Putting the clocks back

it does make me wonder..how many poeple actualy sit up until 2-00am to put them back..lol I'm sure some do! I do mine the following morning,

Yes long dark nights...but the way I look at it is..a day nearer Spring!!

Now that's taking glass half-full-ness to the extreme, biker!

In spite of living in the North of Scotland I would rather stick to BST all year round as I think the dark evenings are so depressing and off-putting for going out in (sorry about the grammar - good grammar is incompatible with ). Here we have full daylight from roughly 8.45 until 3.15 on a dark mid-December day, which would be 9.45 - 4.15 under BST. Pretty horrible, but the children would get home from school in daylight and so would workers at an earlier stage in the new year. I'm sure people are more alert in the mornings and more able to cope with the morning rush hour in the dark than the evening one, but this is not the general idea here, I know.

What I don't understand is why the clocks go back at less than 2 months before the winter solstice but they don't go forward again until over 3 months after. If they went forward in February it would be more cheerful and we would enjoy lighter evenings earlier.

Hate putting the clocks back. It should be banned. British Summer Time sounds so much happier, we should stick to it all year!

I heard on the radio today that there are around 600 more deaths and serious injuries through changing back to GMT after the experimental trial of keeping BST.

DH is, as I write, going round sorting all the clocks of the house out. I confess to loving all the seasons. Clocks moving hither and thither don't bother me.There's something from each season to look forward to and cherish. I'm not coming over all Pollyanna but I see positive aspects to all different times of the year. Whether the clocks move backwards or forwards, it's all part of a big cycle. Sorry, this is me after a couple of glasses of vino, feeling cosy. I just love the snuggly wrapped up comfort of Autumn and Winter and then the freshness of Spring to look forward to.

I'm useless in the mornings, and have to leave for work at 8am. If it was pitch black at that time I guarantee I'd crash every morning!
Hate dark evenings too, but hate dark mornings even more.
At least once Christmas is out of the way you can start counting the minutes to lighter nights. Down here on the South coast, I reckon on 15 minutes per week, so by the end of January it's still light at 5, and by the end of February still light at 6, then it's only a couple of weeks until BST. Always the optimist

Rosiebee I'm like you, I love the cosiness of hunkering down in winter and then really love the onset of spring.

I prefer lighter mornings. I naturally sleep until it's daylight and if I have to get up in the dark it makes my SAD worse. So if the clocks don't go back I'd be in bed most of the morning.

When told the reason for daylight savings time the Old Indian said, "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."

WHO DARED UTTER THE C WORD?

I put all the clocks and timers back last night, well, this morning really, at 02.00 to 01.00. Went to bed and DH, first up, changed all the clocks at 08.00, but put some forward by mistake.

Does this sound like one of these problems we used to get in arithmatic?

Now that he has nodded off watching the really exciting Grand Prix, I shall creep about putting them all to rights. Thank goodness for the computer which I assume is showing the correct time, as I have no idea which clocks are right.

Granny23 that's priceless

I'm with you there jeni stay on patrol!

I'm glad my pooter knows what the proper time is. I'm hopless at knowing if the time should go backwards or forwards or if I've gained or lost time; time no longer springs to mind.

'Puter says it's 16.36 and it's bloomin well dark. Feels like 17.36 to me.

Nfk It isn't actually dark yet – but I agree it's on its way.

There are only so many hours of daylight (and dark for that matter) at any time of year, so I just go with the flow.

Ok, not quite dark. But 'orrible and cold and miserable. Wherever the sun is it must be over the yard arm, I think there's a bottle in the fridge calling me!

Nfk Tonight is another "red wine supper" so I have already opened a bottle to breathe. Cheers.

agree is not best time of year!!

however we away for fun time next weekend and still on high from India so life can be good, just do not think any of us relish the thought of cold dark winter nights!!

still fire on, heating on, nice hot casseroles on cold days, and after my hot bath (been in garden!) am cooking roast chicken!!
let it snow let it snow, well not yet maybe!!

I am miserable and cold!

It snowed – lightly – where I live on Friday night. Bit early in the year, I reckon.

I am cold and miserable and tired! And I have to get up early tomorrow to take my neighbour to the hospital in Oxford.
Boooo.

oh gosh are you up in Scotland then?/ must admit was very cold trying set the pansies, mad or what.