Clock change most likely will be abandoned

[Skybird]

About time. I always need to 7-10 days to fully adapt to the new time schemes, especially the chnage in spring. I hate it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45366390

[Jimbuna]

Doesn't particularly bother me either way but it is interesting to note that Italy and the UK had the lowest number of responses.

Could be the forerunner to a change from GMT to EUMT

[Dowly]

Suits me either way, barely notice it anyway.

[Skybird]

I am quite sensitive to spring tireness. The clock change just adds to that, for me. Tireness over the day and a longer nap at afternoon are the results.


I could live without all that.


Farmers say their animals, especially egg-chicken and milk cows, are irritated and produce less milk or smaller eggs for some time after each change, too.


Think I am lucky that I do not produce any of the two - just grumpy mood...

[Dowly]

I don't buy that farmer thing.. how would the chickens etc. know what time it is? I'd imagine they go by the brightness or irtental clock.

[Skybird]

Nature knows many ways to keep all plants and animals in rythms and tacts. Corals spawning simultaneously, down to the minute - even in covered nights when there is no moon to be seen beign just one fon bthe most fascinating examples to me.



The chicke3n does not care for the3 clock. But an inner rythm it got used to and maybe that it even has in its genes. Also: in spring, one hour less time to produce an egg of usual size. Cows: the farmer whoi milks them comes in easier or later by one hour at the time of clock change: a brake of day's rythm, and obviously a different daylight condition.



Sleeping patterns, which are very deeply rooted in us and many animals, I can assure you.



You could as well question that there is somethign called "jet lag'". The difference/effect is just even more clearly, even drmaatic. Some people need just 12 hours to recover, others need up to two weeks.

[STEED]

Please don't get me started...

I am fed up with it all, just set the dam things to summer time and be done with it.

[Rhodes]

Please don't get me started...

I am fed up with it all, just set the dam things to winter time and be done with it.

[em2nought]

People can't tell time on clocks now anyway. They're going to make really bad fighter pilots. Hell, we'll probably have drone instead since they won't refuse to fire on our own people.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I don't buy that farmer thing.. how would the chickens etc. know what time it is? I'd imagine they go by the brightness or irtental clock.

That old chestnut is total rubbish and really gets me mad!

Farmers must be stupid if they can not set their alarm clocks so the rest of us are left alone.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

Please don't get me started...

I am fed up with it all, just set the dam things to double summer time and be done with it.

Woo so down cowboy one thing at a time.

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by STEED

Woo so down cowboy one thing at a time.

I never liked the hour change and I do prefer the winter time, since it the original time and imo, here we do not need the change, since we had a good daylight period around the year.


PS: Steed, I just remember, you joke but we did that here one time, around 1995 or 96. Portugal change to summer time but then did not return to the winter time and in next year we change it again to summer time, so it was gmt+2.

It was lovely, at 10 p.m. was day, since it corresponded to 8 p.m.
Why, do not remember, government or something stupid in it.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

I never liked the hour change

OK we have summer you have winter and the farmers can go to the wall.

[Rhodes]

Fine by me.

The farmers always live many years with out any hour change and did great! Sun time and period.

[Pisces]

Already responded in the Summer/Wintertime poll about daylightsavingstime (in the EU/Netherlands):

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...7&postcount=19