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

For two years on the late 60s, as part of an experiment, the clocks didnt go back. We kids walked to school or waited for buses between 8.00 and 9.00, during rush hour and in the dark. Sunrise in Scotland would be between 9.30 and 10.00 in the depth of winter.

It's crucial for children's safety that we continue to change to GMT in autumn to maximise the light during that dangerous morning hour when many kids are making their way unaccompamied to school.

I was training to be a teacher, the year they tried that experiment; I remember dark mornings getting to teaching practice being awkward, and the gloomy start to the day. (I wasn't aware of the road safety statistics at the time). I was living in the Midlands, so further north must have been even more unpleasant.

I remember the experiment when they didn't put them back for a few years in the late 60's. We were all given reflective armbands at primary school to wear whilst walking to school. The majority of children walked themselves to school from a very young age in those days. It wasn't a success because they started putting them back again after a couple of years.

This! I just don’t get what people think they are going to gain. Even without putting the clocks back it would still be dark by the time most people finish work with the added joy of being dark in the mornings. We put the clocks back for a reason!

Ugh, is it coming up to that time of year again? I hate winter. Don’t know though, the dark evenings are horrible but being darker for longer in the morning would be really grim.

Are you joking? How would it save money? You will need the lights on for longer I. The morning then depending where you are in the country you’ll need to switch them on at 4:30 instead of 3:30 gaining precisely nothing!

My favourite day of the year is clocks back day. Extra hours sleep. Bliss.

Yep. Walking to school in the dark that year was a bit grim. Our parents all had to buy reflective sashes that we wore diagonally over our coats so that cars could see us when we crossed the road.

I suspect that kids now would refuse to wear them. And they all wear black or navy jackets and coats, so yes, pedestrian collisions would almost certainly increase significantly if the clocks aren't put back.

I'd prefer the extra hour of daylight in the evening to be honest. So yanbu

I don't know what time your school started, but it was definitely still dark when I got to school.

I thought the whole point of it was for farmers who need the extra light in the mornings?

GMT for me. I hate this clock changing.

I’d love to keep BST. I think in the past they experimented with GMT+2.

That dosent mean I want an 11 year old to do it

It was 2 or 3 years I think, started in the late 60s (I remember that because I was still at school when it started.) If I remember correctly the deaths from road accidents dropped so I don't know why they didn't carry on with it.
I don't know if they ever worked out why deaths/serious injuries dropped.

Dark mornings are worse than dark evenings.

Personally I think we should split the difference, change the clocks by 30 minutes. Announce to the world GMT has moved by 30 mins (make up some batshit excuse) and never ever change the clocks again until the end of time.

I never saw anyone wearing reflective sashes in my city and I caught a bus into the city centre, walked across to the other side and got another bus out. Don't know how many schools I passed but it was a few but no sashes.

Road accidents fell, I don't know if there is details of accidents involving school children.

And your clock will only be wrong for 5 months like mine

My kids walk to school, as do all of their friends. In fact the majority of the high school walk and get buses. As stands now in winter they get off in the light and are home before it gets dark in the evening even if they have an hour extracurricur after school. So no as it stands now they don't walk at all the dark, this would change if the clocks didn't go back

I like the extra hour sleep

Either way you get it being too dark at one end of the day. Personally I prefer lighter mornings, as I feel like the day doesn't really get going until it's light. In the evening, it's heading towards dark and bedtime so I prefer the extra darkness at the end of the day than at the start.
I have also learnt how to change the clock in the car 😂😂

That's an odd perception as in the winter people are walking to/driving home from work in the pitch black when it gets dark at 4.30pm/5pm

It’s dark at 3.30 on the shortest day here.
if the clocks didn’t go back, it would be dark at 2.30 for a huge part of the country.

YABU. I HATE dark mornings.