Summertime ends next Saturday.

[mo]

Clocks go back next Saturday.
Oh I wish they would leave it as it is. We have soo many clocks watches to alter, and those even darker nights we could do without.

[drogo]

Most of my clocks are radio-controlled so they automatically adjust themselves.

[Rowan]

I was wondering when it was we put them back - for the life of me I never remember!

I don't like the dark mornings.

[Lacemaker]

We put our clocks forward for summertime a fortnight ago.

[Anya]

Aaaaawwwww Hazel, can I move in with you, for a bit? I'm quite handy, can cut yer grass, carry yer bags?

In the 1970s, as experiment, the clocks did not jump. It was dark in the mornings until nearly 10 am and car accident figures went through the sky, especially for children walking to school.

Main cause was given that drivers were still half asleep, whilst they are more aware in the afternoon, even if it is dark.

[drogo]

In the 1970s, as experiment, the clocks did not jump. It was dark in the mornings until nearly 10 am and car accident figures went through the sky, especially for children walking to school.

Main cause was given that drivers were still half asleep, whilst they are more aware in the afternoon, even if it is dark.

Your memory has let you down.
According to the ROSPA website summertime_briefing:

"The most recent research estimates that adopting Single/Double Summer Time in the
UK would result in around 450 fewer road deaths and serious injuries, including
between 104 and 138 fewer deaths.

"This confirms earlier research which showed that the 1968/71 experiment, when British
Standard Time (GMT + 1) was employed all year round (the clocks were advanced in
March 1968 and not put back until October 1971) saved around 2,500 deaths and
serious injuries each year of the trial period."

Again, according to the ROSPA website, there are more accidents in the afternoon traffic peak than in the morning.

During that experiment it was only dark in the mornings until nearly 10 am in those areas where it is dark in the morning until 9 am during GMT.

[Monsy]

Spring forward
Fall back

That's how I remember anyway.........

*helpful*

[Rowan]

I remember that Monsy - just don't remember when!

[Anya]

It was not my memory. Different reports about the experiment in the 1970s seem to give different figures. I remember people being most unhappy about it and the system was reinstated.

[Lacemaker]

...... Aaaaawwwww Hazel, can I move in with you, for a bit? I'm quite handy, can cut yer grass, carry yer bags? ........

Any time, Anya.

[drogo]

It was not my memory. Different reports about the experiment in the 1970s seem to give different figures. I remember people being most unhappy about it and the system was reinstated.

Do produce some figures to support your point of view and refute those published by ROSPA.

[Dragon Lady]

There has been a lot of argument in the media about this. It seems whatever happens, we will still need to alter our clocks. What nobody has said is the way the alteration of clocks adversely affects your digestive system when mealtimes come around either an hour earlier or an hour later. I know it can affect me quite badly. Do others have this problem?

[Victors Mate]

I get up when I wake up, I go to bed when I am tired and I eat when I'm hungry. I refuse to be a slave to the clock. I AM RETIRED.

[mo]

I'm forever clock watching.

[Anya]

You can see discussion of increased accidents during the early experiment - attributed to morning darkness - in this report by a Cambridge group.

http://fullfact.org/articles/?id=94&sel=articlelist