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.

So probably not really anything to do with the clock change then?!

Wow OP are you always this cranky or just when there's a clock change? Chill 😎

I accidentally put the roast on at 9am on Sunday. Not cool, clocks. Not cool.

Not just in Scotland - it was only getting light here at 7.30 last week and I am in the south of England. By December it would still have been dark at 8.30 or even later.

I think we do need to change the clocks back but we should put them forward again in early March rather than late March.

If we have to choose, I'd go for BST, though. It is much better to have the daylight in the evenings, especially for womens' safety. I know they can get attacked in broad daylight, but it is less likely. Interestingly there was an item on it on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning. About 6.55am if anyone wants to listen back.

It is. Well, south-west. Not immediately west.

My child who would normally be up by now is still fast asleep 🙌🏻🎉🙌🏻

@shockwaze ☕? 🍫? 🚬? Please take one

I like the change of clock. It just feels good and normal.

It seems to make no difference to me, with regard to leaving the house in the morning. I leave the house at about 6/6.20, and it was still dark yesterday 🤷‍♀️

I've never understood how it helps farmers. It doesn't change the available number of hours of light in the day, and they tend to start the day before the sun comes up for most of the year anyway. It probably helped in the days of unlit milking parlours, but that hasn't applied for a long time.

Didn’t they test not changing clocks decades ago and lots of kids had accidents going to school as they were sleepy/dozy and it was dark?

Op you seem super angry with the world and everyone in it 😂 your posts are quite angry and erratic. You also aren’t really getting any valid points across I don’t think because you’re being so argumentative.

I wish they'd just leave the clocks as we are now. I'm on annual leave this week. We've all been waking up before 6.

This morning yes, I would say you're spot on.

SCOTLAND, otherwise children walk to school in total darkness.

Me. I hate getting up in the dark.

Also…not changing the clocks would leave it at GMT all the time…so BST wouldn’t exist. So this time would just be the time the whole time, which would mean that summer was not amazing in my opinion. It would get dark pretty early for summer months.

Dd1 starts school at 8.30 finishes at 3. Last week was half term but the week before she was leaving at 7.20 and it was only just starting to become light. With the clocks change she gets another month of going to school and coming home in the light for her full journey. Much safer.

Probably not the time to post nonsensical arguments on a forum then…

This. It's a great thing when you have teenagers who struggle to get up.

And anyone who struggles with dark afternoons does not.

I have three children aged 6-14 and I don't remember being at all bothered by clock changes. I think it must just be people who have a very rigid parenting style/very fixed bedtimes. There's good and bad to changing the clocks...I prefer getting up in the light but hate the darker nights...but I don't really expect the world to be run fir my convenience so just adapt.

Wasn't there talk of them scrapping the clock change a few years back? But then it was shelved due to the pandemic?

It benefits my son, and all other paper boys who are now cycling around in the light not the dark. I assume it's good for anyone who has to be up and out early in the morning. For people who don't have to get up so early it's not so beneficial.

I never understand the 'farmers' argument. We have the same amount of daylight whatever the clock says and farmers are generally free to keep their own hours, so can just do what they need, no matter what the time is. The majority of the country is disadvantaged for a tiny minority of the population.

Daylight is usually more appreciated in the afternoon/early evening because, in the morning, most people are just getting up and going to work/school, but in the afternoon, it extends the time they can go to the park on the way home or whatever.