Good Morning Sunshine

Tonight, everyone in the UK will be waking up an hour later in the morning as the clocks go back which means 2:00 am becomes 1:00 am and we all gain an extra hour in bed.
Inevitably, as regular as clockwork, the discussion will be why do we change the clocks at all and stay with permanent Daylight Saving time and that has been tried, and it was deeply unpopular and the idea scrapped.
In 1974, America placed most of the country on year-round daylight saving time beginning January 6, as part of an effort to reduce energy consumption during a period of fuel shortages and the policy was initially intended to last for nearly two years to conserve fuel and energy by extending evening daylight which would reduce electricity use and help conserve fuel.
The proposal was initially popular, one poll put the support at 79% and it looked good until Winter arrived when despite brighter evenings, the Sun would put in an appearance roughly one hour later than under standard time in the morning which meant large numbers of Americans starting their day in darkness.
Reports of schoolchildren involved in traffic accidents increased and a new poll put support now at 40% and public pressure grew to reverse the policy and it was scrapped after only one year and Congress voted to return the country to standard time during winter months.
The real kicker was the one teason it was introduced, which was to reduce fuel and energy remember, turned out to be rubbish because while electricity consumption fell in the evening, it increased during the darker mornings with no statistically significant effect on how much energy was used daily so to anyone moaning about having to take the 10 seconds to wind back their analogue clock, consider the later winter sunrises.