Yesterday morning we again had to turn back clocks as British Summer Time ended and we got back into our natural time zone, the GMT. Which effectively means that everything is totally messed up again and people who sense the time change are feeling miserable, or even ill.

I am one of those people. My biological clock is totally screwed up again, as it is in every spring and autumn when the idiotic jumping between times takes place. It’s 10:30am, and it doesn’t make any sense that it’s so damn early. On the other hand, last night I couldn’t fall asleep and this morning I didn’t want to wake up at all. Everything is so wrong.

Indeed, the clock turning in autumn is, in principle, better than in spring, as we turn the clocks back, not forward. But still, the body has already got used to the time zone we have been living in for seven months and rearranging the biological clock is a misery that we actually don’t have to survive twice a year.

You see, using the daylight savings time only makes sense around 45° latitude. You know London’s latitude? It’s 51°. 45° goes through Romania, Serbia, Croatia, northern Italy and southern France. We here are way up north, therefore, this doesn’t have any effect on actually saving any daylight.

People should live in their natural time zones, which for this part of Europe is the GMT. Last week I noticed calls by some people who think that the UK should adopt Central European Time (CET) in order to be in the same time zone as most European countries – that means one hour ahead of GMT. Considering the direction where the European Union is heading, I wouldn’t be surprised if one day there is one time zone all over the EU – just like in China that lies over four time zones, but uses the one that applies to Eastern China alone. However, I don’t want to see this here in Europe.

Actually, there are only three countries in the EU that use GMT as their winter time zone – the UK, Ireland and Portugal. It would, however, be natural if France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland were also in GMT, and Portugal in GMT-1. It would make sense.

Currently, the European Union do not allow member states unilaterally change their laws regarding the daylight savings time, i.e. this idiotic rule says that a member state cannot stop turning the clocks in spring and autumn, and such decision can be only made in all 27 member states together. Central European governments that enjoy their people’s misery are probably behind that stupid regulation and it would certainly be hard to change it. But I think that some political powers in the European Parliament, and also some national governments of EU member states should start working towards changing this rule and allowing the states to decide themselves, if they really want to use the DST or not. It would be the first step towards the right direction, and then we could push it further.

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