🇬🇧 🕰️ The clocks go back tonight 🕰️ 🇬🇧

No, it’s next week.

I guess Britain is not the U.S. We wait until after Halloween so fewer kids get run over in the dark trick and treating.

I like this time of year. Nice and cosy.

R1 it's this weekend.

For fuck sake. It's this weekend in UK (and EU?) and next weekend 11/3/2024 in the US.

People in the UK will need to remember that they will be four hours earlier than Eastern, instead of five, until DST ends in the U.S.

I mean I used the Union Jack and explicitly said British people!!!

Has the UK considered dumping the practice?

R8 There have been attempts yes. There was a 'lighter longer' campaign, though it got a bit muddled as some supporters of it wanted us to stay on summertime all year around (ie GMT+1) whereas others thought we should be in the same time zone as continental Europe (GMT+2).

Unfortunately it summoned all the old cunts who claimed the last time it was tried (in the 1970s) it was awful and dangerous, despite no statistics supporting that point of view. I wrote to my MP asking if I could rely on him voting in favour of the Bill, but as he was also an old cunt, his response made it clear he didn't support it.

That was about 10 years ago now and no one's tried since. We're too stuck in our ways.

The argument has always been made for children’s safety - going to school and coming home when it’s light saves lives.

Scotland have a grievance and want to do their own thing but who cares.

Roll on spring!

It usually boils down to "but what about farmers????" the same ones who get up before dark anyway.

Tick tock

Sorry I mean they get up before it's light.

Apologies, OP.

I wish we'd get rid of it here.

I wish we'd just use EU time. A lot of kids get dropped off at school when their parent got to work, but come home on their own so it would make much more sense these days to have more light in the afternoon. I loathe it when the clocks change.

The biggest danger are the two days a year when we make the shift. Accidents soar.

Pick one or the other.

Going to work or to school in the dark is worse because people are already stressed out trying to get there on time. I say dump the daylight savings.

I prefer the clock change as I have to leave the house by 7am. Much better in light for as long as possible. Don't mind coming home in the dark as it makes for a cozy evening where I don't feel guilty about jumping into bed for a nap.

[quote]The biggest danger are the two days a year when we make the shift. Accidents soar.

Do you have any data to back this up?

[quote]Going to work or to school in the dark is worse because people are already stressed out trying to get there on time. I say dump the daylight savings.

The whole point of daylight savings is so people have more light in the mornings for the commute and kids going to school. The clocks go forward in spring when the mornings are light anyway and we get more daylight in the evenings.

It's a silly relic leftover from WW1 to conserve energy during wartime. That was over a 100 years ago, time to move on.

It's 5.30pm and it's dark.

I WANT TO CRY

8 weeks of getting worse until it starts getting better!

The odd part is that my night owls (some of whom are dealing with dementia) are actively cool with time change night. They’re the ones who know where all the clocks are located.

OK, I have to walk around and reset everything before I leave because they adjust the clocks multiple times and we’re not allowed to break the laws of time.

Here in the US, the clocks may go back 500 years on Nov. 5.

I thought this bullshit was banned.

I know people bitch and moan about this either way, but it really does put daylight hours in just the right place, winter and summer. I don’t want 4am sunrises in summer or 9am in winter. Been changing clocks for 60 years now and it’s fine.

Italy is five hours ahead now for a week. I need to get to bed because my brain thinks it's 1:20

I had no idea other countries did this! Here we blame it on old Ben Franklin, patriot, dammit!

R28 Loads of countries do... pretty much all of Europe does, along with North America and Australia/NZ.

It's even more confusing working out time differences between UK/NA and Aus/NZ because when the northern hemisphere moves their clocks backwards, Aus and NZ move theirs forwards (and vice versa). And the movement is done on different dates.

I think part of the reluctance to move the UK time zone is because - as GMT is the home of time - some feel we should be on GMT at least some of the year.

Next week in the US and am not looking forward to it.

There's been discussion about getting rid of it, since agriculture was a big reason behind its initial creation and we no longer have as much of our economy based in agriculture. But no changes yet.

Not R17 but per the University of Surrey, vehicular accidents drop by 13% the day after DST starts in the spring and increase by the same percentage when it ends in the fall.

R31 How weird because this research says the reverse. The switch to DST is worse while the switch back did not. It used to be that both adjustments were bad but this research says just the one in the spring is. They theorize it might be due to drowsyness, not lighting.

Also kind of weird why is a University of Surrey research based on Greek drivers? Maybe the Greeks just stay home and sleep the day after.

R31 - So are we to deduce that it's the same 13% who just don't know how to drive at night?