Clocks Back No More?

[Chil1234]

Putting Clocks Back Damages Our Health

Seeing as it's autumn, thought it was time for a perennial old chestnut. Seems to be increasing calls from various organisations for us to harmonise our time-zone with the rest of Europe for reasons as varying as health, CO2 emissions and road safety to name a few. I support the idea.

As it's the Scots that usually put up the biggest objections, perhaps they could keep to the old system and we'd put our watches back on crossing the border.

Very practical for such a small island .

There's already a mini thread on this

here

I might sound a bit dim here but I always thought they went back and forth because of the farmers.

Was I told a lie years ago?

Not just the farmers. Daylight saving is quite common across the world but I think what is being discussed atm is what time UK (or UnUK) what our basic time zone should be........

Ours go back in Belgium too.

Its not a bad idea. The problem is that we don't live our lives symmetrically about mid-day - if we did we'd rise at about 4 and go to bed at about 8. In reality its more like 6-10 or 7-11 so shifting the clocks makes sense.

Or we could all just start school/work earlier and shift TV schedules forward - I don't know why that is psychologically just wrong!

I don't mind the clocks going forward and back so much... well apart from that mild 'jet-lag' you feel for a day or two afterwards... but I do a lot of business in mainland Europe and it always seems daft that we're an hour adrift despite being in the same longitude band as Spain, France, Benelux etc. And I don't understand the Scottish objection given that Oslo is several hundred miles north of Aberdeen but also in the GMT+1 European time-zone.

Although I think it makes sense, my own reservation is that it'd make working with the US that bit harder, especially the West coast

When it was tried before, the the 70s, people didn't like it because it meant children walking to school in the dark. But noow hardly any children walk to school so I think that arguement has lost its clout.

But that would mean going out in the cold and dark in the mornings .

Personally I'd rather have some daylight before work and come home in the dark. I'm much more fuzzy headed in the mornings, more darkness wouldn't help.