I live in Belgium (so South of Scotland) and with ST and a 8:30-15:30 schedule the sun has set by the time kids get to their first extracurricular activity (16:30).
As for getting to school, do not worry because kids still get there at night regardless and the sun rises just as the kids get forced inside the classroom underneath the neon lights.
The further North you go the more people pine for permanent DST because it’s our only chance at getting a bit of winter sunlight during our free time (the rush from bed to school/work doesn’t count IMO) and of not wasting summer sunlight at 4 am that is much better used for the 10 pm BBQ.
It’d be GRAND if we got rid of DST and all work/school institutions collectively decided to start an hour earlier in the summer instead. But that’s just DST with extra steps, and we know institutions are anything but flexible so it will never happen.
Permanent ST is my own personal hell. If that ever happens I genuinely think I will go freelance and become a hermit.
I live in Belgium (so South of Scotland) and with ST and a 8:30-15:30 schedule the sun has set by the time kids get to their first extracurricular activity (16:30).
As for getting to school, do not worry because kids still get there at night regardless and the sun rises just as the kids get forced inside the classroom underneath the neon lights.
The further North you go the more people pine for permanent DST because it’s our only chance at getting a bit of winter sunlight during our free time (the rush from bed to school/work doesn’t count IMO) and of not wasting summer sunlight at 4 am that is much better used for the 10 pm BBQ.
It’d be GRAND if we got rid of DST and all work/school institutions collectively decided to start an hour earlier in the summer instead. But that’s just DST with extra steps, and we know institutions are anything but flexible so it will never happen.
Permanent ST is my own personal hell. If that ever happens I genuinely think I will go freelance and become a hermit.