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The Daily PollIT’S THAT TIME of year again. This Sunday the clocks will go back an hour at 2am as daylight saving time comes to an end.
Seán Kelly MEP is calling, as he has done for nearly a decade, for the clock changes to be scrapped, saying they are “outdated” and that the practice “has been proven to have negative effects on health, well-being, and safety”.
Maybe you’re thinking ‘forwards, backwards, who cares?’, or you like the tradition of moving the clock hands – either way, we want to know what you think.
So today we’re asking: Should Ireland keep or scrap the biannual clock changes?
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Should the journal keep or stop this poll every October?
@Trish O’leary-Dunne: and every March.
2 polls for the price of one
@Trish O’leary-Dunne: its necessary, dont moan and just vote. Eventually they have to listen to us and change the law!
@Buster Lawless: I think theres plenty of more important issues they need to sort ahead of a time change
@Buster Lawless: I’m sure the powers that be are waiting with baited breath on the results of a journal.ie poll
@Buster Lawless: this is a poxy journal poll, get a grip
@Shimo F: Buster is a childlike attention seeker, AKA a troll. Best not to feed him and his many accounts
@Kevin Kerr: he claims to have 17
@Dermot Blaine: more lies from blaine
@Kevin Kerr: we are the same account
Every year the same poll, nothing ever changes except we all get a year older
@David craddock:
As of 11.30am it has almost 5,000 clicks, you can guarantee that there will be another poll in March
@David craddock: The establishment have it so there will never be change. ‘This is the way’
I for one enjoy the dark evenings of late autumn and winter. I say keep the time changes.
@Brian Dunne: You will still have the EXACT same dark evenings! Just they will be there an hour later.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: ok let me explain further. I enjoy the evenings being darker an hour earlier. Also I don’t fancy it being pitch dark still at 9 am either.
@Brian Dunne: But GMT is the norm.
Summertime is the anomaly.
If we scrapped the changes we would have GMT (Winter time) all year.
Which would be fine
The way it’s supposed to be.
Scrap it. Better to have more light in the evenings.
@Fergus Peter Smyth: and two time zones on the island??
@Fergus Peter Smyth: doesn’t that depend on whether we stick with summertime or wintertime?
@Dermot Blaine: preferably stay on summertime. I should have been more clear
@sean weir: yeah. It works in loads of other places. We shouldn’t be held back by London
@sean weir: Brits were talking about it too yesterday – “While this time shift has long been a tradition, a growing number of scientists and medical professionals are now pushing for an end to the biannual clock changes, arguing that it is “harming the nation’s sleep.”
same poll every year with it always being overwhelmingly in favour of scrapping the clock changes
Why not put them back several hours so its not dark until 10pm in winter..or forward whenever we want.
Time is our creation.
@Andrew Martin Clavin: If you pull a short blanket up to your chin you may find that your feet get cold.
FFS…. Again?
I know some of the republicans among us won’t like this but I can’t see it changing unless the UK does it too
@P. J.: It’s the anit republicans that would it changed,republicans don’t want two different time zones on the island of Ireland.
@Daniel Roche: there has been 2 time zones on the island for over 300 years.
Northern Ireland..1690.
Rest of the island..2018!
@kiemur1: Rest of Ireland 1845
Leave it alone it does no harm…. if it changes d summer evenings will b shorter an that will b a disaster
@David Byrne: The idea is to change it the other way, so that winter evenings are longer and summer evenings stay the same.
@Brendan O’Brien: no it’s not it’s change it in winter an leave at that time
The man who made time didn’t make enough of it for some people.
Will anybody think of the curtains? The CURTAINS
@Faejit Balloobas: yes! And what about the sheep? None of them have clocks, they don’t know what’s going on!
It’s the government who wants to keep us in the dark for as long as they can
Not a lot of people understand how the change of clock impacts children & adults with special needs. Maintaining the routine is so important and this is distressing for them. It can take weeks to settle them. It should be scrapped, it’s so unnecessary!
Bring back hanging i say
@Ben dover: yes we must hang the paedos!!
@Buster Lawless: the Shinners?
@Jockey Jim: Yeah remember Bill Keneally as Shinner Tallysman and all those Shinner TDs who protected him over the decades..
