Changing clocks - Do You Care?

it takes me several weeks to adjust, as my body has it's own internal clock ...

I still go to bed and fall asleep at the same time and wake up at the same time (body clock time)

 

I don't like the sudden change it brings, whoomph----its dark at 5 O'clock.

 

Wish someone would explain that to the scottish farmers ! Why don't they just get up an hour later. The current proposal to alter GMT to allow for lighter nights will definately be vetoed by Alex salmond the SNP leader. :gaagh:
I am going to hate tonight when it goes dark at 5 :(

 

I don't really mind to be honest. There just numbers on a clock to me :D
A few extra hours in the day would be nice though.

 

i do when i am working nights lol

 

Silly question but why couldn't we change and let Scotland do what they want?

 

I think it's totally stupid, as Jiffy says, you don't get 'extra' daylight.

Farmers (at least those near us), work pretty much 24/7; their cows don't know (and care less) about 'clock times' they just want milking every day whether it's dark or not and during 'difficult' summers, the farmers have been out on their machines cutting cereal crops well into the night using the headlights on their combine harvesters.

Wasn't there was one year when 'they' decided not to change the clocks but the argument for returning to this daft idea was, as Shiney has said, to 'protect' children and people walking to work. Who 'walks' anywhere these days? Certainly not children to school since it can take me 20 minutes or more to get out of my village because of all the wretched women aiming their cars in the general direction of the schools and then just randomly stopping to let some neanderthal out.

Now I have a theory about this ....

Surely, these children will have to make at least one journey in the dark? Be it going to school or home afterwards. Does it not therefore make sense to have the 'dark' journey in the morning when people are more alert than during the evening, when they're tired and their minds are on just getting home, getting dinner, going out, watching TV and doing all the other things we do in the evening?

Uh-ho .... just realised the flaw in this argument. Y'see when I was at school we started at 8.30 a.m. and finished and 4 p.m. (we often made both journeys in the dark) - now they seem to drag their sorry arses in anything up to 9 a.m. and by 3.00 p.m. they're done for the day and half-way home. No wonder half of 'em leave school illiterate, they're not there long enough to learn owt.

 

My body clock goes into hibernation mode when the days get darker early and the weather gets colder and less sun light so putting the clocks back doesn't help me one bit, i just seem to want to go to bed at 8pm now rather than 9pm My choice would be to stop changing time.

 

At this time of year I always think that I have too many clocks!!!!:DOH:

Val

 

I'll second that! Five done including the boiler clock, also two watches. The clock in the car yet to be sorted.

Thank goodness I don't have to alter the phones and computers as well.

 

Yes, you're right gcc, the clocks were left one year as an experiment, obviously it wasn't liked. The powers that be also thought about trying it again this year, but changed their minds!

 

+1.

Every year Mrs Scrungee wants to join the dog & hens and stay on GMT all year round (she doesn't change the clock in her car). I suppose ignoring BSTwould make using tide timetables easier. I'll just get up 'earlier'.