Jump Cut

[poliphilo]

One of the results of putting the clocks back is that winter, instead of creeping up on us, arrives in a single pounce. It's disorientating. Unnatural. The nights are slowly drawing in and suddenly there's a jump cut and you find it's getting dark when you're putting on the kettle for afternoon tea. Stuart Heritage in the Guardian says we put up with this for the sake of Britain's eight remaining milkmen. My suspicion is it causes much more annoyance than it saves.

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I would rather never be on daylight saving time, and be on real time all year round. Which is what you are currently on, and what we will soon be on.

Yes, you get less light in the evening, but more in the morning. But morning is when it is supposed to be light, and evening is when it is supposed to be dark, so I'd rather be in the situation where we that is what is happening.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't think I mind which time we choose- just so long as we stick with it.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I would rather be on the closer-to-real time, but, if it was a choice, I'd take "being always on Daylight Saving Time" over "switching back and forth."