So if they go with the plans of not putting the clocks back

[seb1]

Sunrise will be 10am here in the winter it is 8:15am at the moment and I hate getting up in the dark, think I will need to hibernate.

Whoever is making the decision better get on with it - aren't they changing this weekend?

Think it is to start from next year if it goes ahead.

yep on sunday at 2am.....ahhhh a nice lie in for me

I'd rather get up in the dark to get an extra hour of light in the afternoon.

It's talked about every year, never happens. As you say some won't see sunrise until 10am. I couldn't live with that.

BBc article and sunset would be after 11:00pm in the summer, note to buy shares in blackout lining company, a fortune to be made there

I remember them doing this for a year when I was a girl. It was ghastly. It was never light until after I was in school, and for part of the year, was still dark by the time I got home (I had quite a long journey).

I find it very difficult to get up before daylight at the best of times, and like seb, would probably just hibernate all winter.

god, I love the dark evenings. Hate anyone who disagrees with me on this issue

I hate arriving at work and it's still pitch black.

My friend who is only a bit older than me remembers walking his brother to school in the pitch dark in the late 60's/early 70's I think? IIRC it was a trial for 3 or 4 years he said?

Gah, I hate this idea, seems ridiculous. As it is I have to drive to work in the dark after the beginng of October (and I leave at 7am). I look forward to the clock change - it just gives a few more weeks of slightly lighter mornings, and a less perilous drive to work when it's frosty and foggy.

Nooo! I love saving my hour this Sunday! I don't do the clocks until it's about 4pm in the afternoon! That way, just as the Sunday night feeling is kicking in, I give myself another hour! Perfect!

It's been dark when I go to work for weeks anyway, so that doesn't bother me.

isn't there always plans for this every year?

Oh no, not this one again. It's already hard enough getting the dcs to sleep in the summer without it being light until nearly midnight.

And then there's the winter mornings. At least I get some time before work when it's light. If they push this through, I won't get any time out of work when it's light.

You'd still get your "extra" hour in Autumn as the proposal is to go onto European Central Time - so you'd be an hour extra all year year round and still putting the clocks forward/back in Spring/Autumn.

Personally, I'd like it - in winter (when I was working in an office) I was going into work in the dark at 8 anyway and then coming home in the dark, but at least at the weekends it would feel like we got more daylight, as it would be light later in the afternoon.

And it would save lives, as it would mean that ds, when he is cycling home from afterschool club, wouldn't be cycling in the dangerous twilight at 4.30.

The similar "half" light in the morning is less dangerous as drivers are generally more alert at that time.

I believe that was the finding from the trial back in the 60s (which I can remember). And the roads have only go busier since then, so more lives would be saved.

I'm in Scotland BTW and am for it :)

You all need sunrise alarm clocks.

There's a streetlight just outside our bedroom window so we have very thick blinds, so even in summer it's dark in the mornings in our bedroom. Gentle light-switching-on alarm clock is fantastic.

I prefer the dark evenings, I don't care in the winter if I don't have an extra hour of daylight.
I just close the curtains and snuggle up.

Trills you are right. Couldn't we have some gadget to do this in all rooms? Light evenings/afternoons are more use than light mornings.