This stupid and inane bi-annual ritual of fiddling around with the clocks, is long overdue someone banishing it unceremoniously to the annals of history.

'The idea of summer time, or daylight saving time, was first suggested in a whimsical article by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, but it was first seriously proposed in 1907 in Britain by a keen horse-rider, William Willett, who was incensed at the 'waste' of useful daylight first thing in the morning, during summer'.

The above is like something from a Monty Python script. It's difficult to invent, even for comedic purposes.