Here We Go Again.

[jambutty]

At 0100 on Sunday the 30th March 2008 we are all obliged to go through the ridiculous annual ritual of moving all clocks, watches and time pieces forward one hour. And then in October we have to put the time back one hour. Its called “Daylight Saving Time” or as we know it in the UK “British Summer Time”.

Why?

What good does it do?

It is daylight before 0700 and stays light until 1900 and as each day goes by it gets light earlier and stays light later. In other words from now on and for the next six months or so there are more daylight hours than there are dark hours.

What is the point?

Who benefits by this annual charade?

It is time to stop messing around with the clocks and either settle for GMT all year round or BST all year round.

[panther]

It doesnt bother me
the only thing is trying to get the kids to sleep on a school night and they dont want to go to sleep because its still light!!
other than that i have no problems with it

[jaysay]

Well JB you see when I go out next Tuesday(god willing)it will be still light, I don't like the dark when I'm sober, but when I'm on the way home I don't give a monkeys

[Lolly]

It works the complete opposite for me. Whereas everyone else will get and extra hour this week, I'll loose it because say its 7am, Harry will think its 8am!! So i'll be getting an hour less!

Apart from that I don't really mind. It makes you feel better that its actually light when I go into work.

[davo69]

should leave the clocks alone

[emzy]

I dont like it, it means the boys get up even earlier!!!

[katex]

Originally Posted by Lolly

It works the complete opposite for me. Whereas everyone else will get and extra hour this week, I'll loose it because say its 7am, Harry will think its 8am!! So i'll be getting an hour less!

No Lolly ? The clocks are going forward so we all lose an hour .. you may still get an hour less, 'cause Harry will react to the light which wakes you up anyway. Am I right ?.. LOL.

No I'm not about the morning bit .. eek.

[grannyclaret]

only thing good about it is""ITS BRITISH SUMMER TIME ""AGAIN.......Yippee i hate winter

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by grannyclaret

only thing good about it is""ITS BRITISH SUMMER TIME ""AGAIN.......Yippee i hate winter

Lets just hope that we get the weather to match the name GC

[MargaretR]

This has been my first winter that I have rarely ventured out.
It has driven me round the twist.
I doubt that I would have any semblance of sanity left if it hadn't been for Accy Web.
Thank you all

[Eric]

We moved ours forward a few weeks ago ... doesn't seem to make much difference, so it's not a big issue. If you don't like it JB, you could move to the Province of Saskatchewan, land of the living skies, where they don't change the clocks. Saskatchewan is not a bad place, friendly folks, and lots of wide open spaces ... about two and a half times as big as England with a population of less than a million ... there are lots of real cowboys there and no shortage of Indians.

[shillelagh]

The farmers are the ones that benefit from having the extra daylight.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

The farmers are the ones that benefit from having the extra daylight.

We don't get extra daylight by moving the clocks. Why mess with the clocks for the minority of farmers when they can just work during the day light, the time does not matter?

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

The farmers are the ones that benefit from having the extra daylight.

There isn't any extra daylight due to the clock change
It is due to the tilt of the earth creating seasons.

Farmers have problems ajusting their cows to new milking times

[Eric]

There's no shortage of farmers in Saskatchewan .... most of the people make their living directly or inderectly off the land. In fact, there are three wheat sheaves on the Provincial coat of arms.