FIGURES from a straw poll we conducted on our Facebook pages over the weekend show the majority of readers would prefer daylight saving time to be scrapped.
Ahead of the clocks going back an hour on Sunday, we asked whether people were happy with the changes – forward an hour in March and back an hour in October – or whether they would prefer the country to be on British Summer Time all year round.
Almost 800 people responded across Bromsgrove, Redditch, Droitwich and Kidderminster to the survey.
Overall, 411 people (52 per cent), said they would prefer to scrap daylight saving time and stay on British Summer Time indefinitely. Almost 300 (37 per cent) liked the clocks changing and the remaining 11 per cent did not mind either way.
The Bromsgrove Standard Facebook page got the biggest response with 416 people voting and it also had the largest percentage of people wanting to end daylight saving time (at 60 per cent).
A total of 30 per cent wanted the clock-changing to stay and 10 per cent did not mind.
Similarly, 58 per cent of Kidderminster Standard readers would prefer to scrap daylight saving time, with 32 per cent wanting the changes to stay – 10 per cent were not bothered either way.
Redditch Standard readers were the most in favour of keeping the clock-changing – 50 per cent of the borough’s readers wanted to keep it, with 40 per cent wanting to stay on British Summer
Time and 10 per cent having no preference.
In Droitwich, 50 per cent of readers said they wanted to scrap daylight saving time, 33 per cent prefer putting the clocks forward and back and 17 per cent were easy going either way.
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