AIBU to think we should NOT put the clocks back this year ?

[BirmaBrite]

Apart from the fact that it means the clock in the car will be wrong for six months, I just think it is a faff that doesn't give any benefit to the vast majority of people.

YABU - just change the clocks you snowflake

YANBU - It's daft and we shouldn't do it anymore

i live in Scotland and its daylight by 8.15 in deepest winter.

The children are usually home from school by then though whereas morning rush hour coincides with morning school run which is why it's beneficial to have lighter mornings.

I hate waking up in the dark, and also there's that one glorious Sunday morning when we get an extra hour (I know, I know, April is a different story.)

I live in Northumberland and these are the recorded sunrise times for December last year, bearing in mind this is after the clocks went back an hour so to see what time it would be light without the clocks going back you'd need to add an hour.

Most mornings it's around 830am so would be 930am in winter. Where are you in Scotland that the sun rises earlier than it does further South?

"No, live about 2-3 hours north of Nottingham."

What a strange way to describe where you live 🤣

Waa that in the 70,s ?
I think I vaguely remember.

Well they're walking/driving home in the dark once the clocks change so what difference if the mornings or evenings are darker.

Then why when I am walking out of Glasgow Central at 8.35 is still just getting light?

Agree keep them the same no point it's only an hour x

Not all DC are driven to school, at our three local schools over 70% of pupils walk as the majority live within walking distance and only a tiny few are from out of area.

GMT is pretty much centred on the school day - in December it's just about possible for those at school locally to do both journeys in the light. It makes sense to worry more about the morning rush hour than the evening one, because that's when there's more overlap between school and work journeys, so the greatest numbers of people on the move.

I heard the eu are getting rid of it and some parts of the states-domnt know when thugh

I work nights so the extra hour drags on until the end of time

Keep them as they are. A lot of kids still walk/cycle to school, including the kamikaze teens near me pulling wheelies along a busy lane without helmets or lights. We already have accidents and near-misses on an almost daily-basis in daylight as it is (their journey to school coincides with my primary school run so I see this in action every day).

If we remain on BST all year round, sunrise here in York would be at 0920 on 21st December rather than 0820 on GMT.

At the end of the schoolday (wheelies, no lights or helmets on their way home), sunset is 1543 under GMT which is after school kick-out time of 1515.

Much safer to switch to GMT for the winter months.

It was fine. It was so much better and quite honestly if you can't drive in the dark, you shouldn't be driving. It was light before school time and lovely daylight for children after school. I was living in the south though.

Exactly this. No thanks.

Sunrise 8.55 here in late December/early January and we are not even that far north. Imagine if that was 9.55!

That's what I was told too. Especially accidents for children going to school, I think.

And my car clock will be correct. It changes itself.

people don't miss sleep in OCTOBER they gain an hour!

I want my extra hour of sleep and for wanting to take that away from me YABVU.

however I would happily just not bother to put them forward in spring

Not in the context of this thread I don't think.

Nope, that would mean both getting to work and leaving work in the dark for most of the winter. At least with the clocks back we see a bit of daylight in the morning (Aberdeenshire).

Kids catching school bus in the dark on mornings, no thanks. I live rurally and lots of kids have a bit of a walk to get the morning bus.

I left my car clock one year. One week before the clocks were due to change back I took the car in for service and the garage corrected the clock. One week of being right and then it was back to wrong again for the next six months...

Would potentially save households a lot of electricity on lighting.