Changing the clocks has no effect at all on the natural world. If there are ten hours of daylight the day before the clocks are changed there will still be ten hours the day after. I think that declairing that it is now 9 o'clockrather than 10 o'clock is a lot of nonsense.

I think the clocks should stay as they are or GMT ,not go forwards or backwards, same as bulbaholic you still get the same day/night hours,noboby can change this like the whether but if you could you be rich,most liked,most dis liked

Countries of any size have time and day length differences. When in Scotland camping it was difficult to sleep, as it stayed light so long. Down near London it is already going dark quite early, even in August. We got ourselves in the bind of 'messing with time' many years ago to help farmers with dark mornings etc. Now it is a bone of contention between north and south. It is all very boring and annoying having to alter central heating timers with a long enough interval to have forgotten what you did last time!!!!

Those of us who remember this being done a couple of decades ago, as an 'experiment' will remember why it was almost universally hated and thus abandoned. People don't seem to learn from experience!
As we are already an hour ahead of GMT here in France, our winter mornings are horribly dark and often it doesn't get light until well after nine a.m. The perception of longer evenings really doesn't make any difference in winter.
Changing the clocks for the long days in summer makes a lot of sense, but in winter, we should forget it.
As gardening is on the back burner in winter, I doubt it would have any impact at all on our approach to gardening.

I have to agree with you all it seems a pointless exercise to me so let hope it does not happen

I know there are all sorts of arguments that it would be safer for children going to school if we didn't change the clocks back. I can't see it myself a) Most children these days are driven to their schools b) Where we live in Scotland regardless the children go to and from school in the dark in mid winter and it is worse on Shetland! I think we should just stick to GMT al year round.

When camping in Scotland in summer it is always going to be difficult to sleep regardless of what time the clock says.

There is also considerable evidence that this shifting of the clock back and fore is not good for our own internal body clocks.

I'm retired - I don't care what time it is!

That's why we don't have Daylight Savings Time here in Arizona! All the retirees living here! Even though I'm not retired, I'm glad: you can't make a blanket longer by cutting off one end and sewing it onto the other!

lol Tugb. my thoughts exactly :-)

Great similie, Tb, I like it lol.

Agreed Tugb but I suppose in the states with your time zones chopping hour here and there would be quite confusing. My mate is a builder and he is in favour of not changing clocks because he will get an extra hour of daylight so he can work longer

We've been under pressure from the other states to "just stay in formation", but we refuse to do it! Not only is it stupid, our part of our time zone has a permanent, natural Daylight Savings of a half hour, just because we are on the west end of it. I'm surprised that Utah and Idaho hasn't followed Arizona's lead.

A huge chunk of the US does change time! Crazy....

As far as I know, Arizona is the only state that doesn't!