Putting the clocks back

I'm starting to have to get up in the dark already. I'd like the clocks to stay at GMT at all times.

I’d be happy for them to stay at GMT.
Hate the long dark evenings.

My son found an old copy of The South Wales Argus last week under some carpet in his home. Front page news was wondering whether to grant proposed devolved assemblies the power to change their own time zones and change clocks separately from England! Dated July 1976.

This was done 1968,

I don’t work now so it probably wouldn’t make a huge difference in my life but like ginny I hate the long dark evenings. I would be happy to stay on BST.

Anniebach

This was done 1968,

Thank you for identifying the year Anniebach I knew at the back of my mind that there was at least one winter when I was a student at St Andrew’s when I remembered going to lectures in the dark.
(Contrary to many people’s view of students I was awake before noon and at least 3 lectures a week were at 9 o clock ! )

It was miserable eating breakfast in the dark Maw

I would prefer to stay on BST too. Easier for me to say because I'm in central England. In parts of Scotland it would be dark until about 10 am. I'm sure that's why the idea was abandomed in the 1960s.

In WW2 they had double summer time to help the farmers.

Perhaps we need time zones? The most northerly Scottish towns will need something different from Edinburgh/Glasgow, so being earlier or later than England wouldn’t be strange. I would love to stay on BST though as a young child remember the endless evenings of wartime double summer time when being in bed felt like cruelty to children. Don’t suppose anything will change, though the recent research suggesting that teenagers profit from a later start to the school day could be factored in. Think this will stay in the “too difficult” box!

Anniebach

It was miserable eating breakfast in the dark Maw

I agree, but before I retired from teaching I used to be out of the house between 7.30 and 8 and often not home before 6 so I left in the dark and came home in the dark regardless.
I suspect the same would apply to farmers, shift workers, commuters etc.

I really dislike the long,dark evenings so would choose breakfast in the dark

Great idea!

It’s the swings and roundabouts thing, either darker mornings going to work/school but lighter and less dangerous going home or lighter mornings safer traveling to school/work but more dangerous in the evenings.
Here in France we are 1 hour in advance of the sun in winter (BST) and two hours in summer, which I prefer ´cause the evenings are longer in both cases, more than the UK.
Schools start for the 3 to 10 year olds at 8.30 and finish 4.30pm so is both dark in the mornings and evenings. Secondary’s nearly all start 8.00 till 5 pm plus .

I must be odd, as I really do not mind one way or the other.

We have a Scandi DiL and many North Scandi friends, they just do what they have to do regardless of whether it’s light or dark.

I guess it is what you are used to it?

Past caring what the clock says BUT why oh why do we have to change them - ever!