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Changing the clocks


As I sit here and type this it is the first of November, it's twenty past five in the evening and it's fucking dark.

This time last week, at twenty past five in the evening it was not fucking dark. Bit gloomy maybe but not dark.

This is not due to a sudden shift in the inclination of the Earth's axis, the Sun becoming wrapped in a cloud of stellar debris, or any other cataclysmic natural event. It's entirely due to fucking idiots. At the weekend, some complete arsehole decreed that the clocks should be changed to indicate a time an hour earlier than the time they had previously been indicating.

Now, it is well known that at this time of year it does get darker in the evenings. This is due to the tilt of the Earth's axis and the resulting change in the orientation of the axis relative to the Sun as the Earth moves in its orbit. It happens every year and is entirely predictable. It's a pain in the arse, but it can easily be mitigated by putting the clocks forward an hour or so.

But that's not what happens. The fucking clocks get put BACK an hour instead, thus making the problem worse. What the fuck is going on? YOU'RE DOING IT THE WRONG WAY ROUND YOU FUCKING MORONS!

It's completely stupid. Everything is instantly fucked. The day is over before it's hardly begun. If you work standard hours you don't even get to drive home in the daylight, let alone have any daylight to do stuff in. The rush hour traffic is instantly made worse because all the half-asleep dozy idiots with no clue about the concept of getting their arses in gear are now half-asleep dozy idiots who, since they can't find their arse with both hands in daylight, haven't got a fucking hope of finding it in the dark, let alone getting it into gear. All the daylight is over by the time you could make use of it and you can't do a sodding thing (admittedly, fucking about on the computer is still an option, but that's not much by way of compensation).

And they call this policy "Daylight Saving"? Where the fuck do they get that from? "Daylight Wasting" more like.

LISTEN you TWATS. If you're going to do it at all then bloody well do it the right way round...

PUT THE FUCKING CLOCKS FORWARD IN THE WINTER AND BACK IN SUMMER.

(Or just leave them alone and gain the additional advantage of no longer fucking up the entire nation's sleep cycle.)

Oh, and don't give me some stupid argument about how it would make it dark in Scotland until nearly midday or any of that shit. We already know how to deal with the fact that different parts of the Earth's surface receive daylight at different times. It's called Time Zones. You set the local clocks appropriately for the local daylight cycle. You don't try and keep them in sync with some other fuckers who have daylight at different times, that's just bloody daft. There's no reason why the North shouldn't have a different time zone from the South. Europe's in a different time zone already and that isn't a problem. America's got four time zones and Russia's got loads of the buggers. No reason why we can't have a couple of our own. Indeed, the guys with blue paint on their faces would probably think it was quite cool.

Let's have some fucking usable daylight in the winter for a change.

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