Should we have British Summer Time all year around?

[Garden Manager]

The clocks have just gone back today. Do you think this is right, or should we stay at 'british summer time' all year, with perhaps a 'Double Summer time' through the summer months?

The result of this in the winter would be darker mornings but lighter evenings, which IMO would be more usefull.

The 'darker mornings' argument has always been the main objection to changing the current system, but there are ways around this and lets face it you are going to have more hours of darkness in the winter so does it realy matter if its in the morning instead of the evening?

Fellow Gardeners and Lotties, wouldnt you like an extra hour in the afternoon/evening to get stuffdone in the garden/plot?

Scotland has also been an obstacle to change as a well. There is a simple solution to this. Let them go back to GMT on their own if they wish. In these days of devolved government it is perfectly possible for this to happen. They want to run their own affairs. Let 'em!

[Garden Manager]

[undercarriage plan]

Yup, agree, and have voted! Hate the early dark afternoons, would far prefer more light in the evenings.
Lottie

[busy_lizzie]

I hate the dark nights too, and would prefer we remained British summer time all the time.  I pressed the wrong place though, so I have confused things.  :-[ busy_lizzie

[terrace max]

IMO it just gets dark AM and PM in a few weeks anyway so why mess around with it?

Well confused this morning because I checked the time on Teletext when baby woke us up this morning and they hadn't changed their clock!   

[Svea]

i like summer and winter time. leave things as they are run now.
i need light to get me going in the morning, and presumably, so does 50% of the population.....

[Derekthefox]

Yes, I like the lighter evenings, so have voted yes.

However, my preference would be to move onto Central European Time, which would mean Double summer time in the summer ... ie not dark until 11 ish ...

Derekthefox :D

[Derek]

I cannot for the life of me understand why we need to change the clocks at all..

I leave for work at different times each morning and I just adjust my body clock accordingly.
Allegedly it was for the farmers but surely they work hours to suit the animals they look after..and I have yet to see the cows/sheep wearing wrist watches

Derek

[Mrs Ava]

I love it as the nights draw in....why...because the kids go off to sleep earlier!  ;D

[Mimi]

I work shifts so it is dark when I leave the house at 07.15 for an early shift and dark when I come home at 20.30 after a late shift.  Have to say that if i had a choice I would go for keeping the same time as the continent and having double summer time...........oooooooooooooooo barbi's until midnight.  Yummmmmmmmmm Would make winter more bearable to think that the summer would have such long evenings.

[redimp]

My heart says GMT - we did after all invent time and midnight would be at midnight and midday would be at midday...

...but my head says BST all year round - with no changing the clocks at all.

[Bionic Wellies]

BST all the time - last Friday whilst going home (17:45) I realised that it would be the last time for about 6 months that I would be travelling in the light.

So  now I see daylight at lunchtime only (if I go out).  Its hardly surprising that by Februrary most people are feeling a bit depressed.

I could always jet-set around the world, following the sun  .... Nah, to samey!   ;D

[Svea]

if you think you have it bad - try living in finland. not surprisingly, alcoholism and suicide rates are high over there.....

[moonbells]

I don't like summer time - I would rather it be GMT all year. Why? I'm an amateur astonomer as well as a gardener and it means you have to wait up till later to get a dark enough sky in summer to be able to observe. And because I have to get up early, it would mean a significant chunk of sleep time would get eroded.

Double summer time would be terrible.

I have always loved the clocks going back as a signal to winter skies reappearing.

moonbells

[Meg]

I am a not sure.
Used to be the farmers.
Then it was the children going to school and comong back in the dark.
More people getting killed on the roads.
Don't think it really makes much difference to me. Mind you it was nice getting up in the light.

[Dan 2]

NOOOOOO!  :) PLEASE can we not have British Summertime all year round!