Clocks going back

Is it time we did away with this pretty antiquated custom? I once read that the first Monday after we changed the clocks had a marked spike in accidents.

It’s high time we stopped whining about it every six months. 🙂

Presumably if we did do away with it, it would be going forward we’d get shut of rather than back. And honestly, unless it was done globally it’d probably cause more problems than it solved.

And honestly, unless it was done globally it’d probably cause more problems than it solved.

Why would it cause issues globally? Majority of countries dont change their clocks.  Admittedly be awkward for people dealing a lot with Europe but even then not overly difficult to adapt to.

In the west of Ireland we change the clocks but it gets dark at the latest at 5pm But back in blighty, down sarf 4pm. Just seems pointless nowadays.

Jeezus. Not this again.

Indeed. Didn’t we do this yesterday?

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Majority of countries dont change their clocks.

No, but many do.

Didn’t the majority of the EU countries decide to do away with the time changes recently?

I think we would need to stay GMT+1 all year round which would probably defeat the GMT line. Screwed up face confused emoji.

Yeah, technically Spain is in the wrong time zone according to longitude… but they were just like “**** it” … deal with it.

im more for a change forward around the mid/end of feb – that is when the light evening start to pick up

Why would it cause issues globally?

Because our neighbouring countries are x hours different. Eg, the East coast of the US is -5 hours from UK time regardless of whether we’re on GMT or BST.

I think we would need to stay GMT+1 all year round which would probably defeat the GMT line.

Use UTC as the baseline instead.

Eg, the East coast of the US is -5 hours from UK time regardless of whether we’re on GMT or BST.

Not true. They change their clocks on different dates to us.

Yeah, but there’s like a week difference.

*some* years the Septics change their locks at a different date to us. But not every year. But any way it’s irrelevant in the 21st century as technology means you can avoid **** up what time it is.

However we should change to CET so we’re aligned with our closest (and largest) trading countries- ie western Europe – France, Germany, Italy, Spain especially.

Need to stop having the tail (Jocks and farmers)  wagging the dog.