Clocks Forward?

[Ellie]

British summertime officially starts at 1am tomorrow morning,Sunday 25th March...(well we can dream can't we? )
so clocks move forward an hour.
Same for Portugal I believe? But of course your summertime has already started ....did it ever go away!

P.S Why do we have to keep doing this? It goes back to WW1 and farmers working hours I believe..so why can't we stop it now and move clocks forward an hour and leave it like that?

[Hoser]

I think it has something to do with the dairy cows. They can never make the one hour switch for milking time.

[laserblazer]

And Scottish kids who would have to go to school in the pitch black during the winter months. Maybe we could go back to the days pre. the Great Western Railway when we all worked off local time.

Didn't we have a thread like this 6 months ago?

Yup

[maddi]

Yes we have the very same discussion thread when the clocks went back in October.

Maddi

[Ellie]

I think it has something to do with the dairy cows. They can never make the one hour switch for milking time.

Hoser, those cows need a good talking to

Nice to see you here H..does that mean its snowing in Ontario?

[SJ & RE]

Cant be blamed 4 this one as our cows are 4 beef. xx
Still got him tied up tho, thats the hubby, not the cows,

[Karen Ann]

One year in UK the clocks didn't go back, I think it was about 1969, I was in Primary school and we were all issued with flourescent tabbards because it meant that we were going to school in the dark. The people in power at the time decided that this was not a good idea and returned to clock changing method.
I actually look forward to changing the clocks in March, however, don't particularly like it in October. I look at it this way, there are lots of things we don't like to do, but we do it all the same.