Sollte die Sommerzeit abgeschafft werden?
https://www.thejournal.ie/daylight-savings-clock-change-poll-6844924-Oct2025/
Von SpottedAlpaca
Sollte die Sommerzeit abgeschafft werden?
https://www.thejournal.ie/daylight-savings-clock-change-poll-6844924-Oct2025/
Von SpottedAlpaca
29 Kommentare
Yes. Years ago. It’s fucking awful. Autumn and winter is grim enough here without it getting dark at 4.30
I’ve never understood peoples issue with it.
I like the long evenings in the summer.
I like that the mornings in the winter are a little less bleak with the extra light.
I want both of these things.
Problem with this article is that it doesn’t say what to scrap them at, winter or summer time?
Winter time can go fuck itself, summer is workable as the long bright evenings won’t be appreciated by many until they’re gone, so many sporting and outdoor activities are built around the long daylight hours.
I used to be in favour of scrapping it because it just makes sense. now I just want it scrapped so I can stop seeing articles everywhere twice a year asking if it should be scrapped.
Yes, oh god yes. The EU were supposed to do it years ago, then Covid came and it was shelved.
I don’t know why we don’t turn it back 24 hours on the Sunday night and then put it back on a Monday morning.
We’d get an extra Saturday in Autumn and then we could skip a Monday in Spring.
Same bloody article every bloody time.
Yes it should be scrapped, no we can’t do it in isolation so until the whole island is one jurisdiction or the UK decides to scrap it as well it’ll remain the way it is.
Pick a time, I don’t care if Summer or Wintertime and stick to it. The older I get the longer it takes me to adjust. I wake up at 5am during the summer, in winter it will be 4am and it takes me weeks to get used to waking an hour later, and then we change again in March and the game starts again. Pick a time and leave it be, it does not do what it supposed to anyway….
No its part of our tradition and heritage
The frustrating thing about these articles is they never establish which time would we remain on. I assume it would be winter time as technically putting the clocks forward in the summer was the first “change” when it was introduced, so winter is the standard time.
I personally would prefer to stay on winter time as I think the evenings are long enough in the summer, I’m not really sure why the extra hour is so necessary. It would still be bring until almost 10pm at midsummer. You’d make up for this with a brighter morning on the other end.
But whatever they go with, I would just prefer a single time being picked and scrapping this nonsense, it seems so unnecessary and disruptive in this day and age. I also think one of the main reasons the EU was looking to scrap it was that they had a lot of statistics showing some serious impacts on health, especially of older people, around the time of the clock changes.
Can we really change if the north doesn’t change?
Some people will have a conniption at that thought of it.
If it’s scrapped It’s the winter time we’d be staying at not the summer time, also for those saying we get an extra hour of sunlight, we don’t, it’s the same amount of daylight time for the day regardless of the clocks moving.
I used to hate it when I was younger. Now, i think I would miss it too much if it stopped.
I swear they’re against getting rid of it because the media companies are lobbying to the governments so they can continue to write their 2 articles a year about it
Oh it’s that time of year again
Every year we have this conversation, Let’s just split the difference 30 minutes backwards and leave it at that
Just to clarify, since the article didn’t specify — is the EU proposing permanent Standard Time or permanent Summer Time?
We have this discussion every year. Please give it a rest.
Nah shouldn’t as someone who’s up at 5 every morning I’d rather not spend the first 4 hours in my day in darkness.
I think there’s a dichotomy of opinion evident here.
Overall post barely positive – indicating most indifferent or still wanting daylight saving. Then comments leaning the other way in favour of scrapping.
Yes!!
Going to and coming from work when it’s dark isn’t healthy
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: In theory, Yes
I remember when we did this back in my youth, late 60s into early 70s. If I remember correctly it wasn’t popular.
We actually have a problem with scrapping Daylight Savings, and it’s about Northern Ireland. And not that we’d have to synchronise it with the UK.
Legally, Irish Summer Time is our base timezone. This is unlike the rest of Europe, where winter time is the base time zone.
So if both Ireland and the UK were to scrap daylight savings, we’d actually be an hour behind the UK. And thus an hour behind Belfast.
Parents of young kids fucking hate it because the clocks changing is a huge disruption to sleep patterns.
It was already decided to scrap it pre Covid!
We’re at a high enough latitude that it just about makes sense to have daylight saving time. But I doubt the country would grind to a halt if we didn’t!
No shit would be dark asf.