….Oh wait now that was FF. sure by your ‘logic’ they must be what you called the Shinnners yeah ?
@Michale Kane: FF more popular than the Shinners lol
@Jockey Jim: hang them all too
Can we get rid of clocks and this 24 hour nonsense altogether? Life could be more improvised and more fun without the tyranny of hours and minutes. Just show up whenever and stop bean counting our short stretch of consciousness on this planet! This has nothing whatsoever to do with my appalling punctuality.
@SerotoninWars: Bus Eireann have tried this in Cork. It doesn’t work
@Fidgenti: Hahaha! ><
This was due to come in 2020 but other things intervened. I find it quite bewildering for domestic pets and basically a pain that shouldn’t be around in the modern world.
@Colette Walsh: It is bewildering for domestic pets. Their lack of opposable thumbs make it virtually impossible to change even the most basic clock.
@Colette Walsh: Ireland or Europe?
All of Europe do the same. Why would Ireland change it only?
Odd suggestion
I like the dark mornings, means I don’t have to get up as early to put my rubbish in the neighbours bin on collection day.
Even if the Journal do have a poll on this twice a year, high time the whole of Europe did away with this farce. It was looking likely for a few years, then COVID hit, and it died a death. Winter is hard enough at the best of times, without it getting dark at 4pm, so leave us on Summer time all year round.
Scrap it keep it to summertime please
The government could implement it for about 14billion.
Every bloody year they ask this. Every year.
@reg morrisey: Like clockwork.
wow such an original question and poll that hasn’t been asked or done when the time changes each year
Build a bridge lads
Get them back and keep back! I hate them going forward and stealing my day.
Lave it alone
Not the worst idea, having this bi-annual poll as a reminder to change the clocks.
If we scrap now (before fall back), we would be aligned with UK in summer and EU in winter (until EU and or UK do the same).
It would be better if we then aligned with CET.
@Conrad Shields: We can’t be aligned with CET, as we are in GMT, you can’t just move to a different timezone. All of Europe and ourselves and the UK need to do this, so next March we all move the clocks forward one hour, and they never get changed again. Here’s hoping!!
@The Firestarter: We are officially aligned with WET (currently WEST). If Ireland wanted to move to CET we could – the Spanish changed to “Berlin” time prior to WWII and the French during the war. Both countries however are now considering a return to WET.
I voted to keep it. I would vote for scrapping it, but the danger in doing that is that we could be left with winter time all year round as some “experts” advise. I would rather change the clocks than risk losing the long Summer evenings.
I don’t think people realise that the proposal to scrap the clock change would leave us permanently in ‘winter time’.
Ie. Summer days would start with sun rise at 4:30am and sun set at 9pm (roughly).
One other words, No stretch in the evenings.
Our daylight is short enough over the year without loosing those summer evenings too !!!
Time to move on
@Alan Moloney: time to get going
What lies ahead I have no way of knowing
But under my feet baby the grass is growing, it’s time to move on, time to get going.
Couldn’t give a toss.
Nothing is ours but time.
I don’t care either way to be honest but if and when it does change it would need to change on both side of the border. Lots of people live in the north and work in the south and vice versa. For that reason and for ease of trade it will be best when both sides change. If course certain people in the north will say NO! unless the whole of the UK changes too.
Keep clocks at winter time which closely mirrors solar time. The clocks are designed to measure a natural phenomenon and should not be changed.
Why not put the clocks forward at the end of February instead of end of March
At this stage why ask
For it to happen the UK would have to agree to it aswell otherwise you would have 2 time zones in Ireland
one for the Republic and another for Northern Ireland
Tedious circular argument.The Irish need to get over themselves and wise up to the myths they have invented,such as…everyone loves the Irish;…special relationship with the US …opinions on Gaza&Ukraine;…punching above our weight;…we can save the planet with a carbon footprint of 0.000012%; supporting US Democrats…international commitments of open borders;reliance upon multinationals and now we can change the time zone when the British part of the Island is remaining is committed to the biannual clock changes.
United Ireland my foot!
does anyone really ask this question? Not questioning the merits of it, it’s just I only see Journie doing it, like it’s a thing.
We hear this argument twice a year, year after year. It’s all very tedious
When is the poll on the date for putting up the Xmas tree?
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