L’ora legale dovrebbe essere abolita?
https://www.thejournal.ie/daylight-savings-clock-change-poll-6844924-Oct2025/
di SpottedAlpaca
L’ora legale dovrebbe essere abolita?
https://www.thejournal.ie/daylight-savings-clock-change-poll-6844924-Oct2025/
di SpottedAlpaca
42 commenti
Yes. Years ago. It’s fucking awful. Autumn and winter is grim enough here without it getting dark at 4.30
I’ve never understood peoples issue with it.
I like the long evenings in the summer.
I like that the mornings in the winter are a little less bleak with the extra light.
I want both of these things.
Problem with this article is that it doesn’t say what to scrap them at, winter or summer time?
Winter time can go fuck itself, summer is workable as the long bright evenings won’t be appreciated by many until they’re gone, so many sporting and outdoor activities are built around the long daylight hours.
I used to be in favour of scrapping it because it just makes sense. now I just want it scrapped so I can stop seeing articles everywhere twice a year asking if it should be scrapped.
Yes, oh god yes. The EU were supposed to do it years ago, then Covid came and it was shelved.
I don’t know why we don’t turn it back 24 hours on the Sunday night and then put it back on a Monday morning.
We’d get an extra Saturday in Autumn and then we could skip a Monday in Spring.
Same bloody article every bloody time.
Yes it should be scrapped, no we can’t do it in isolation so until the whole island is one jurisdiction or the UK decides to scrap it as well it’ll remain the way it is.
Pick a time, I don’t care if Summer or Wintertime and stick to it. The older I get the longer it takes me to adjust. I wake up at 5am during the summer, in winter it will be 4am and it takes me weeks to get used to waking an hour later, and then we change again in March and the game starts again. Pick a time and leave it be, it does not do what it supposed to anyway….
Not unless the UK changes with us or we have a united Ireland.
No its part of our tradition and heritage
The frustrating thing about these articles is they never establish which time would we remain on. I assume it would be winter time as technically putting the clocks forward in the summer was the first “change” when it was introduced, so winter is the standard time.
I personally would prefer to stay on winter time as I think the evenings are long enough in the summer, I’m not really sure why the extra hour is so necessary. It would still be bring until almost 10pm at midsummer. You’d make up for this with a brighter morning on the other end.
But whatever they go with, I would just prefer a single time being picked and scrapping this nonsense, it seems so unnecessary and disruptive in this day and age. I also think one of the main reasons the EU was looking to scrap it was that they had a lot of statistics showing some serious impacts on health, especially of older people, around the time of the clock changes.
Can we really change if the north doesn’t change?
Some people will have a conniption at that thought of it.
If it’s scrapped It’s the winter time we’d be staying at not the summer time, also for those saying we get an extra hour of sunlight, we don’t, it’s the same amount of daylight time for the day regardless of the clocks moving.
I used to hate it when I was younger. Now, i think I would miss it too much if it stopped.
I swear they’re against getting rid of it because the media companies are lobbying to the governments so they can continue to write their 2 articles a year about it
Long time ago, it’s not healthy.
Oh it’s that time of year again
Every year we have this conversation, Let’s just split the difference 30 minutes backwards and leave it at that
Just to clarify, since the article didn’t specify — is the EU proposing permanent Standard Time or permanent Summer Time?
We have this discussion every year. Please give it a rest.
Nah shouldn’t as someone who’s up at 5 every morning I’d rather not spend the first 4 hours in my day in darkness.
I think there’s a dichotomy of opinion evident here.
Overall post barely positive – indicating most indifferent or still wanting daylight saving. Then comments leaning the other way in favour of scrapping.
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: In theory, Yes
We actually have a problem with scrapping Daylight Savings, and it’s about Northern Ireland. And not that we’d have to synchronise it with the UK.
Legally, Irish Summer Time is our base timezone. This is unlike the rest of Europe, where winter time is the base time zone.
So if both Ireland and the UK were to scrap daylight savings, we’d actually be an hour behind the UK. And thus an hour behind Belfast.
We’re at a high enough latitude that it just about makes sense to have daylight saving time. But I doubt the country would grind to a halt if we didn’t!
No shit would be dark asf.
Should absolutely be scrapped but the last time I read anything about this the plan was to also move us to being the same time as Central European Time which is madness.
From what I remember from geography every 15 minutes of longitude represents an hour of time. If Greenwich is 0 the natural break is 7.5 minutes of longitude east and west of that.
Being in the same time zone as London means we’re effectively an hour off the “natural time” of a large part of island. The 7.5 degree line pretty much runs down the middle of Ireland.
It would make more sense for Ireland and Portugal to be one hour behind Britain, for France and Britain to be the same time and for Germany, Italy Poland and the nordics to be an hour ahead. And Romania, Finland, Ukraine etc to be 2 hours ahead of Greenwich.
The likes of Spain, Benelux Austria, Switzerland could choose one or the other.
It wouldn’t be the end of the world for us to remain in the same time zone as Greenwich but moving an hour ahead when we’re to the west makes no sense.
Not going to read the article just so it doesn’t get anymore clicks but most of Europe does want to get rid of it. Though the commission has pretty much done nothing since this or at least haven’t seen anything.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_18_5302
Ah this yearly shite. Also, any day now watch out for the yearly “ bad weather affects supplies of Turkey and sprouts so cHriStMasS IS cANcELLeD!!!! “.
Yes.
Every year!
To play devils advocate, which time would people like to keep? Summer time or Winter time?
If we keep Summer time it’ll be dark till half 9 in the morning in December.
If we keep Winter time it’ll get bright at 3am on the summer and dark at 10pm.
Personally, I think daylight savings gives us the best of both and the clocks changing really don’t bother me that much.
Absolutely yes. It’s very hard to get out of bed on dark mornings & walking to work in the dark & when your working day done it’s already dark & you cant do anything like go sit in a park or go for a walk
Every year we dust off this argument and then put it to bed again for 12 months.
As a software developer I oppose scrapping it. I think it’s good to be reminded twice a year that people do weird shit with time and it’s not an easy problem.
Otherwise developers will only be reminded of the issue sporadically – like in 2038 or when they learn 2100 isn’t a leap year.
Can someone Explain this to me like I’m five? I never understood this.
Daylight *saving
Every year the same discussion . . .
What most people want scrapped is the clock change. Changing to summer time all year round isn’t really getting rid of DST even if (pedant alert) Ireland’s standard time is not winter time but summer time. The same time on the island doesn’t really matter though, plenty of times change on the border. And as you see here some people want summer time all year round and others winter. A comprise would be…… drumroll… changing the clocks.
The clock change makes sense, as the other scenarios will be worse for sunrise in winter or sunset in summer. That there’s a consensus that the “clock change must go” makes me doubt these people have thought through the alternatives.
The annual question.
Yes. It’s a pain in the neck.
Useless poll. Should have included option for which option we want permanently. Clocks forward or clocks back.