The changing of the clocks

[jesusbuiltmycar]

oyster said:

Zoobeef said:

BST should be all year round or, maybe even better, GMT+1 in the winter(BST) and GMT+2 in the summer!

Why on earth would you need daylight at/beyond 11pm?

Why on earth would you need daylight at 5am?

[Cotty]

Shuvi McTupya said:

I have owned my current car for three years. The clock has been wrong the entire time..

I have a watch.

At least if it was broken it would be correct twice a day.

[Moonhawk]

I wonder do people in other countries have this discussion twice a year.

Many countries are in exactly the same boat as we are (any country +/- 1 Hours and +/- 15 degrees longitude).

The real issue here is that our modern lives have not been built around the available daylight.

For example - my normal day starts around 7am and ends around midnight (with work 9-5ish). That means a normal day is around 16-17 hours - yet midday (the point at which the sun crosses the zenith) occurs 5 hours into my normal day. Only around 30% of my normal day occurs before midday, the remaining 70% afterwards.

If midday where to truly be the middle of the day - then I should be getting up around 4am and going to bed at around 8-9pm. The standard working day should be 6-2.

[Don]

Moonhawk said:

I should be getting up around 4am and going to bed at around 8-9pm. The standard working day should be 6-2.

I actually do this each summer. I'm often up before 5:00am. I get on with things in the quiet morning hours then go to work. I get home by 5:00pm. Often in bed by 9:00pm.