Bloody hate daylight saving

[pho3be]

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?

Thank you Argy! This is what I shout at the tv every time this comes up! We dont' get 'extra' sunshine, the numbers on the clock might be different but the amount of sunshine hours remain the same.
We should stay on GMT all year round, then the changes would be gradual, like the seasons and people would just get used to it and adapt to it.

I know argy i never understand people thinking it gives you extra light !
I wouldnt care but doesnt it fall on mothers day this year so all us mothers are being deprived of an hour of sleep.
Not as if we get enough to start with so hardly seems fair!!

I like because as it gets closer to the day the clocks go forward my dc wake up earlier and earlier! I've seen 4.30 and 5am for two weeks now and soon it will all be resolved.

It happens every year. You know it happens. I dont get the angst.

Think of Spain. They are roughly the same longitude in parts as the UK and yet they are an hour of us having had to adopt Germanys time zone CET in the WW2 in 1940.

That means in winter sunrise is 8:56am and children start school in utter darkness.

It isnt that bad here.

*hour ahead of us

I love BST and I wish it stayed like that all year round.

Dark mornings in the winter wouldn't bother me - it's dark anyway when I get up in the depths of winter but having lighter evenings would make all the difference to me. I work 9-5.30 so spend several months leaving work in total darkness which I find really depressing. If it stayed on BST then it would only really be a month or so that it would be that bad.

I also have a horse so I ride after work - it feels like much harder work in the dark.

Yes, like Elessar, we can get our horses ridden after work/school once the clocks change - I wish we'd changed when America did (ie last weekend..)

To be honest, I'll be glad when the clocks have been moved forward an hour - I am a notoriously bad sleeper anyway, but being woken by birds singing at bloody 2.30am is getting beyond a joke - I thought they were meant to start later when it was dark, but not the feckers who live in the trees near us! Three times this week they been chirping in the very very early hours! At least when the clocks change, it'll be 3.30am!!!

And this year it changes to BST over the night before Mothers Day.....so no lie in for us.....

My kids have just started walking to school in the light and next week they have to walk to school in the dark again we're not in the UK but it changes all over Europe.

I have to start work at 6am on Sunday too, so one hour less sleep before that or go to bed at 9pm instead of 10pm on Saturday night...

No I don't like it either.

"And this year it changes to BST over the night before Mothers Day.....so no lie in for us"

Wait until your children are teenagers and you are wanting to go out for the day and they are still in bed. Be careful what you wish for.

I don't like it either, such a fuss for so little gain. Just stick with GMT. The days will get longer anyway, and the birds will still be singing from 3am onwards.

We stayed on BST from spring 1968 until autumn 19791 and it did not work well. Ridiculously late sunrises in winter.

Then there's the European angle. Brexit or no, it would be impractical not to be always one hour behind the rest of the continent - and the US usually changes at the same time too. The loss of an hour's slepp in March really is neither here nor there.

The hour doesn't change the fact that I still arrive at work before the sun comes up.

No but it does mean fewer children are killed on the roads, forgive me for thinking the latter was important.

Andrew how did it cause late sunrises in winter, doesn't the time change this weekend make sunrise later, whereas sticking with winter time / Standard time year round would keep sunrise as late as possible but make sunset early too...

Here in Germany it is rubbish and dangerous for school children when summer time kicks in as they are walking to school around 7am- atm it is light at 7am but dark at 6am, next week 7am will be dark again.

School children are not walking home from school in the dark are they? If they are perhaps the school day is too long and they should have a shorter lunch break and finish earlier.

Sorry I'm making no sense - I mean keeping standard time year 'round would keep sunrise safely early, but of course keep sunset early too (not as early as 3pm though!)

Exactly Argy!
If we could actually "save" daylight, we could save some up in the summer (who needs sunlight at 4.30am fgs?) and use it up in the winter when we're short...

Alternatively, we could make our time halfway between the two, keep everyone happy. GMT+ 30mins.

OP I'm totally with you on this, YANBU. It's horribly confusing and despite doing it year after year, I've never got to grips with the total weirdness of changing the time!

But kids are at risk walking home at 4pm in the winter what difference does it make ?
Wouldn't it be energy saving as well? You need lights on in the morning in winter no matter what, but the extra hour in the evening, and what about well being? Its just so bloody depressing when its dark at 4
Id like to read more about the reasons why it didn't work in the 60s

Exactly Motherofpearl messing with the time is just strange.

Found the attached info. Perhaps a new study needs to be done

Andrewofgg The US has changed last Sunday already. They're usually doing it a week or so earlier than Europe. No idea why but it's always a pain working with US colleagues during that in-between period :/

Indeed? From 1989 to 2004 I was doing work which involved endless phoning to the USA and only remember one or two occasions when there was a week's difference. And never two weeks.

I love it - and get great entertainment from the drama it creates . Over 70 countries practice some form of daylight saving, we are hardly alone.