Turning clocks back!!!!!

[sbowler]

Why is it every year we hear the media and MPs calling for us to scrap turning the clocks back!!! There are many valid reasons for doing so, so why dont we get on with it instead of debating the bloody issue year after year. No doubt there will need to be a commitee set up to study it for a few years!!! This country drives you mad at times.

Discuss.

[unique]

because some people want the clocks one way so they can have more light in the evening so they can enjoy themsleves more before it's dark, and it could be safer for kids going home at nite if it's lighter, but on the other hand, the farmers need the clocks to change so they have light in the morning so they can work, and thus provide the country with milk and food and stuff

so as long as there are two reasons for doing it, people are going to argue about it, and as long as it's a slow news period for papers, they are going to write about it

personally if farmers need the light, as they get up at the crack of dawn or earlier already to provide the country with food and milk and stuff, that outweighs the other argument of people wanting it lighter in evenings so they can do more.

[imclueless]

But Farmers already get up in the dark - an hour makes no odds.

[partyweb]

Originally Posted by imclueless

But Farmers already get up in the dark - an hour makes no odds.

And tell me, how many farmers wear watches?

Can't the schools just change their opening & closing times during the winter term? Then everyone will win.

[daveaka]

I like the lighter mornings but hate the darker evenings, its a ball of confusion !.....Scrap clocks all together, thats what i say

[brendan_dj]

I dont understand why we dont leave the clocks as they are all year round.
Leave them at GMT at all times.
Lets be proud of the fact that Greenwich is the central point against which, all clocks are set.

If people want to adjust their schedule to optimise daylight hours, let them.

If areas of high latitude dont want children going to school in the mornings in darkness, simply start school 1 hour later.

If businesses and staff want nice long summer evenings, then change business hours to 8-4 rather than 9-5. That seems to me much simpler.

Getting everybody to change all their clocks twice a year has always seemed a silly concept to me.

It is us humans that should change our times and schedules accordingly. not the clocks.

[Jacob]

It's a bit ironic that you want us to discuss how mad it it makes you that year after year we debate the issue of the merits of changing the clocks!!

Discuss!

[Toasty]

give it a month and it'll be dark in the morning aswell as the evening.

[Jammyb]

I doubt the people who are saying it's simple, just start school and hour earlier/later have got kids. It seems to me that it's pretty hard to coordinate dropping off/picking up kids from school with working full time. Be even harder if they kept changing the hours.

Surely farmers can get up and get on with whatever they need to do whenever they like regardless of what time it is? The rest of us work to schedule imposed by the rest of the world. When I get home from work it's dark and I need to cut my grass, but it's always wet, maybe that something MP's should look into, cutting my grass! They can creosote my fence while they're there, or they could if they hadn't banned creosote....

[lockers]

Why don't we just split the difference? Change the clocks one more time, going forward by half an hour and then just leave it like that.

Surely everyone will be happy?!

[partyweb]

Originally Posted by Jammyb

I doubt the people who are saying it's simple, just start school and hour earlier/later have got kids. It seems to me that it's pretty hard to coordinate dropping off/picking up kids from school with working full time.....

Yup it's mad that people have to go to work at the time we have to take our boys to school. Businesses should start at 10am and shops should all open at 8am. That would ease all the traffic.

[KillerOfThreads]

Originally Posted by brendan_dj

I dont understand why we dont leave the clocks as they are all year round.
Leave them at GMT at all times.

If people want to adjust their schedule to optimise daylight hours, let them..

Sense, common sense and light in the summer till 10 maybe 10.30

I've friends in Scotland who argue it's too dark in winter, too light in summer they like the clocks changing and want it left. I said so change your watch when you cross the border, you do it when you go to Europe and don't moan.

[Praxidike]

Originally Posted by lockers

Why don't we just split the difference? Change the clocks one more time, going forward by half an hour and then just leave it like that.

Surely everyone will be happy?!

That'll confuse the hell out of everyone though, we'd be the only country (that I know of anyway) with a random time - it'd be half past the hour here, whereas in the rest of the world, it'd be on the hour. It'd drive everyone crazy.

I think we should leave it as it is now - at GMT time. Makes the most sense, everywhere recognises GMT, but not everywhere recognises BST (I'm thinking of things like the internet, filling out forms or whatever). So if the clocks have to stay as they are, I think GMT would be the best to keep it at. In the summer, it doesn't make much difference, it's daylight for about 23 hours anyway!

[stealther]

My girlfriend walked home in the dark at 17:30 Last night and she was scared. Are farmers scared to go out in the dark in the morning?

[mason]

Originally Posted by stealther

My girlfriend walked home in the dark at 17:30 Last night and she was scared. Are farmers scared to go out in the dark in the morning?

I would be scared if I was a farmer to go out in the dark..... those scarecrows are freaky looking things!!!!