If the clocks didn’t change, would you prefer BST or GMT?

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If they decided we wasn’t going to change the clocks anymore would you prefer this time staying GMT (being as the summer time has lots of daylight anyway) or would you prefer to always be on BST?

YABU -this time GMT
YANBU- BST

BST. Changing the clocks is pretty archaic in the modern world. I believe the EU plan to stop it and we might have to follow suit.

GMT because I dislike the dark mornings more than I dislike the dark evenings, and it allows most schoolchildren to be able to get to and from school in daylight for most of the year.

BST as well.

Wasn't there talk of not changing the clocks a few years ago.

The idea was discarded, if I remember correctly, because Scottish farmers didn't want so many hours of darkness in the mornings, at least I think that was the reason.

GMT, otherwise it's dark going and coming home from school for kids. I'd rather have bright mornings.

It's still bright at 11 sometimes in the summer which seems a pointless pay off for BST.

BST, the limited light in winter is more practical at 4pm in December when it's dark at 8am anyway.

BST because in the north kids end up going to school in the dark most of winter anyway.

I remember the Scottish farmer argument too. I met a Scottish farmer recently and he said he doesn't care anymore because his tractors are all automated now and self drive over GPS so he'd just get up when it was light and go and check on them then

Being dumb, what difference would it make? Surely it would be the same but shifted by about 3 weeks? So the travelling in the dark mornings would still happen, just three weeks later. And the summer evenings would again be better light it would just peak 3 weeks earlier/later (my brain can’t quite work that out!)

But @GiveMyHeadPeaceffs, presumably if we stayed in BST, those kids in the North would be going to school in the dark for even longer?

BST definitely.

The difference is just about when we have the daylight @GunsNShip. With GMT if gets light at 9am in the North of Scotland. With BST it wouldn’t get light until 10 am. In the South it’s light at 8 am with GMT vs 9 am with BST. AFAIK that’s the reason for switching back to GMT for the winter.

We could split the difference by half an hour and be GMT+0.5 all year round, just to be awkward and out of step with everyone else.

Yabu, GMT please! I hate the dark mornings. I've also lived in Scotland and Northern Ireland where there are a lot of agricultural people. It would be horrible there on permanent BST. It's already dark when people go to work and come home in places like Aberdeen.

GMT - I don't sleep as well in the summer with it still being light at night and getting DS1 to bed is a nightmare as well.

It would be a bit crazy if we didn't use our own standard time of GMT!

Rather than switching time, maybe schools & companies should switch their days instead?

I'm happy with GMT & BST personally.

If there is the option to keep it as we already do; GMT and BST, I'd take that tbh

GMT

GMT.

@Mycatismadeofstringcheese

We could split the difference by half an hour and be GMT+0.5 all year round, just to be awkward and out of step with everyone else.

I remember adjusting my watch by 15 mins to adjust from Nepalese time to Indian time. It is 15 mins out purely to assert their independence

The Trans-Siberian was odd though. It runs on Moscow time throughout and by Lake Bikal thousands of miles east, it was light at 5am and twiglight soon after 2pm! That really was discombobulating!

Still confuses me sometimes (brain not what it used to be) but I've read the explanations here and I'll go with GMT for earlier light in the morning for school children and people who're going to work.

I remember it was said they'd scrap the clock changes in 2021.

GMT because that's what the clock in my car is and I have no idea how to change it.

I live in Scotland. I don't care. Just pick one and stick with it.

On balance GMT. DS would be waking up at 4am in summer otherwise.

GMT all the way. It's the classic time, the original time. We shouldn't change the clocks and I'd accept BST all the time, but GMT would be easier because so much works in UTC (tide tables, flights) that it would be a lot simpler on a day to day basis.

BST as I hate the dark evenings on GMT. Conversely GMT would means it getting light at 2.30am in the height of summer.