British Summer Time

I agree suzied I don’t like the long dark evenings,

I m the opposite I look forward to the changes and particularly love to ‘spring’ forward when I know the worst is over
The only problem for me is my NZ son and family change theirs about two or three weeks before we do and it’s a bit muddly 11, 12, or 13 hours ahead until I get used to it again

I see the EU is proposing doing away with daylight saving www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45366390
Whether or not we follow suit (as we will probably be out of EU by the time it is implemented) - who knows? Just another little confusion to add to the mountain!
Yes BlueBelle, I have a son in NZ too and we suffer from the same biannual muddle!

in a nut shell.

I cannot see the point of daylight saving. Just stick to Greeenwich Mean Time. It is simple and unconfusing.

Now we have the 24 hour economy and so many people work shifts, there is nothing to stop individuals adjusting their personal time keeping and just getting up/going to bed to a time table that suits them.

I am on night duty on Saturday night, so I will be working a 13.5 hour shift, and trust me, not everyone sleeps soundly.
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I think in the 70s there was an experiment in not changing the clocks but obviously it was not a success. I lived in the north of Scotland then and children were issued with reflective vests as it was still dark when they were going to school.
The choice is darker mornings or darker evenings. Now I am retired I would prefer darker mornings but that would not suit everyone.

The DGC will be staying but I don't think they'll sleep for an extra hour

I hate it and count down the days until Dec 20th when it starts to pull back out again.

Same here Jalima having fun and sleepover with 2 DGS.
Parents will get a well needed lie in

suzied,i agree.

Think I posted this last year Teetime
I count down until The Winter Solstice and then check the time street lamp across from our house lights up,
I think it's 3 minutes later every night.
By February we are back to lighter evenings instead of dark afternoons.

If we just had British Summer Time all year round, then we would not have Greenwich Mean Time in Greenwich. That sounds a bit silly to me.

I quite like the long dark evenings. All the lights on in the houses around, and us warm and cosy in our own house.

I love the long dark evenings and the cold.

I hate, loathe and dread the clocks changing. I get jet lag! Especially in spring. It takes a good week to get over it!

It makes sense to me to have darker mornings for travelling to school when children are fresh rather than darker evenings when they're tired and inattentive. So BST all year for me.

Hate the dark nights. By Christmas the day seems over by 4.30. I think I shall hibernate.

Teetime, I think you'll find it's from December 21st...obsessive much moi?

I think we're meant to hibernate NanKate

The third week of January there is a little more light late afternoon, not a lot , but some

I taught in a school once where the caretaker’s wife complained all summer about the hour sleep she had lost and was only OK again when she got it back in October!”

I was never convinced by the reasoning behind clock changing! Dark evenings, dark mornings.. either way days are shorter!

Well Jalima I must be on trend. Night night 💤💤

Why are there always people moaning about this at this time of year, but I haven't noticed it in Spring?
British Summer Time is the unnatural one, not Greenwich Mean Time to which we are about to return.