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

[Rainbowheart1]

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

@FluffyBooBoo

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

Same here. It really makes no difference.

GMT. (God's Marvellous Time, as a friend used to call it). I like dark evenings, and I love it when the clocks go back.

@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.

Except India. They’re already offset by 30 minutes from most time zones.

BST, no contest.

I said GMT up thread but tbh anything is better than the agony of when the clocks go forward!

Don't care which one, toss a coin, just stop bloody changing it so I don't have to lose an hour's sleep in spring and fail to remember how to change the clock in the car so put up with it only being correct for six months of the year.

Definitely BST. I'm from the North Highlands and we'd go to school in the dark and come home in the dark for three months or so. So we only got to go outside at weekends for a quarter of the year.
If it was BST through the winter we'd have had half an hour of daylight after school even on the darkest days which would have made so much difference to our wellbeing.

I’d go with GMT. It doesn’t really bother me either way tbh but that is the proper time and dd’s body clock seems to run to GMT so it’s much better for her 🤷‍♀️

That said, I’m a massive fan of the suggestion of GMT +0.5. Just to be contrary and compromising all at the same time

BST for me, please. I’m not an early riser, so more daylight in the mornings isn’t important to me, but more daylight in the evenings would be great.

If we do have to keep changing the clocks, we should change forward at the end of Feb, not the end of March. For the U.K. to still be on GMT during spring is ridiculous.

Definitely BST. If we were on GMT all year round then sunset wouldn’t even get as late as 20:30 here in the height of summer. Fuck that!

Plus the clocks only changed at the weekend, and sunset is already 16:32. I won’t get home from work in daylight again until February.

BST, because then my son would wake ay 7am instead of 6am.

BST for me - sorry not sorry to all my northern friends

GMT, because there's no need for it to be so bright so late in the summer.

BST without a doubt! It'll be dark by 4 in a months time and that's so so grim.

GMT

BST. Love the long late light evenings.

Hate it getting dark late afternoon in the winter.

GMT because on BST I'd be having to get up in the dark for 6 months of the year instead of 2 months.

GMT because I’m i. Scotland. In the midwinter it doesn’t get light until about 9am and would be about 10am on BST. We don’t need it to be light so late in summer.

Surely this thread implies that the great British public cannot even decide decisively on this simple question, so it should probably stay the same as it is.

I really don't mind changing the clocks. I quite like it as a quirky twice yearly ritual and something to look forward to as the seasons change. No biggy for me!

GMT

I remember with horror the double summer time experiment in the late 1960s. Went to school before dawn and I don't remember it being light when I went home either.

Utterly miserable

Surely this thread implies that the great British public cannot even decide decisively on this simple question, so it should probably stay the same as it is.

Yes, happy for it to stay as is but the OP was asking which you'd choose if it couldn't.

I believe the EU is bringing in a law saying countries have to stay on a year-round time. I'm normally as 'remain' as we come but I hope that since we have left we don't have to do this.

@ditavonteesed

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

Mine too. But I would prefer BST as we have much more evening light in April and August/September with it. I just need to learn how to change the car clock :)

However, I think we should keep the change but switch back to BST at the end of Feb instead of March.

@Finzi

But *@80sMum*, it would still be light in the evenings in June if we kept to GMT all year. Would you really like it to be dark until 9-10 am in the winter?

yes but only until 9pm instead of 10pm - that makes a difference.

But where it's significant is in April, and in August/September.

BST. Yes it's a bit more tricky to get up in a morning with the dark mornings but so much nicer to feel you have a bit longer to enjoy your day after work