Clock Change

I'm not a great campaigner but I really get annoyed with the effect of the clock change (or lack of it). Why aren't we back on summertime now? We're the same time past the shortest day as we were before it when the clocks went back. (Hope that makes sense - End Oct - 21 Dec = 22 Dec - now)

It's light before 7am, so that would give us light at 8 for getting to work/the school run and we'd be light in the evenings till nearly 7.

I can't help feeling we're losing out on good walking/gardening/sporting etc opportunities and I have a feeling that, overall, we might save energy too. I feel as though 7 hours a week is being withheld...almost equivalent to a weekend day.

Any views, or will you be content to wait till end March?

it is just beginning to get light here in the morning at 8am but it should get lighter soon.

It depends whereabouts in the uk you are I think as to what you think about the clocks changing.

sorry posted twice ops:

I like the short days, I dont know why but I like it when it gets dark! :smt101

Im a bit like that I love the dark nights with the curtains closed and the fire on.

Yeah I know what you mean, Its really cosy and relaxing

I quite like it when we do the 'draw the curtains, be cosy and safe indoors in November' thing, but now it's getting spring-like, the bulbs are flowering, and I want more daylight at the time I can enjoy it.

I'd like more daylight too, and warmer weather. The only good thing about the winter is curling up on the sofa with a bottle of wine.

Roll on longer days and warm nights

At the moment, way up here in the sub-Arctic we're light by about 7.30 am and dark again by about 5.15 pm (approximately).

Dispensing with BST wouldn't make much of a difference in the summer (which has daylight of nearly 23 hours), but it would in winter, as it would be dark by about 2.30 pm - far more dangerous for schoolkids coming home. The general view here is that the current system is best left alone!

Abolishing the one hour change was tried back in the 1970s: you can tell how successful it was by the fact that they changed it back again!

Snorri

i cant wait till it is light in the evenings makes my life so muh more bearable and i never get up when its dark anyway