to want to scrap daylight savings?

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Rant: I hate this day every year. And it's partner in October. Whatever the (weak if you ask me) arguments were about initiating daylight savings, I cannot for the life of me understand why we need it still in this 24/7 globalised non-stop world we live in. If you need daylight to work, then work when there's daylight - who cares what the clock says?! OH has tried to defend it citing historical features of employment law etc, but I just don't accept that there weren't alternative measures that would;t mess with your body clock twice a week. His subsequent argument is that now we have it, why go to the expense of changing it.....I would argue that there are a significant number of missed NHS appointments because of people forgetting to change their clocks, and presumably there are missed business hours etc......AIBU in wanting to get rid of daylight savings?!

I love how all these Scottish people bang on about Scottish winters. I am from as far north in Scotland as you can get and now live down south. I can tell you, the difference i daylight ;levels is barely noticeable.

I spent three years living in Finland. Now there you get real dark and light.

My depression is bad in the winter months so I love the clocks going forward.

If the clocks didn’t go back in October it wouldn’t get light until 9am in the middle of winter. That’s what it’s like in Northern France and it’s utterly grim.

YADBU.

I love the change. When the clocks go back, I like the gradual change so its 16:00 when its dark. When the clocks go forward, I like the lovely light in the evening

Just call me splinter arse as I don't want it to change

Last time there was a vote 40% outwith Scotland were in favour of scrapping and 40% within Scotland were in favour of keeping it apparently.

Ah well, might as well keep the trend of dragging us out of things against our wills then.

I'm surprised at the number of people who are affected by the change of just one hour. Seriously, get a grip.

I take it you never go to Europe on holiday because the one hour difference is going to ruin your holiday?

For those wanting to stay on GMT all year round the dawn chorus would start even earlier in the height of summer. I'm not sure I would want that.

I prefer the balance of light to be later in the day so BST suits me better than GMT.
I notice the difference in the west of Ireland where the daylight is about 45 minutes later than my part of the UK and in other places to the west of their time zone.

On a typical gloomy British winter's day, daylight has barely swung into action by 9am so many people go to work/ school in darkness/ twighlight anyway. I'd rather eek the daylight out to 4pm from 3pm as the biggest winners in mid-winter would be children going home from school and doing after school activities. More children make their own way home from school having been dropped off in the morning so better light then over what is usually poor in the morning anyway. When I was working, the only sense of daylight I got was a few minutes at lunchtime. Tinkering around with the clocks brings little practical difference to so many people anyway.

My proposal is to put the clocks forwards on a Tuesday afternoon. Who’d miss that 2.59pm then 4pm, stop stealing an hour from my one day off! Then the clock should change the other way on a Sunday evening, Monday dread? Here have an extra hour of weekend!

“I'd rather eek the daylight out to 4pm from 3pm as the biggest winners in mid-winter would be children going home from school and doing after school activities.”

As an office worker who never leaves before 6pm, having a bit of daylight before work in the winter is essential. Otherwise I wouldn’t see the sun from Sunday afternoon to Saturday morning.

Fluffy, that is an excellent suggestion!

@Loveintokyo it seems more logical the stealing an hour when i’m asleep, take it from a Tuesday which is always crap!

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Arguments for and against on here.

I take it you never go to Europe on holiday because the one hour difference is going to ruin your holiday

I go on holiday and it does not ruin my holiday. Partly because if its in the summer there is plenty of light any way, and partly because being on holiday, I am not trying to get things done in the same way - I am not in a routine. What is more, on holiday in the winter in the south, there are many more hours of daylight and sunlight. Meanwhile it is not so very light at night. Maybe that is why so many people move to the continent to live when they can.

I meant, in the south of Europe, in the summer, it is not so very light at night as it is in the north.

I've never been out of the UK... so I wouldn't know. I can deal with lighter dawns and lighter evenings (that's why you can get blackout blinds).

I still have blackout blinds that I used when my DD was small.Now she's a teenager a little thing like daylight doesn't wake her.

If you did go abroad to a southern country Chip you would perhaps feel like I do - getting off the plane and blinking in the bright sunlight -that winter or summer, compared to the UK, it is as though a blackout blind has just been lifted, and it is an absolutely wonderful feeling.

The problem is not the light, it is lack of it. The farmers need it in the morning on the one hand, and other people would rather have it later in the afternoon during winter to be able to have longer for doing things in natural light on the other. So there is a conflict of interests.