Do you benefit from the clocks going back?

Question

Is it time for us to stop the clock change? What reasons not to?

Answer 1

I'm in Scotland and we need the clocks to go back !
One reason is for our kids to go to school when it's light.
If the clocks didn't change we would be in the dark a lot longer than the rest of britain.

Answer 2

I do not like daylight savings time, which is what we call this in the US. It supposedly saves fuel, and I assume it does. But it is an annoyance when your digital clock has to go forward 23 hours in order to go back one. And I had to take about an hour to work out how to change my new digital watch, which has date and day of the week as well as time. Then there's going to a public place any time in the first few days after the switch, looking at the clock on the wall and not remembering it probably was not changed when it should have been. There's always a few people who forget, and miss appointments as a result.

Still, refusing to change with the rest of the country is a nuisance, too. When I lived in Arizona, which does not do daylight savings, we matched the rocky mountain time zone part of the year and the pacific time zone the rest of the year. That can get to be a nuisance, too.

Answer 3

Yes I'm sure , the whole sure and nothing but sure , I will benefit from clocks going back (not stop). Why ? , because I will be very rich by buying lottery tickets that I know now what number is drawn and going back to the past buy that number, oh boy oh boy.
I might be benefiting from stopping the clock if I know I can't make the dead line for example, but it is seldom. I prefer not to stop the time, because I like to see tomorrow's things, something better. And you know when you were teenager you always want to see tomorrow, you want to drive a car etc.
Are you building a time machine ?, Please let me know when you have built it.

Answer 4

The only people who benefit from daylight saving are those that play group sports outside or gardening or mowing the lawn after work. For me it makes no difference; I'm not controlled by the light or the clock.

Answer 5

We should stop changing the times on our clocks. I can't see any benefit for messing around with the timing.

Answer 6

you dont benefit at all when you have young children. Unfortunately i cannot change my 3 year olds body clock so instead of getting up at half seven she is up at half 6. Not nice for me. But then i suppose its just the joys of motherhood.

Answer 7

no... it means i leave for work in the dark and come home in the dark... a very depressing winter for me! the only benefit was the extra hour in bed i got when the clocks did go back... and thats it!

Answer 8

It makes me more tired !!

I don't think we should stop the change otherwise we'd be going to work in the dark, i'd never get up if it was still dark till 8 ami find it hard enough to get up anyway.

if we didn't would it be light at 3 am in the summer ?

Perhaps we sould have bst in the winter and gmt in the summer ?

Answer 9

I don,t & probly will never know the reasoning behind it, all I know is I hate it for the winter months, cause it seems we are in the dark more than the light, makes me want to sleep more, and yes for we who work it doesn,t fit well with me at all, go to work dark,come home dark, need to pin a note by my outside light to remind me to turn it on, yes hate it.

Answer 10

The only benefit and I mean only is getting an extra hours pay because I work noc shift. Other than that it is a pain in the you know what!