END OF BST (Clocks Back)

[Cleoriff]

At 2am Sunday morning (27th Oct), it's time to turn back the clocks (End of BST).

This gives us all an hour extra in bed.

It's also the start of dark mornings and dark nights!

[pgn]

Whilst some will get an extra hour's sleep on Sunday, spare a thought for the National Trust Volunteers who work tirelessly through the night to move the stones back 1 hour at various stone circles around the countryside.

[pgn]

T'is done:

🕰️😖

[Cleoriff]

Yes indeed 😂

[Oxonian]

I hope everyone enjoyed their extra hour in bed ; it should happen every night in my view. 🌓

[Bambino]

Here's a little help for anyone who forgot.

[Cleoriff]

Excellent idea @Bambino 😂

[TallTrees]

👍@Bambino 

[pgn]

Handy when moving from a km/h to an mph country, as hereabouts... Love the clockface for BST to GMT 🤣

[RunrigForever]

Can't say I like the dark early evenings much at all. I was told in the pub it is to do with the farmers. I thought it was so schoolchildren could go to school in daylight and get home in the daylight just, many years ago. I remember one year when someone decided not to change the clocks = didn't like that much either.

Like you @Cleoriff I suffer with SAD - & the quality of the actual daylight we do get is so poor 😞

[Oxonian]

There have been various iterations over the years @RunrigForever ; these include Double BST during WWII, which was an energy saving measure :- 

Facts about Daylight Savings in the UK - BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zj76vj6

Whatever happened to Double Summer Time? | Iain Hollingshead | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jun/24/comment.mainsection2

GMT, BST, WW2 Double Summer Time and the 'right' time

https://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-time.htm

The trouble is that whatever clock we adopt, there will be some who like it and some who do not ! 👍