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Anyone old enough to confirm or deny this one?

During WW2 the UK went onto double BST during the summer and stayed on BST during the winter.

I had heard about this before (no I'm not old enough) and I found this on Google; go to paragraph 3.

www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/british-time/

Chantal wrote:I had heard about this before (no I'm not old enough) and I found this on Google; go to paragraph 3.

www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/british-time/

Thanks, old girl.

Alan....I do understand what you are saying but what I can't get my head round is why change the clocks...it doesn't change the amount of daylight hours

Its alright I just get cranky during the change over periods when it messes up my finely tuned body clock...it takes me a couple of weeks to adjust... I'll be OK next week

My Governor has learned over the years to tolerate my quirks....it still irritates her when I insist on changing all the clocks in the house the night before

Dear Weed you could always just change half the clocks, then surely you will have the best of both worlds, or am i missing something.

Weed wrote:...I do understand what you are saying but what I can't get my head round is why change the clocks...it doesn't change the amount of daylight hours....

It shifts their position in our waking day.

Thus making the "extra" hours available to those who get up earlier than the majority, such as OH and JB.

And me.....I love the early mornings and am often out around six in the morning....or was it seven

Sorry that was last week

I'm with KG Admin on this one - leave us in BST all year please.

I cant see many advantages,all day Sunday my stomach thought my throat had been cut,By Monday night our 7 year old was hysterical being over tired.The evenings are now cold,clammy,dark and depressing.Instead of a gradual onset of winter its just right there in yer face overnight.
Is there anyone in favour of this?If there is what are the reasons?..S.T.

I wonder if there's any link between the clocks coming forward and the number of people rushing to their doctor's surgeries with complaints of depression and feeling tired all the time. The moment it gets dark my natural inclination is that the day is finished and I want to clear off to bed.

I would much rather have my daylight in the afternoon than the morning. Big article in the Sunday times about how much co2 could be reduced by keeping to BST.
Arthur e

Daughter awake (wide awake!) at 4-30 this morning,everyone grumpy as hell, me and the missus had a barney,brilliant this is not a normal situation for us!..S.T.

It usually takes me over a month to adjust each time we change the clocks. I never use an alarm clock (unless I have a train/plane to catch), I just wake up at the right time and I'm now waking up an hour early

Even worse is poor Rosie who never has got to grips with the clocks changing. Her little body clock demands (lots of ) cat food irrespective of what the government says the time is and she wakes me up to wait on her.

I lived in N Scotland (Aberdeen) during the last experiment - shows my age.

Dark till 10am.. I was a student with 9am lectures.. it was NOT nice.


I did not like it: along with 99.999999% of the rest of th population.

I find the change no problems. Set the clocks the night before... (I have a copy of the key manual page beside the hot water programmer)..


My body clock accustoms itself after the first morning run.

Turkeys do not like it: they refuse to co-operate in going to bed.. but this is entirely norma. They would roost in the trees given half a chance. At least in the winter I'm not woken at 4.30am by sparrows having sex, sparrows discussing sex, sparrows making nests, sparrows having more sex, sparrows laying eggs, sparrows hatching eggs, sparrows feeding young, sparrows giving flying lessons to young, blackbirds having sex, blackbirds discussing sex.. etc...

The clocks changing never really affects me, as i never wear a watch anyway.

Dear Madasafish, i know what you mean about birds, they are exactly the same round my way.