This weekend's clock change brings home what a farcical waste of time this exercise is. As one householder said, 'It hardly makes any difference! The sun isn't very bright at this time of year anyway, so an extra hour of it shining on my solar panels (if I'm lucky) barely earns me an extra quid. And in the spring, I lose it again. Or is it the other way round? I always get confused.
'The whole idea's a bit mad - an utter con. It's just a mind game. What we need is something sensible and practical - something which will make a real difference, and which will save the planet. What we ought to do is change the clocks every day.'
'If we moved the clocks one hour back every day at noon, we'd get an extra hour of sunlight every day. And if we moved them forward again every night at midnight, we'd shorten every dark, miserable, un-productive and unprofitable sunless night by an hour, all year round. That would be 365.2422 times more productive (yes, I've dome my homework, so I know what I'm talking about) and would also be simpler for the sun, which might otherwise get confused and get out of step with itself.'
The sun was unavailable for comment.
