MoneySaving Poll: Do you approve of the clocks going back?

Mateylott39

Why can we not use the same as our near neighbours like France. They are always 1 hour ahead of us winter and summer.
Who needs it to be light in the summer at 4 am. Better to stay lighter in the evenings.
Also every time I go on a shopping trip to France or Belgium we have to alter Watches etc.
Go to Euro time.

G6JPG

The option I want isn't offered either: stop messing about with the clock, i. e. leave it alone (I don't really mind where, though I have a slight preference for GMT), but move the hours we work. So for those who work 9 to 5, make it that they work 9 to 5 for some of they year, and then either 10 to 6 or 8 to 4 for the rest.

Or, better, don't move in a big jerk twice a year: move in 15 or 30 minute increments. This would make better use of the daylight.

And for goodness' sake let different regions pick their own times!

I've been saying this for years - decades, I think; I've never understood why we mess with the clocks. At the very least, just change the working hours by an hour twice a year, but as I say above, smaller changes would probably be easier to handle and make less of a wrench.

stevemcol

I get a bit sentimental about this....
GMT is steeped in history. We set the time for the whole world, so should really make an effort to use it at least half the year, if not all.

In the middle of winter if you work 8 till 6 which is probably about average, realistically, it's going to be dark when you finish whether it's GMT or BST. At least with GMT you get some light on your morning commute.

Andysue

So if the majority want it kept on summer time how do we get it changed? I have googled it & cant find anything except a failed attempt!
I hate this last week it has realy messed up my head,

pennypinchUK

Sadly, the matter of GMT/BST has become a political matter.

No party wanted to promote BST all year round before the Scottish referendum as (and it can be seen here in the results of this poll) it would be a vote loser in Scotland.

Labour won't want to promote it because it'll antagonise the base of their supporters in the North and Scotland. The Conservatives will be cautious, as they'd no doubt be loudly slammed in certain noisy quarters for being "uncaring Southern toffs who don't care about 'hard working' Scottish people". The SNP won't campaign to change it as there's no gain for them to do so.

Therefore, although double BST (i.e., time the same as continental Europe) is better for the environment, public safety and the economy, and is in line with the overall will of the people, it won't happen.

julie777

Mateylott39 wrote: »

Why can we not use the same as our near neighbours like France. They are always 1 hour ahead of us winter and summer.
Who needs it to be light in the summer at 4 am. Better to stay lighter in the evenings.

Go to Euro time.

It would give people more time and more incentive to do gardening, exercise or other physical activity after work. The long dark evenings just seem to make us curl up by the TV !!!

There would also be fewer cases of severe SAD.:beer:

Turvey

Why not put the clocks half way between GMT and BST and leave it? ie next Spring put them forward 30 minutes and then just leave it alone! :cool:

gomeraman

You did not give the best option. Keep the summer/winter change but have GMT + 1 in winter and GMT + 2 in summer. That way we also get lighter evenings in summer.

Catpuss66

There was an online support group for this called "lighter later" the last newsletter said that the government were tentivley supporting the daylight saving bill.

The last time it went to the vote some MP"s ( not sure where they were from) locked themselves in the loo so they delayed the vote and the deadline was missed. I wrote a complaint to number 10 ( how can they be allowed to act like that ....no reply)
I would love to get rid of dark long evenings in the winter

wildthing01

I'm not overly bothered whether GMT or BST or BST +1, but just wish we didn't have to change the time twice a year - it messes up the kids' sleep routines (we had several months of 4 am waking one year due to clocks going back) and confuses me (easily done I admit!) And it's a right pain changing the clocks. I realise this is selfish reasoning but there you go. I've never really understood why we do it. What do other countries on the same latitude as us do?