Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "accidents"

The madness of time shift happens tonight. Yeah that means the clocks go forward. I really hate it when we have to change the clocks. It leads to more accidents on our roads and in work places. Yet each year we shift the clocks back and forwards without questioning the reason behind this. I know the reasons I have seen given for it sound good when first heard. Giving the working man more time in the sun sounds good by the use of Daylight Savings but do we really benefit. I don't think we do after all a summer comes along we have more daylight hours so where is the benefit? In winter I have gone to work in the dark and on the way home it is dark again. If I wanted to see the daylight I would have to go outside during my lunch break. So again how has DST helped me or the many others in low paid work. It may just be due to my lack of experience in a worldly way. Maybe it does help someone, somewhere. I just haven't met any one that like the losing of an hour of sleep as we do this weekend. Of course I have yet to find someone who complains about gaining an hour as we will in about six months. I just wish those in power would come to their senses and see it from the same place the people see it. Why bother changing the clocks twice a year when We could do it once and stick to that time from then on. A simple compromise would be to set them half way between summer time and winter. Then leave them there. Simple. Sadly there are those that support DST, at least in my opinion, and they are the ones that hold the power to change it. So I can't see it changing any time soon which means we will continue to lose that hour every year to move to the summertime.