Should Ireland Not Change back an hour in October due to night driving safety?

Brightness is just a state of mind man.

/tokes on a camberwell carrot

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I thought it was more to do with the framers, especially Scottish farmers.

Ireland changes their clocks because of scottish framers/farmers?

Daylight saving, as it's known, was brought in courtesy of an idea by london builder William Willett in a pamphlet published in 1907 called "The Waste of Daylight" which was about the waste of summer mornings while people slept...

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

The thoughts of it not being bright until at least a quarter to ten in the month of December makes me think this is a very bad idea.
Kids have to go to school in the morning as well as come home in the evening....it being bright till 5-5.30pm isn't going to do them much good if the morning is pitch dark until they're nearly taking their breaktime.

All this nonsense from whatever politician is flying this kite and him saying that we can stagger school hours and work schedules to suit such a move is simply laughable (like the unions would stand for that).
This was tried back in the 60's and it didn't work then either.
As for road safety? lol pushing a clock hand an hour forward or back won't make one iota of difference to road safety...

Mike 1972 wrote: »

we actually can but if we did there would be no need for a move as it wouldnt matter if we were on GMT, GMT+1 or Pacific Mountain time

Personally I think it's a lot handier and less confusing to just jump forth and back every 6 months.
As someone who needs natural light in my work (preferably) in mid winter we can already lose 30-60min in the morning, on a job, over the rest of the year...we also lose 30 or so minutes in the evenings.
With staggered worktimes, you'd be arriving an hour later and going home an hour later, which is bloody stupid when you can just move the hour hand to suit the time of year.
So some workplaces would stagger and others wouldn't...that in itself would cause consternation (although it might cut down on rush hour delays)...anyway like I said it was tried in the 60s in the UK and they eventually went back to changing the clocks...can't see it being any differnet if they tried it now.

I'll bet this is about some form of EU integration, at least in the minds of the politicos who dreamt it up...

Could those people citing such a move as being protective of children on their way to and from school explain the reasoning?
I don't have kids but I don't think the school hours have changed that much...most schools start at 9am right? ...and finish at in and around 3.30-4pm?

In mid winter, under the current system sunrise is around 8.40am in Dublin (Dec21)...this means on a clear moring it starts getting bright at maybe 8.20am (Dublin: add 20-25 min for west coast), so the time when the majority of kids are on their way to school it's bright (unless it's bad weather).

Under the proposed system, it would be pitch dark when children are going to school and might still be dark well into their first lesson.

In the evening, they get out at 4pm, for argument's sake; sun sets at about 4.15pm (Dec21) so on a clear day, still bright till 4.30pm Under the proposed system that get's pushed out by an hour...but it was still bright when they got out under the old system. All you've now done is made it more dangerous in the mornings, especially for those who walk or bike to school (minority?). Those who get lifts or buses aren't badly effected under either the new or old systems.

I fail to see how this would proptect children on the roads.