ext_53844 ([identity profile] thunderbox.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] merchimerch 2008-03-13 03:24 pm (UTC)

Ours doesn't change for another two weeks, but I agree wholeheartedly. I don't have so much of a problem with the spring change, but the autumn one really messes me up for several weeks.

When I was a teenager, we gave up the whole practice and stayed on GMT+1, but there was much fuss about children going to school in the dark. Despite accident figures showing that this was more than offset at the other end of the day:

Analysis of accident data during the experiment indicated that while there had been an increase in casualties in the morning, there had been a substantially greater decrease in casualties in the evening, with a total of around 2,500 fewer people killed and seriously injured during the first two winters of the experiment.

the trial was abandoned.

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