UK Clock Change

The best cure for the clocks-back-an-hour blues is to invest in a SAD light. There are lots of them on the market, at various proce levels. The Independent has a review list of ten of them at www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/gadgets-tech/best-sad-lamps-light-therapy-seasonal-affective-disorder-lumie-how-to-treat-a6839106.html

It always amuses me when this topic comes up (which it does every year) and some people think that by messing about with clock times THEY CAN CREATE MORE DAYLIGHT!! Sorry for shouting but it is so ridiculous. Winter daylight hours cannot be lengthened, no matter how much you moan about it.

gentleshores

I mean - does anyone actually like it? I don't think so!

I do

The subject comes up soemwhere or other every year. And has done for decades.
And every year it stays the same as always.
No matter how many debates there are.

I fall asleep reading and if waken early I read again. I can be awake about 4 am, terrible sleeping but I get the kindle out and usually nod off again. Can't recall the last time I went to bed at 10 pm, usually 12.30 - 1 am.

argymargy

It always amuses me when this topic comes up (which it does every year) and some people think that by messing about with clock times THEY CAN CREATE MORE DAYLIGHT!! Sorry for shouting but it is so ridiculous. Winter daylight hours cannot be lengthened, no matter how much you moan about it.

It is all because the earth is not flat! It isn't even straight, but turns daily on its tilted axis, and as it goes around the sun in its yearly cycle that axis stays tilted at the same angle - so in half of the year the northern half of the earth gets more sun that the southern part, resulting in a northern summer and a southern winter, in the other half the southern part gets the bigger share, resulting in a southern summer and northern winter.

I wonder how flat-earthers explain the changing seasons? It must tax their powers of imagination to come up with an explanation.

fancythat

gentleshores

I mean - does anyone actually like it? I don't think so!

I do

Me too. An extra hour in bed the first day, and lighter mornings than would otherwise be the case for the whole winter is all good.

gentleshores

I mean - does anyone actually like it? I don't think so!

I like it - in both March and October, I find that I am naturally waking up earlier/ later in the weeks leading up to the changing of the clocks, so I am really pleased when the official time changes to match that.

I love the clocks changing. OK not so much the weekend when we 'lose' the hour at BST but love the lighter evenings and anyone who claims to care about climate change must welcome the better timing, and consequent use of the daylight hours in summer.