B S T - Why Are We Waiting

[sunny-dave]

Much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere is changing to Summertime this weekend.

But we are stuck in the benighted GMT for another fortnight.

Even if you accept that we need GMT in the core of the winter (I don't accept that, but can see that others do), the overall period of 'winter time' is far too long - especially at the Spring end.

It's already light well before 6am, even moving the hour would only delay daylight until about 6:50am and we could have an extra (useful) hour of daylight in the early evening - light until 7:40pm or thereabouts.

Instead we are wasting daylight when any sensible person is either asleep or moving on autopilot to get to work.

[emmie]

no idea, however we should not change clocks back when summer is over, let us keep BST, it makes most people happier i feel. it does me..

[Jackdaw33]

Tried that 1968 - 1971. Didn't work. In the far north it was almost ten a.m. before daylight.

[sunny-dave]

I agree entirely, emmie.

All the evidence (road accidents etc) says we'd be better staying on BST - it seems we all are inconvenienced for the sake of a few farmers ...

[mikey4444]

Why do we do it all Dave ?

The main reason has been explained in the past, is that the poor cots would be eating their porridge ( with SALT on ! ) in pitch darkness.

Given their wish to separate from the rest of in the UK, lets keep our clocks the same and let them eat cake
( in the dark ! )

[Jackdaw33]

What's wrong with salt on porridge? That's how I like it and I ain't Scottish.

[emmie]

mikey, now now, however i do wish we could keep the longer days,

[ichkeria]

Whatever you do you aren't going to change the amount of daylight.
I like things the way they are personally, but the essential truth remains the same.

[emmie]

Ichkeria, but it does give us longer days, with longer daylight.

[jno]

it isn't the clocks that make me feel happy, it's the sun. No matter what time zone today is in, it's grey all day, and adjusting Big Ben isn't going to help.

[emmie]

jno, we do get the sun, not today perhaps but yesterday and the day before that. we probably get more sun than we realise.

[emmie]

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/United-Kingdom/annual-sunshine.php

[jno]

maybe, but it wasn't caused by clocks.

[emmie]

i totally agree with sunny dave, sorry we would be a whole lot happier i feel if we left it when spring happens.

[ichkeria]

I can only repeat what I said earlier: the days get longer ;and shorter) of their own accord. If you are an early bird you'll get the light mornings. Not everyone gets what they want but lighter evenings and darker mornings occur the further north and west you go: so it's a trade off. What will suit one area won't necessarily suit another.

[sunny-dave]

I know I can't change the day length (only God and Mrs Thatcher could do that) - I'd just like more of the available daylight used when most people are up and about, rather than alseep in their beds.

[hereIam]

I like it the way it is, we get loads and loads of daylight when spring/summer starts proper and the winter period is much shorter, but then again I don't mind the dark nights ...

[Fitzer]

Much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere? I know the US and Canada moved this weekend, who else?