Changing times

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.

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.

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.