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

IceAngel

I have SAD. I dread the clocks going back as it knocks me completely out of kilter for about a month. Dark mornings don't bother me but dark evenings cause me real problems, even with a light box.

lulu_92

I've recently started driving and I am terrified of my drive home from work now because there are no street lights on long sections of the a50. Combine that with no speed cameras there's no wonder it's a death trap!

cumbriayellow

The lighter the evenings the better. As a rural delivery driver I am in the depot sorting out parcels in the early morning so a dark morning does not matter but trying to find premises to deliver to in the dark at the end of the day is a nightmare especially at this time of year when I do a lot of deliveries to private homes (xmas prezzies etc) that I do not know as I do not deliver on a regular basis. (and they don't have house nameplates) Lighter evening means I can stay out longer and deliver all you lovely people your parcels. Even better let's move Christmas to the middle of summer then we will have till midnight to deliver your prezzies. (The last bit was a joke. It is not my intention to start a religious argument)

jnm21

cumbriayellow wrote: »

The lighter the evenings the better. As a rural delivery driver I am in the depot sorting out parcels in the early morning so a dark morning does not matter but trying to find premises to deliver to in the dark at the end of the day is a nightmare especially at this time of year when I do a lot of deliveries to private homes (xmas prezzies etc) that I do not know as I do not deliver on a regular basis. (and they don't have house nameplates) Lighter evening means I can stay out longer and deliver all you lovely people your parcels. Even better let's move Christmas to the middle of summer then we will have till midnight to deliver your prezzies. (The last bit was a joke. It is not my intention to start a religious argument)

Regarding the placement of Christmas, my understanding is that it was done to tempt Pagans away from the Winter Solstice!

Imagine the damage to the pub trade if we moved it - no more paying over the odds to eat at stupid times in December!

jnm21

Hariva wrote: »

Greenwich mean time (GMT) is based on this planet's relationship to the solar system. Our human biological circadian rhythms evolved over the millennia to be in sync with this revolving planet. Modern man who has been around for less than the blink of an eye, seems to think he can tinker with the laws of physics and biology any time he likes for his benefit, but there are always unforeseen consequences to our meddling. Our modern lives are increasingly artificial, but at least for six months of the year we are in sync with our solar system. Let's make it 12 months and keep GMT!

Sorry to point out that 99% of the UK is not the same longitude as Greenwich...

stevemcol

jnm21, agreed but 90% of the UK is closer than 6° to the prime meridian, so less than 25mins displaced in time. (willing to be proven wrong on that..Northern Ireland and the Hebrides might blow a hole in my estimate).

Yorkie2 quote "Most people finish around 4.30pm or 5pm (or 4pm Fridays is common)" ........Nice work if you can get it. But even using BST in late Nov, early Dec, it will go dark during your commute home. On your hypothectical early Friday finish, you might get 30mins of daylight at home. It will almost certainly be dark in the mornings though.

G6JPG

I see at least two support me: leave the clocks alone (I'd suggest GMT, but not really bothered which), and change the hours we work - so part of the year we work 9 to 5, the rest 8 to 4 or 10 to 6. Or move in shorter jumps, say two to four times as often as we do now.

I take the point of the person who didn't like my idea of letting regions pick their own hours because it would make it difficult for businesses to contact each other, although (a) I don't see that as a huge problem - the "core" hours would still be reasonable, it's not like we're as wide as the USA - and (b) some of our more extreme regions I think already do this anyway, whatever the rest of us want; but even if the "change days" were common across the nation(s), I still don't see why we have to change the clocks, only the numbers. Changing the clocks seems to me like something out of the dark ages, and to imply that people are too stupid to understand the concept of changing hours, which I don't think they really are. (I'd say of the few who do find the concept difficult, I'd imagine a similar proportion find the present system as confusing. If not more.)

Hoipolloi

I would vote for change.

mapk

Only if it makes me younger