Changing times

I don't understand your post Roy, as daylight saving is in the summer, not the winter.

Winter time is GMT, which is our standard time. Summer time is GMT+1 which is an hour ahead of winter and also known as daylight saving time.

If we stopped changing the clocks in spring and stayed on GMT, sunrise would still be at 8.45  in winter in Scotland. In summer sunrise would be an hour earlier than it is currently and we would have an hour's less light in the evening, but I wouldn't mind that. I prefer it to be dark for a while before going to bed as it helps with sleeping, and if early morning sunrises wake you too early you can always get a blackout blind.

When you say that without changing the clocks winter mornings would be unsafe, I think you're referring to the group who wanted the UK to stay on summer time all year - but I would propose we stay on winter time all year, as GMT is our correct time zone and it would not cause unsafe winter mornings.

Even though my phone, laptop and radio alarm clock change automatically, plus the clock in the living room I always feel a sense of loss of time when they change - even when they move backwards!

Children rarely walk to school these days and what's the difference between going to school in the dark and coming home in the dark?

I do wonder if Scotland shouldn't be able to set it's own times or even be in a different time zone?

When I was on Skye I felt quite virtuous seeing sunrise every day, there are problems at the other end of the year too, it's still broad daylight at 11pm and the sun dips briefly below the horrizon for a couple hours and it never gets properly dark. People go a bit crazy in summer because you never really switch off and don't sleep properly.

Even here, it's gets fully dark around 11:30pm in midsummer, my Dad who was an early to bed, early to rise person, said he felt like a little boy again gping to bed whilst it was still light.

There is an interesting thing with the automated clock changes. We have one clock that changes correctly. The one on our boiler timer is always ahead of time, so changed an hour ahead of that. (I have tried correcting manually, but it defaults back). 

My smartphone changed to an hour later, but loses time, so I often have to correct it. For this reason I always wear a watch when out. 

I will be like a house end if that happens, much as it would be a laugh,Marianne72 

 that means 3 times as many meals [like the Mad Hatter's tea party].

I am now part way through changing all the clocks in the house and have stopped for a brew. If I lose track of where I was up to, which is quite likely, I could end up with three time zones in one house!

In mid winter, some areas of Scotland don’t get light until 8.45am, this is with the daylight saving hour. Without it school children would be going to school in the dark as sunrise wouldn’t be until 9.45. The government felt this was unsafe.

In wartime the clocks were alerted by 2 hours.

If the muppets will insist that cutting a foot from the bottom of a blanket and sewing it to the top actually makes a bigger blanket?? at least be consistent and change the clocks the same number of weeks after the winter solstice as before it. In other words change the clocks at the end of February not a month late.

I agree they should stop messing around the clocks changing. I ending up eating a hour later, which isn't ideal and get anxious and irritable. The lighter evenings are all ready happening. 

Discombobulation now for me for several days.

‘The Times They Are A-Changin'

Summer Time? It still feels like Winter.

While the US South has a Heatwave.

Ever felt like we backed the wrong Horse?

Easier in autumn for forgetful folks like me to be an hour early for things rather than now to be an hour late!

Better take the batteries out - at least stopped clocks are right twice a day!

I’d forgotten! Thanks for the reminder!

What you mean like mine? lol, I think the tv timer changes itself and my pooter, but none of the others do, not even my phone, at least the clock in my car will tell the right time again, almost, every clock in our house tells a different time!

It's confusing, I work with people in parts of the world that don't change their clocks, it can get confusing for scheduling meetings! 

It seems really archaic. Inevitably people forget and think of all the historic houses where the clocks have to be re set by hand.