2 DECEMBER 1978, Page 18

Daylight saving

Sir: If for the sake of energy conservation we must change our habits, and assuming the correctness of Mr Hodgson's tenet that man's jobs are done most efficiently from dawn to dusk, would it not be most simple to follow the example of a few millenia of farmers, and work longer hours in summer and shorter in winter?

Anne Blonstein Selwyn College, Cambridge