Turning back the clock

October 25th, 2009 by Graham

Turn back the clock
We’re working late at Fabiola & Sing Sing, real late. In fact it’s 1:00am in the morning. Yawn!

But what makes this night unusual is that it’s the night that we have to turn all the clocks back an hour. Yep, at 2:00am it will be one o’clock again, and we’ll have to do this hour all over again.

A 25 hour Sunday! When I was a kid that would have been my idea of hell.. but mind you, back then there wasn’t that much to do on a Sunday – no shops were open, and a Sunday almost always meant rain and a repeat of Last of The Summer Wine. Shudder..

It’s said that we turn the clock back to help Scottish farmers do whatever they Scottish farmers do with a bit more light in the morning. It’s also claimed that it’s much safer for kid’s walking to school in the morning (do kids even walk to school anymore these days?) if the clocks go back.

But hang on – doesn’t more light for kids walking to school in the morning mean that there is less light for them when they come home? And isn’t it plausible that more kids might be run over when they’re tired at the end of their school day than at the beginning?

So, I’m a skeptic when it comes to us messing around with the clocks all the time – maybe we should just adopt the same time zone as France and mainland Europe?