Within 24 hours my journey home from work has been plunged into darkness.
Apparently according to propaganda this is safer for children travelling to school.
My experience is that many children are bussed or driven to school - and in fact are more at risk as they play out in the street in the dark when they are home in the evening!
Meanwhile I am subject to drivers who fail to dip their lights, or double the dazzle as drivers drive
illegally with their fog lights on.
The worst conditions are when it rains - and in the absence of wipers my glasses stop all forward vision when confronted with on coming traffic!
But enough about me.
ROSPA say that the changing hour on our clocks results in more accidents on the road.
In Russia, they say there are more suicides at this time of year - although I cannot think what mechanism causes that.
However, the Russians ARE sufficiently worked up about it to STOP changing the clocks - instead choosing to remain in permanent summer time.
I have long advocated this.
Changing the clocks is the most stupid course of action ever invented. What on earth possessed people to think they could change time by changing a clock?
Animals and young children continue to wake up at the same time of day - even I woke up at the same time this morning as I have all week.
The sun still came up and went down at nearly exactly the time it did yesterday.
However, all over the world, millions of clocks and watches have been altered... and they were not all conveniently on the mantleshelf!
Shift workers working overnight had to finish early to keep the shifts on track. Of course in March they will have to work an EXTRA hour to change it back!
A few hapless souls will have got up early - even turned up for work early. Some may even have adjusted their clocks the wrong way and arisen/turned up TWO hours early!
In March, a number will be similarly LATE getting up or getting to work!
Patients on time dependent medicines will have had to delay their next course - and of course will have to get up an hour earlier in March.
Many people have told me they welcome the extra hour in bed - but it is Sunday - you are free to take the extra hour if you wish any way - but you will have an hour LESS in March like it or not!
So, WHY WHY WHY do we do this?
Scottish farmers want it?
They will NOT get an hour of extra daylight - today the daylight is no different to what it would have been whatever the clock reads.
It is time to end this nonsense now - see sense like Russia.
Discuss....