[de_Selby]

It's not just farmers. It was done away with in the UK for 3 years back in the late 60s and people hated it.

There are 2 options, either going with summer time permanently which seems the most sensible approach in theory and what they did with the British Summer time experiment. The problem is that although having longer evenings in winter sounds good in theory it means that it's dark until 10am in the depths of winter and roads are icier when people are making their morning commute.

The other option is to keep standard time, but that will mean losing the late evenings in summer and the sun rising even earlier which would be a loss.

I don't see what the big issue people have with it is. It makes perfect sense for northern/southern latitudes and essentially all my clocks adjust themselves automatically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time#Periods_of...

[kwhitefoot]

> It was done away with in the UK for 2 years back in the late 60s and people hated it.

Some people hated it, mostly Scots. In the south of England it was popular (I was there).

Now I live in Norway rather further north than most of the UK and guess what we really don't find it difficult to go to work in the dark and nor do children find it hard to get safely to school (that last was the Scottish argument against permanent summer time).

Edit: type No -> Now

[Chris2048]

Why not just start schools earlier/later in different months?

[ghaff]

As soon as you shift a big part of society, like kids going to school, much of the rest of society needs to shift to stay in sync. Congrats. You’ve just reimplemented a time shift but more chaotically.

I used to be in camp DST year round. Now I don’t really care because I mostly get up when I want which varies from day to day.

[Chris2048]

Is it a big part of society though? I would have though children walking to school is fairly independent to the rest of society that needed time-milestones.

Would we assume parents are walking their children to school, hence need to start work later? If that's the case, why does it matter how dark it is?

[ghaff]

Most parents of young children are at least seeing them onto school busses if not dropping them off at school themselves themselves. Childcare has to similarly be synced up.

Personally I don’t care much these days but many do.

[hpoe]

To quote groundskeeper Willie

"It won't last brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like English men and Scots or Welshmen and Scots or Japanese and Scots or Scots and other Scots. Darn Scots they ruined Scotland."

Guess we can add DST to that.

[mattowen_uk]

This is so ironic considering that Willie is an Orcadian, so is genetically Norwegian (mostly).

[mhh__]

> south of England

Guilty as charged. South west though, not posh!

[kwhitefoot]

South west me too.

[JohnFen]

> I don't see what the big issue people have with it is.

The issue is that the sudden change in sleep times is a really large problem for a lot of people. It even causes extra deaths.