It's time for that twice-annual ritual of altering the clocks - when everyone in the country simultaneously pretends that the time is different to what it actually is. How bizarre !

I've got a better idea ... for the winter let's all pretend that all Mondays are actually Sundays - then we get a longer weekend. That makes far more sense !!

They abolished them when I was five years old as an experiment, and we all walked to school with torches and armbands, which were 5 old pence each.
They never tried it again, my favourite tale about clock changing time, was when I had to employ the guys` son that had invested in what we were doing at the time, and he turned up for work , having put his watch completely the wrong way, and lets face it , there was only one away or the other,walked in uselessly at 10.30 am, and declared, "blimey everyone is in early today!"
I do agree though ITK, I hate clock watching, and would rather watch the seasons change at their own pace, and with natural lighting.
The small village where I grew up was pitch black when we left in the mornings in that aforementioned year, which I think was 1968/9, we had a very early form of "a walking bus" and we loved it.

That was because they left it on British Summer Time, which is the actual joke... If anything was going to screw the pooch it was that.

UTC (which is the same as GMT more or less, since its measured from the Greenwich Meridian) would be far better. Means lighter mornings and, in the summer, we'd still get lighter nights... just a little later in the year.