British Summer Time arrives at last.
Did
everyone remember to put their clocks forward by one hour? It is not a
problem for your PC or television or all the other “controlled”
items which do it automatically because you entered “GMT” as the
time zone when first registering. The problem is all the other fiddly
little things like the cooker for example, where it seems to be
necessary to have three hands in order to press down two buttons
simultaneously, whilst at the same time pressing another button to
set the hour and minute functions. The bedroom clock is another
problem where match stick type fingers would be distinctly
advantageous, because all the buttons are smaller than the full stops
in this text, or at least they seem to be for someone with normal
size fingers.
Now all
these irritants, problems and distractions could be illuminated for
ever with just one stroke of a pen. Someone, somewhere just has to
grasp the nettle and decree that the ludicrous practice of changing
the clocks by one hour in spring and autumn of every year will cease
as from now and is forever banned in the UK. I say “now” in
order to secure that Great Britain, or at least England if the others
do not choose to join in, is permanently locked into BST or as some
prefer, British Summer Time.
Why we
have to be subjected to the forward and backward motion of clocks
every year has always been a mystery to me and I suspect many others.
It may, almost but not quite, have been understandable in wartime
even with the British Double Summer Time, but today it is beyond
logic.
Another
advantage to having permanent BST, is that the body clock returns to,
and stays at “normal” and restores a proper sleeping pattern.
I remain
convinced that moods are intrinsically linked to both season and
clocks. During the periods of lighter evenings and BST, there is a
distinct improvement in mood. It therefore follows that retaining BST
all year round, (there is even an argument to have and retain Double
BST) has a beneficial effect. As it is not possible to effect the
seasons, apart that is from climate change, controlling one out of
two is a 50% success.
Message to
those who are responsible for such things, in the matter of clocks,
leave the bloody things alone.
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