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Should the clocks go back?

We asked people in Birmingham whether the clocks should keep going back each autumn—or whether they’d choose lighter evenings, even if winter mornings became darker.

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00:01it's what we've been conditioned to accept really isn't it so like what would we know
00:09because we don't know any different do you know what it is when i was a child we had four
00:14seasons
00:14everybody was celebrated everyone was celebrated clocks back and forward is a great idea because
00:20you want kids to get to school in a decent hour not walk through the dark and it's that simple
00:25protection of your own children and your own self is staying with inside day time hours so i think
00:31it's a really good thing i'm glad we do it and i hope we still do i feel like it
00:35still makes sense
00:36to keep it reason being this because like it makes it easier everyone's used to that type of life so
00:40obviously i don't know in november december that's christmas time that october time halloween and
00:46just like different different cultures and that people just go along with it because it's a rule
00:50but if it was changed i don't think it make a difference unless people really believe in it
00:54but i don't think it make a difference a lot of the time like the clocks won't matter like our
01:00body will react to the light around us um that's what will release the hormones in our body like it's
01:05there are social cues that can help wake us up so for now every october clocks go back an hour
01:12moving the uk from british summertime to greenwich meantime that means lighter mornings and earlier
01:19sunsets throughout the winter british summertime returns on the 28th of march 2027 where of course
01:28the clocks go forward
01:29the clocks go forward
01:29the clocks go forward
01:29the clocks go forward
01:29the clocks go forward
01:30the clocks go forward

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