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.

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.

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.