Who actually benefits from changing the clocks?

[shockwaze]

Kids up at 5:30. Pretty sure that the same thing has happened in many, many houses this morning.

It's just an hour, but so disruptive to children.

Who benefits? Winds me up every year.

I would rather it dark until 9am than dark at 3.30pm. Yesterday it was dark at 2.30 and I had to put the light on

I'm pretty sure it was the weather making it dark at 2.30 not the fact the close have changed!

*clocks

Agree with this. I can't believe some people are so self-absorbed and child-centric that they genuinely think the clocks should not be changed because it disrupts their child's routine.
I know this may be news to some, but there have always been children - this generation is honestly not the first to produce offspring

And the problem with that is what?

I'd be happy to stay on GMT year round (which is the "proper time") because in Scotland we have long, light evenings in the summer anyway. During BST it doesn't get dark till after 11pm at the height of summer.

Why should the UK change to BST in the summer so that you lot down south have lighter evenings?

This OP! @shockwaze

Farmers always get the blame but we are out working before it’s daylight and still working when it’s dark anyway so makes no difference 🤷‍♀️ don’t imagine there are many farmers working only in the daylight hours

I love it
Easier to get up in the morning and makes the evenings feel longer
So you get more done in a day

Far too sensible.

I'd prefer light evenings, so would tourist attractions I'd guess, so would retailers.

I would accept year round GMT as better than what we have now though. I don't want people to die in road crashes.

Im waking my usual time but feeling disorientated like i am late for something important. It also feels too light now when i wake up because the shorter days havent quite caught up with putting the clocks back. Usually i would not even notice it, but this time it is shit.

I am going to post this at intervals because people don't read the whole thread. I have already posted twice. The origins of the clock change have absolutely NOTHING to do with farmers. https://chislehurst-society.org.uk/pages/about/people/william-willett-daylight-saving-and-british-summer-time/#:~:text=In%201916%2C%20as%20a%20measure,the%201925%20Summer%20Time%20Act.

Ravers benefit, if it’s October. Extra hour in the club / disused warehouse.

Ironic that your name is truthseeker when you talk such nonsense.

Is it really worth having more heart attacks, strokes and road accidents from changing the clocks twice a year, so that people in the south can have lighter evenings in the summer? Plus the difficulties for people with small children, or some of them.

I’m in the south and I’d rather just stay on GMT. I don’t like feeling worse and then adjusting whenever the clocks change.

I'm in the West Country and I actually agree with you. BST needs abolished . Keep it same all year round. Win win situation.

IME those who name themselves truth seekers tend to be more conspiracy theorists than people who have a grasp on the truth.

It benefits me because I live in a country that doesn't have daylight savings and now means it's easier to chat to my parents after work when it's 10pm your time and not 11pm.

But you know... I appreciate its shit for you all.

I think it makes the evenings seem much much shorter. It's difficult to be motivated to do much when it is dark and dreary so early

Same with the hour though. It literally makes no difference what the clock says.
I’m in favour of permanent GMT though. We are, after all, straddling the Greenwich meridian.

People will die in road crashes anyway unfortunately, because so many people drive like absolute pricks.

But that's another thread.

Have to say this thread has been an absolute eye opener. Can't believe the difference a single hour's change has on people.

It keeps these blokes in a job ...

Abandoning clock changes is a one of the most politically popular ideas but no one actually wants to vote to have it ended for some reason. The idea was to provide more daylight hours during normal working day time so as to help farmers and military manufacturers during WW2 when electricity and lights themselves were more expensive relative to productive output. That argument has gone right out the window due to energy efficient lights going up even in the most remote of farms, so the precedent reasons are null and void. US state Arizona did away with it and the world kept going, don't know why we can't all stop the nonsense starting with NOT changing the clocks ahead this spring.

It's not about daylight during the working day - during the summertime it's easily light from 9-5 or indeed 8-6 so makes no real odds. It's about people not having to turn their lights on in the evening. Very very few people would be making use of the daylight at 3:30 GMT in June, but a lot of people will benefit from being out and about at 8pm GMT/ 9pm BST and (in times of fuel rationing) not having to use house lights for that extra hour saves money and energy.

OP, unless this is very tongue in cheek, you are very selfish.
My children never had any problems. All the windows in the bedrooms have curtains with blackout linings. Maybe you should consider this.