It bothers me, I hate winter time. Why can't it be summer time all year? It has been proved that it would save electricity. I am not a morning person and this time of year is the big garden clear up but it gets dark so early after the clock change. I hate the dark evenings.
I used to keep Jersey cows, they didn't mind summer time, they just didn't like the change of clocks. Had to do it bit by bit.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Our beef cattle neighbour tells me his dairy farmer pals start adjusting milking times a week or two in advance so the cows aren't hanging around an extra hour with bursting udders when the clocks do go back.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
@Obelixx maybe us humans should follow this example and start adjusting our daily routine gradually rather than by one full hour on the given date. And no, I'm not going to elaborate on bursting udders.
What bugs me is that people complain only about the clocks going back in autumn and campaign to ditch it. But it is the summer's BST that is the new fangled bit. In autumn we go back to the 'normal time' - GMT. If we stick with BST we will have basically decided that we don't like the way that time always was and want to shift it. If we should ditch anything, it's the BST addition. We don't need it any more.
What bugs me is that people complain only about the clocks going back in autumn and campaign to ditch it. But it is the summer's BST that is the new fangled bit. In autumn we go back to the 'normal time' - GMT. If we stick with BST we will have basically decided that we don't like the way that time always was and want to shift it. If we should ditch anything, it's the BST addition. We don't need it any more.
Precisely
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I dont sleep much either fter retiring from 25 years of nights, but it has been worse, going to bed at 3 am, awake by 5. Does my Hubby in, last night he was alseep by 8 pm, (on the sofa) up at 300, instead of 4/5 then hes got a 40 mile drive. I forgot about the acutual clocks, his alarm, the phones, his car, not sure if the microwave and cooker adjust or he did it. Just as bad when they go back.We bought some wireles alarm clocks a few years back, they set themselves to a beacon abroad because it was aparently nearer than the UK one, so they were returned!
What bugs me is that people complain only about the clocks going back in autumn and campaign to ditch it. But it is the summer's BST that is the new fangled bit. In autumn we go back to the 'normal time' - GMT. If we stick with BST we will have basically decided that we don't like the way that time always was and want to shift it. If we should ditch anything, it's the BST addition. We don't need it any more.
Just because it's the original state of affairs, doesn't necessarily make it better. Surely you've notice that folk only complain when the clocks go back? I've never heard anyone complain in Spring: " Oh damn this clock change , we'll have have long sunny evenings to contend with" In my entire life,I've not heard one single person complain when the clocks go forward.
It's all a construct ... if we want lighter evenings we can go to work earlier in the morning ... I know that it needs some organising (possibly on a big scale) but if the will is there it can be done ...
However, we do have to start from a base ... the established base for measuring time across the globe is GMT.
What we can't do is to alter the seasons so that we have more daylight hours in the winter ... some people I've come across (present company on the forum excepted) fail to understand this ... some folk seem to think that they're actually being willfully deprived of daylight
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's all a construct ... if we want lighter evenings we can go to work earlier in the morning ... I know that it needs some organising (possibly on a big scale) but if the will is there it can be done ...
Yes I'm not sure why Chris Martin's Grandfather how ever many times removed didn't just start his golf game earlier?
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Precisely @raisingirl ... what we need is more flexibility in the way we organise our lives. I know it's more difficult for people who go to work to be flexible, but I keep coming across retired folk who still live their lives according to the clock ... I get up when I'm properly awake and go to bed when my eyes begin shutting on the sofa.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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It bothers me, I hate winter time. Why can't it be summer time all year? It has been proved that it would save electricity. I am not a morning person and this time of year is the big garden clear up but it gets dark so early after the clock change. I hate the dark evenings.
I used to keep Jersey cows, they didn't mind summer time, they just didn't like the change of clocks. Had to do it bit by bit.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Surely you've notice that folk only complain when the clocks go back? I've never heard anyone complain in Spring:
" Oh damn this clock change , we'll have have long sunny evenings to contend with"
In my entire life,I've not heard one single person complain when the clocks go forward.
However, we do have to start from a base ... the established base for measuring time across the globe is GMT.
What we can't do is to alter the seasons so that we have more daylight hours in the winter ... some people I've come across (present company on the forum excepted) fail to understand this ... some folk seem to think that they're actually being willfully deprived of daylight
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.