Do we really need the clocks to go back in the autumn?
I know it was done for the farmers during the wars, but with all the modern machinery, that has the huge headlights on, do we really need to move the clocks at all???
In May when they do the first cut and also when they bring the maize in about end September begining Oct the darkness does not seem to stop the farmers working round by me, they will reguarly be in the fields till 11pm at night, lights ablazing, whizzing past my door to the farm and back again to the field!!!
So whats the point of the clock change????
Cabbagepatch
Hmm, an interesting point. However, imagine the wonderful British Government debating this and eventually coming to a decision.... in about 2090........
They decree that British Summer Time is to be no more. The clocks will never be tampered with again. Will we be forever stuck one hour ahead of real time, or one hour behind?
Libby
Ha ha that is good point
Haize
It'd be nicer if mid day actually was mid day...
At very least, surely it would be easier to change the time at which we do things, rather than change the time itself?!
muntjac
my thoughts are the time difference is a british thing. we are losing lots of other things to do with our culture and so called mixed nation policies leave the bst alone . and we farmers and farm workers need to work late into the evenings sometimes because that is the time when the wheat or barley is needing to be harvested due to the moisture levels being right within the seed to wet it rots .to dry it is not usfull for anything but anmal feed and the seed is small and has no flour content
Aqui
I'm definitely glad we're back on GMT now - by mid winter, it's not light until 8am - if we stayed on BST all year then it'd be sunrise at 9am - ie when we all get to work - yuck.
And in the summer if we didn't have BST it'd be light about 3am. That's just wrong.
I heard they were talking about putting us onto Europe time (ie - another hour ahead, throughout the year) - I'm not sure about that either. Then it'd be dark until 9am in winter and light until 11pm in summer (if my brain is working in the right direction, which is unlikely!)
Libby
My mum said it was done so children didn't have to walk to and from school in the dark! I didn't know children walked to school nowadays, I thought they went in a 4x4!!!!
Cabbagepatch
Personally I think it works perfectly well as it is. The EU can shove off. We are ok as we are. And yes, its true, children can go to and from school in daylight. I rest my case
Haize
You still end up getting up in the dark, for normal school hours. It is a bit odd, but then after a few weeks of that, it'd be Christmas.
Wow, I loved long Christmas holidays. University ones were even longer!
