Poll: Do you think the clocks should change?

[valve90210]

If you don't like your working hours either speak to your boss or go find another job, it's not hard.

I've not had a job in the past 5 years which was a 9-5, most offices are flexible with hours nowadays. The 9-5 is a really dated concept.

Did I ever say I didn't like my working hours? No I was just highlighting that a lot of people are constrained with their working hours so your point about people being able to get up whenever they want really has no relevance to this as that is not what it is about.

The 9-5 maybe a dated concept but a huge amount of people do still work those hours and are constrained.

 

[valve90210]

Hmm, dark until 10am in Northern Scotland and proven rise in deaths due to the darkness impacting on the daily commute in last study. No thanks.

A slight rise in deaths due to the darkness in the morning which was actually outweighed by a considerable reduction of deaths in the evening due to the lighter conditions...

http://www.lighterlater.org/history.html#british_standard_time

 

[Souleh]

Would it make much impact? There will be the same amount of daylight hours and would be lighter until later.

Most people remark on longer days by the sunset than the sunrise in my experience. Unless ive missed something?

 

[Sunbed]

Your reason for doing this is based on the assumption that everyone has the same working hours....

My assumptions are:
- Most people work 9-5 (or thereabouts), like me.
- People, like me, like sunlight.

Therefore, logically, if there was a way of giving people more light without forcibly altering their working hours, people would be all for it..?

I can sympathise with vampires and people with abnormal working hours but I 'm afraid I don't fit in either of those catagories.

 

[platypus]

Not they aren't. For example, it's not as pleasant to go for a walk/running when it's dark.

That depends entirely on the conditions. Some of the best runs I've had by far were at night.

 

[platypus]

OK, make a case which says the standard working hours should be 8-4 and I will support you.

I work 7-3 every third week. It's bloody brilliant.

 

[Judgeneo]

God no.

In fact, isn't Spain now considered aligning the clocks with GMT to increase productivity?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24294157

There we go.

Spain is considering moving onto the same time as the UK, as their adoption of Central european time has had a "negative effect on productivity, absenteeism, stress, accidents and school drop-out rates"


So no, it would be really quite dumb to go forward an hour

 

[pitchfork]

Not they aren't. For example, it's not as pleasant to go for a walk/running when it's dark.

The question is simple: do you like sunlight?

If so, why are you satisfied with the stupid GMT/BST arrangment we have now?

I like sunlight, I enjoy sunlight now. If you don't want to go running in the dark, then don't. Go when it is light.

Sort of agree. The stupid eu olive oil labeling thing recently made me feel the same way. So much time and money is wasted on inconsequential, useless rubbish .

It's ridiculous, like they're all living in a frigging bubble coming up with stupid pointless ideas.

OK, make a case which says the standard working hours should be 8-4 and I will support you.

I don't believe in standard working hours, my current job I work 7:30-3:30 because I chose those hours, if I wake up late or I've got a late meeting or travel, I'll do a 10-6 or claim overtime/ time in lieu based on if I'm working later.

They're more flexible than most round here, but I'd say most managers are pretty flexible on working hours. I've worked in a lot of different companies and certainly never encountered, or very rarely, people who would dictate "9-5 working only" if someone made a reasonable request to change for an 8-4 or whatever.

 

[Sunbed]

But a lot of Spain is 'behind' the UK in terms of time (longitude), so it makes more sense for them. Also they are on a different latitude which gives them longer days in summer anyway. Not comparable.

 

[Freefaller]

No thanks. I love nice bright mornings - it's motivating and energising. I don't want to go to work (I don't like going to work) when it's dark.

 

[memyselfandi]

No thanks. I love nice bright mornings - it's motivating and energising. I don't want to go to work (I don't like going to work) when it's dark.

Agreed. it bad enough now having to get up before dawn in the winter but if it was dark even longer in the morning then it would be even harder to get motivated ...

 

[Gilly]

Would it make much impact? There will be the same amount of daylight hours and would be lighter until later.

...meaning it takes much longer to get light in the morning, impacting those with SAD.

 

[bazzabear]

I would rather have light in the evening than the morning. But as others have said, the easiest way to achieve that would be to stop messing about with it, and leave it at the summer time setting all year round.

 

[godinman]

I would like to stay in summer time, I much prefer a long evening. You can get more done at home, an hours light in the morning is wasted.

 

[rhysduck]

In the Summer it would be brilliant, but not so much in the Winter.

No in other words

 

[Yaayuh!]

I think this would cause more issues/accidents in the winter with more people having to travel in the dark bleary-eyed in the morning.

 

[dacads]

No thanks

 

[Woden]

We need metric time, no seasonal changes.

 

[Diesel]

BST all year round would be great.

I don't really want it to be lighter longer in the Summer, but would be great in the Winter to have less daylight wasted in the mornings.

 

[Ryan-3]

OK, make a case which says the standard working hours should be 8-4 and I will support you.

I'd rather do 10-6 as I ain't too good at mornings.

But BST would be better for the whole year.