss of light!! Just keep it on bst!!

What date does it happen please ?

Last weekend in March.

It may have escaped your notice Shania that the Northern part of the UK wouldn't get light in winter until after 10 am if we didn't go back to GMT. It isn't just all about everyone living in the South.

I'll be honest, I never even notice it! The changes happen and the whole thing passes me by!

I'm in the North, and not even in Scotland. I'm rather partial to the sun being at its highest point in the actual middle of the day.

GMT works well. While the kids have been at the local primary, we've spent December leaving the house just as the street lights turn off and getting home again just as they turn back on. Perfect. If we stayed in BST all year, we'd spend at least a month a year trying to dodge all the dog shit in the dark, every morning.

Night owl here. Spring clock change is a menace. Getting up at half 6 every day over to winter is painful as fuck. Getting up at effectively half 5 to go commutin' is criminal.

I'm one time zone over from the UK. In a country where everything starts an hour earlier anyway- office hours are 8-4. I really really notice the light changing because I have to get up earlier. I appreciate it more now than I ever did in the UK.

Everyone complains about it

Do they ? I thought everyone loves the clocks going forward and moans when we go back to GMT at the end of October. Are you getting them mixed up?

Nooooo! I am a huge daylight savings fan since it gets so light in the UK . We don't have daylight savings in southeast Asia so I really like having sunshine at 9 PM in the summer in the UK

I'm ancient enough to remember, albeit dimly, the time they did the experiment of keeping BST all the year round, and I thought it was brilliant. I hate it in winter when it's dark at 4, so avoiding that was a major plus, as was avoiding the loss of an hour's sleep when clocks go forward. In winter I usually go to work in the dark anyway, so having lighter mornings makes zero difference to me.

I've never understood how it's beneficial to farmers, as it doesn't actually give us any extra hours of light during the day, and these days they're doing milking etc in fully lit milking parlours anyway. Surely if a farmer doesn't want to get up in the dark he doesn't have to?

A way to remember the change dates are last Sunday in March and last Sunday in October. Always the same, every year x

USA changed yesterday. I love it longer evening tondo stuff

I'm another fan, love the longer evenings, hate the dark and the cold, so for me it's a sign, spring has sprung basically, don't like it when they go back it signals winter is coming to me.

I don't like changing all the bloody clocks in the house though, then cars, watches, proper pain in the proverbial and lots of faffing.

We flew to NY the day of the oct change here, then they changed the day before we flew back. What with jet lag and clock changes my head spun.

I think GMT is needed in the winter - even in the south the mornings are horribly dark.

However, why do we have to wait until the end of March to go back to BST? Why can't we go forward at the end of Feb? We go back at the end of October, not September.

same as coffee

LOVE October, extra hour in bed (in theory at least), plus means it's nearly Christmas

March one tho ugh

It s stealing an hour of my birthday. Every bugger else gets 24 hours but oh no not me!! (and everyone else who has 26th March as their BD)

How to help the kids change time: On Thursday, put them to bed 15 mins earlier (say 6.45). Friday 6.30. Sat 6.15 and if you didn't change that, on Sunday it would be 7.15.
To stop them waking in the morning we have a cassette blind. And a blackout curtain.

I always get confused because it happens at one weekend for USA and another one for UK. So every year I see memes on FB and get all confused

If we didn't keep using the US terminology for everything, like license[sic] plates and Daylight savings and Mothers Day, it would be much easier to distinguih our versions. British Summer Time is what we actually call it.

YABU. No daylight is lost at any time. The simple fact is that there are only a few hours of daylight to be had in the middle of winter. Whatever we do with clocks will not create extra daylight. People who bang on about making summer time permanent or creating double summer time are just a little bit stupid.