Well, once again we have performed the twice-yearly ritual of changing the clocks. What a waste of time and a misuse of time! Supposedly there was once some logical reasoning behind this regular disruption to our sleep patterns and the imposition of a seemingly never-ending round of clock adjustments on each occasion. In our own case, what with watches, clocks, ovens, boilers, cars, automatic timers etc., we have to carry out sixteen separated clock adjustments.
It's not as if we actually get any more daylight out of the exercise - it's just shunted from one end of the day to the other. The winter months are made more dangerous on the roads because although we now have lighter mornings, we have darker evenings, and by the time we are well into winter children are coming out of school in the dark, and people are driving home from work, tired and in the dark.
I believe there used to be some benefit to farmers, but today with modern agricultural machinery and buildings it's not uncommon to find farmers ploughing fields in the middle of the night under the glare of powerful headlights.
To get more hours of daylight we would have to slow down the earth's rotation, but I don't think anyone knows where the brake pedal is.
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Now I'll have "jet lag" for a week and the damn dog is still going to want to go for his walk in the pitch black of 6:00 PM. I always feel like a mole this time of year, it's a wonder my eyes don't turn pink.
Clearly this is a problem on both sides of the herring pond.
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