Is there any point to DST ... ?

[Eric]

Well boys and girls, it's that time of year again ... On Sunday at 2:00 am our clocks spring forward one hour. And for you guys, it looks like March 31 ... you seem to be lagging behind us in everything these days I was reading an article (there are lots on the subject; so, I won't post a link) that seems to suggest that for some folks this is not a good idea. Pedestrian fatalities, for example, seem to take a jump. Whether this is owing to sleepy drivers, or equally sleepy pedestrians, nobody seems to know. Insomniacs seem to have a problem adjusting; and, especially on the first day, there is one hour less to sleep away one's hangover.

This idea seems to have originated in WW l in the land of the squareheads. Like starting a couple of wars to take over the welt, this doesn't appear to me to have been one of their better ideas.

Does anyone see any point to continuing daylight savings time?

By the way, when the clocks go ahead in the land of Uk, does the whole country do it? Over here, it seems to kinda optional, with the Province of Saskatchewan and parts of BC just ignoring it.

[Less]

Clocks go forward, clocks go back, at least (at the moment) we don't have double summer time like they had in WWII, though the coalition will probably think it a good idea to apply it to the unemployed, it will give the poor souls more daylight hours to search for that none existent job.

[Margaret Pilkington]

The whole country does it Eric.
Personally I would like them to leave the clocks alone.......I don't really care whether they leave them on BST (which is a misnomer anyway) or GMT........mucking about with the clocks does my body clock no damn good at all.
It disrupts my digestive habits and my sleeping habits.
I would be interested to see what others think though.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Eric

By the way, when the clocks go ahead in the land of Uk, does the whole country do it? Over here, it seems to kinda optional, with the Province of Saskatchewan and parts of BC just ignoring it.

Well I don't think Scotland likes it but I reckon it would be chaos if we didn't all do it.

Doesn't bother me, I'd like to live further north where it's dark all the time for part of the year - I like the cold as well.

[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

The whole country does it Eric.
Personally I would like them to leave the clocks alone.......I don't really care whether they leave them on BST (which is a misnomer anyway) or GMT........mucking about with the clocks does my body clock no damn good at all.
It disrupts my digestive habits and my sleeping habits.
I would be interested to see what others think though.

Who tells all the animals, birds and other creatures that rely on us for their food and care etc, that the clocks have changed, they still rely on mother nature to tell them what time it is, so why do they keep messing with the Bluudy clocks, pick a time and stick to it, the reasons for it have long since passed into history.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I'm with you there Retlaw!

[MargaretR]

As a recluse, with limited contact with people, I never have a set time to do anything, so just 'go with the flow' -
..eat when I'm hungry..sleep when I'm tired.

I am looking forward to more daylight hours because a horrible orange street lamp at the same level as my lounge window really irritates me. I hope that the county will switch to more tolerable LED street lighting soon.

[Less]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

As a recluse, with limited contact with people, I never have a set time to do anything, so just 'go with the flow' -

Being a recluse is surely like living in a backwater, what flow have you got to go with?

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Less

Being a recluse is surely like living in a backwater, what flow have you got to go with?

My circadian rhythm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm

[Margaret Pilkington]

as Retlaw pointed out in his own inimitable way....time is a man-made thing.
Margaret, I am sure that following the 'beat of your own drum' is a much better way of doing....but obviously useless in a commercial world.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

My circadian rhythm

Circadian rhythm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just for a minute I thought that said sarcastic rhythm Margaret

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Eric

especially on the first day, there is one hour less to sleep away one's hangover.

There was a woman who came in my local tried to convince me that you lost an hour every night

[Less]

Originally Posted by jaysay

There was a woman who came in my local tried to convince me that you lost an hour every night

She must have been your local's intellectual.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Less

She must have been your local's intellectual.

No was in the seventies Less, my local was the Railway at the time