Who actually benefits from changing the clocks?

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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.

Why do we change the entire country’s clocks instead of just sticking to one time and changing the school times to something that works for both winter and summer?

why does school - or work for that matter - start at 830/9?

It’s really bad for health to change the clocks.

It’s really bad for health to change the clocks.

It’s also supposedly bad for one’s health to work irregular shifts, be subject to irregular exposure to daylight, work nights only or worse still chop and change between day and night shifts, yet in the big wide world in many jobs, including many jobs covering essential services, that’s exactly what goes on.

I suspect for many MN’ers a trivial one hour time/shift change, only happening twice a year would be a luxury.

😂😂😂😂😂

the country should not be dictated to by a policy which is mainly a benefit for Scottish farmers.

Thankfully that was never the intention and still isn't today.

But on a population level, which is how policy is determined, it’s a really bad thing.

Individuals don’t come into it.

Awful for insomniacs or people who struggle with sleep too. October is not so bad but I dread the clock change in Spring. The combination of being light so early, getting hotter and the bloody birds starting up at 4 messes me up for months. I'm a Mum too so that adds another layer to it but, tbh my kids sleep far better than I do!

You’re blaming the wrong thing here. It does of course get a bit lighter every morning in the spring, but that’s down to the inevitable changing of the season and not the clock change. The clock change in the spring actually makes it darker for longer in the morning e.g. it’s getting light at 6 when before the change it would have been 5.

I benefit, not walking my kids to school in the dark is great. Also, my kids are unaffected every year by the clock change for some reason!

i would prefer summertime hours, to give me a fighting chance of taking dog to park post-work before it got dark & park was closed (not that I’d go in there in dark anyway). At its worst, it gets dark by 4pm but I don’t finish work & get home until 4.30, so if it stayed light until 5pm it would make a world of difference to me & our dog, and I suspect a whole load of other dog owners & their dogs.
If time change affects only Scottish children why can’t schools there start an hour later? 🤔

So Scottish schools should change their hours, meaning parents would have to alter their working hours/pattern, just so you can walk your dog🤦 There are no words...

Lol. I started this thread but find this reply hilarious

It’s not as unfeasible idea as it seems. Scotland is a separate country anyway, just as France/Germany is, both of whom have different time zones. The extra hour of daylight we’d gain in the afternoon/evening by not moving the clock back would greatly enhance the mood of a lot of people (SAD is especially prevalent in winter), I was just using dog walking as an example that affects me & other dog walkers. So as for your rude ‘there are no words’ comment, you can shove it!

"Scotland is a separate country anyway, just as France/Germany is, both of whom have different time zones."

😕 Mainland France and Germany are both in the same time zone

[The Overseas French Territories (France d'outre-mer) obviously don't follow the same time as mainland France, as they are situated in the American, African or Asian times zones according to their locations]

Staying light until 5, even 5.30, would make not a jot of difference I suspect to the vast majority of people who work standard daytime hours as they get home later than that anyway. Your dog walking time is really quite specific. It’s just as likely many dog walkers, seeing as you’ve raised the subject of dog walking, would rather have the extra daylight in the morning.

Goodness. How do people walk their dogs in Oslo for three months of the year?

Awful for insomniacs or people who struggle with sleep too. October is not so bad but I dread the clock change in Spring. The combination of being light so early, getting hotter and the bloody birds starting up at 4 messes me up for months. I'm a Mum too so that adds another layer to it but, tbh my kids sleep far better than I do!

If the clocks didn't change in March, the bloody birds would be starting at 3. And you sleep an hour later.

Or Trømso which has perpetual darkness for over a month.