Clocks going back

It's bollocks but unlikely to change here anytime soon, largely because the UK who we share a border with won't change in tandem with us. It would be an extra pain in the hole having two different time zones on a tiny island.

"The evenings are too long" argument really only applies for about 7 weeks in June and July. Bright until 22:30 in the West is undeniably a bit bizarre.

But your idea of sticking with winter time would be a fail in April, May, August, September. Like it would mean Easter, mid-April next year, would have sunset just after 7pm. The May bank holiday weekend sunset would still be before 8pm (in Dublin anyway). The surprisingly nice month of October just gone would have had effective darkness before 6pm from the start, and by 5.30pm mid-month. That's all pretty miserable scenarios for most of us, just to get around an issue in the height of summer.

In truth there is probably no great solution, what we do at the moment probably makes the best of it.

Yes I know it's closer to the Equator and they change their clocks back and forward like us. But it doesn't change the fact that sunset is two hours + later than ours in Winter and although constant sunshine is not guaranteed, the temps are always at least 10celcius higher than ours on a bad day there in December/January too!

My point is that longer evenings in Winter are great for well being.

..."force feed them the worst of the Hákarl"

Have you a link for that ?

Spent 7 years commuting across thw country so it became unnoticeable after a while.

I get up early either way, don't like staying in bed.

I thought all this was sorted with EU, that it was to be demolished ???

This is the same Bull which starts this time every year. We (Ireland) have no say whatever in what happens in this country. There is a European directive which states

EU legislation on seasonal clock changes The current directive entered into force in 2001. Under its provisions, all member states switch to summer time on the last Sunday in March and back to their standard time ('winter time') on the last Sunday in October.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/seasonal-time-changes/

Increases business? During the height of summer everywhere except pubs and fast food restaurants were closed by 5 or 6pm. It's a really bizarre culture for outsiders to see everything closed in broad daylight and a terrible look for tourists.

The same people who go out walking or running or playing sports will do so anyway. The lazy ones who use the dark as an excuse to sit on the sofa eating crisps will still find an excuse. They can also walk in the morning before work.

Where are the statistics for reduced crime and increased business as it relates to the clocks changing? Or did you just pull that out of your rear end?