Every year, it throws me, the clocks going forward. It isn't the "loss" of the hour that is easily managed it's the evenings suddenly getting longer. It feels so wrong in a way that reverting back to GMT never does. I don't mind going home in the dark, which seems to be the main complaint against GMT where I work, it's cosy and the town looks far better at night than it does by day.
I suppose it is a hang over from being a child, I hated going to bed when it was still light as a small child and that feeling hasn't left me except it's changed to "it should be dark in the evening" And as for the idea of moving to European time no, it's not going to conjure an extra hour of daylight out of somewhere and there isn't really a good reason for doing it. We are now a mostly industrial/post industrial nation we don't need the long evenings to help the farmers as we have hardly any farming left and guess what, combine harvesters come with powerful headlight nowadays.
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I actually enjoy the "longer" days, but it does take me about a week to get used to getting up (technically) one hour early.
ReplyDeleteIt has messed Baby Max up a bit although he is starting to get back into his routine.
ReplyDeleteI like the longer days, it feels as though there is still a bit of the day left after being at work. MMMmmmm must BBQ time soon :-)
As long as it keeps getting warmer I don't mind what time it is. But I was an hour late for a pint at the "Shaggy Sheep" on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have daylight savings here in WA because apparently that "extra hour" will cause cows to give off milk, fade your curtains and cause your little darlings to suffer enourmous heat stroke from walking home from school in the heat. There are at least another dozen stupid reasons that people will swear are true. It is a good thing this country can play sport, cause Job Bloggs is certainly no mental giant.
ReplyDeleteI hate all this clock silliness. WHY mess with the clocks at all? When people tell me "it makes the day longer" I usually ask them "so you think that the clock on your wall controls the speed the Earth rotates at?"
ReplyDeleteIf I were king, I would abolish daylight savings time.
There is one good thing about daylight saving, in the depths of autumn, when you're at your most depressed, you get an extra hour in bed. Of course you get an hour less in spring (technically it should be so nice out that you are leaping out of bed early - yeah right) but you can't have everything.
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