Should we stop clocks going back?

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This practice is outdated, no longer needed (farmers have lights on their farming equipment etc). The country would reduce energy costs as we would not need to turn on the lights so soon in the evening.

AIBU to want to the UK to choose a time and stick with it?

No thanks. I’d rather they stayed on GMT all year round and we got rid of BST.

I just think that the UK would be better with having a standard time, whether that is BST or BST +1. Pick either and leave it alone. Sounds as if BST is the better of the two for daylight in the mornings. So clocks moved back 1 hour then not moved forward in the Spring...

I've been looking forward to my extra hour for weeks, so absolutely not.

If we must stay on one time, it needs to be GMT, not BST, as dark mornings are simply not healthy.

In the north of the uk it would be awful.

No, I adore the dark evenings.

UK would be better with having a standard time

we do - its called GMT. It is the world standard from which all other times are calculated.

BST is British Summer Time

Sounds as if BST is the better of the two for daylight in the mornings. So clocks moved back 1 hour then not moved forward in the Spring...

No, it's the other way round. GMT gives lighter mornings.

The sun will rise at 8am where I am on Saturday (last day of BST)
8am will become 7am when the clocks go back one hour on Sunday.

If they move back and don't move forward in Spring we will stay on GMT.

As stated, that would be better than staying on BST but on the whole I would rather stay with the system of changing them, although I think we should move them back earlier so it is split evenly rather than 5 months on GMT and 7 on BST at present.

YANBU, there is more that I can do with a lighter evening that a lighter morning. Mornings are just taken up with getting ready for work so doesn't make much difference on the light. Evenings however.....

I'm old enough to remember when they tried this as an experiment. We were all issued with velcro fluorescent arm bands to wear on our school coats as it was dark going to school in the mornings.

Nope. I don't want my12 year old standing at the bus stop in the dark.

Looking forward to the clocks going back. It's dark at 7am already. Imagine how dark it would be in the morning at 8am in December?

We should stay on GMT year-round. We are half an hour behind London time. It's still pitch black at 7.30. I can't wait till the clocks go back.

No it would feel like getting up in the middle of the night to me.

If we did this in the North of Scotland we’d be almost constantly in the dark! For example my sundown time today is 1745, in the middle of winter is starts getting dark around 3 in the afternoon!

No. Leave things alone.

This a million times over!!!

OP is alright Jack though...

NO!

I hate the dark mornings. Don't put them forward by all means

Or just north of Birmingham probably!

It doesn't get light here (in NE Wales) until about 7.30am currently. If the clocks didn't go back it would be dark until 10am in December.

My kids left for school at 7.40am but got in by 3.50pm. Apart from the week before Christmas they left and returned in the light (that last week it didn't get light until 7.50 or so)

I quite like midday being at midday and I hate long, dark mornings. They make it really hard to get going.

It always throws me when the clocks change. The time always feels wrong... but I've lived in countries where they don't change them and that was worse.

Current reasons for seasonal time change are about road and child safety, not farming.

Come back to us when you're better informed.

No it wouldn't work. Secondarys have extracurricular. If the school day finished at 4.30 then extracurricular would finish at 5.30 leaving the kids to walk home and get buses in the dark.

It’s interesting to me seeing people say they don’t want their kids travelling in the dark. In the north this is very normal already. Especially after school, and in mid winter morning too.

For those further south in mid winter what time does it stay dark until in the morning?

Late 1960s IIRC. It was miserable going to school in the dark and TBH, I don't recall any benefit to it staying light for longer.