Clocks Back Tonight

[rtbcomp]

Don't forget clocks go back tonight (2 a.m. Sunday) so an extra hour in bed

 

[Ratty]

Just what I need artybee...I was horrified not to wake until 9.45 this morning, had it been tomorrow it would only have been 8.45 (which is quite late enough)

 

[Hitch]

Ideal, an extra hour to do some more decorating in the kitchen....

 

[Wozzaaah]

Great, an extra hour to lie in bed wide awake due to being woken up at stupid o'clock by the in-laws dog!

 

[malcolm]

Not again!

Why on earth are they still doing this. It's just silly. The lack of daylight in the winter is bad enough, but fiddling the clocks to make it dark early just makes people depressed. I prefer to get depressed in a nice gentle way.

Why did they ever start doing it? Wasn't it something to do with getting people to work in WW1 before they invented alarm clocks?

These days the only real difference seems to be the road fatalities which increase when they make the change - drivers are more alert in the mornings than the evenings.

BTW Thanks for the warning rtbcomp.

 

[Drains]

Dunno when they started it, but in WW2 it was 2 hours in the summer - "Double Summer Time", so the farmers would work later.

I think the problem now is perhaps that Greenwich Meantime (the winter one we're heading into), doesn't much suit the invention of electricity, and the accompanying fact that we live our days an hour or two later, cos we can. In the old days, everyone got up with the lark and went to bed when the smoke from the oil lamps got too much.

 

[Wozzaaah]

In the old days, everyone got up with the lark and went to bed when the smoke from the oil lamps got too much.

I didn't think you'd remember back that far Si

There is talk of extending British Summer Time another hour so we get even lighter evenings but apparently a few Scottish farmers are against the change.
Personally, I'd happily trade more daylight in the evenings against having it a bit darker in the mornings, I think most of us would.

 

[danelectro]

For me, it'll be waking up at 5:45 instead of the usual 6:45 (my body wakes when it's ready, not by the clock), so what on earth is the point.

Totally damn stupid. Just leave it as it is.

Tomorrow I shall be as happy as a bag of spuds dropped from a seventh floor balcony!!!!

 

[Alistair]

i need a extra hour so its all good, woken by some cowboy builders doing next doors at 7:45 with a bleeding stihl saw... i was peed off to say the least as i ALWAYS wait until 9am before even thinking about breaking the power tools out.

 

[the snooper]

british summertime what a laugh have we had summer yet

 

[chunkolini]

Some idiot had been at the cider last night and put some of his clocks forward.
Wifey was away, tragic really.

Chunko'.

 

[English Steve]

Farmer I work for never changes his clocks - says the cows and sheep don't change theirs so why should he?

 

[Welderpaul]

It just means that most of the clocks i don't bother changing now read the correct time again. Bonus.

 

[Robotstar5]

Thought I'd done all the clocks / timers at work on Sunday, forgot the timer on the compressors, should go off at 2215 for a 2230 finish, luckily when the screens started to show "low air pressure" alarms at 2130 last night it gave me a clue!

 

[malcolm]

The clock change has got me this year.

I've been waking up and starting work at the same time (now an hour early), but 4:00 seems a bit early to start getting distracted with other things so I've been keeping on going and end up going to bed at the correct time (an hour late). Probably it doesn't help that I haven't adjusted the clocks upstairs yet.

Wouldn't be bad if the work was productive, but I've been making the daftest mistakes all week and keep having to do everything twice.

It's madness to fiddle with time. Madness I tell ya! Hopefully Dr Who will come along and put them to rights.