Irish Examiner view: Should we end daylight savings? Maybe we should all just sleep on it...

We're used to the 'spring forward / fall back' mantra, but some MEPs say we should stop changing our clocks back and forth every year

Daylight saving has been exercising people — for and against — all over the world even before it was introduced as an energy-saving ruse in the 1910s. This is a WWI-era postcard from the US in favour of introducing the system we have now. 

So, how was it for you? That extra hour in bed this weekend? Time well spent? Or perhaps you didn’t even notice the clocks had rewound to fulfill the “spring forward/fall back” rubric?

Almost as predictable as the biannual daylight savings ritual of putting our timepieces forward one hour in the spring, and reversing the process in the autumn, is the unresolved debate that accompanies it.