Clocks go back,just a reminder.....

[saint lard]

Clocks go back tomorrow morning @ 2am.

Not that anyone would forget

[dubai_phil]

Boooo means we have to stay up until 2am to listen to midweek games

[RedAndWhite91]

I hate it when the clocks go back... I have work at 7am on a Sunday, and I always think I am going to be either an hour early or an hour late. I get easily confused by it all.

[hamster]

Some people seem unperturbed when the clocls move, others like me really struggle to get our heads around it.

 

When we wake up tomorrrow morining will we have had an hour more or an hour less sleep than usual?

 

Is it not about time that this ridiculous nonsensical moronic thing was scrapped? Am I right in believing that this week is the worst for road accidents due to this too?

[wheels]

It's so that the Scottish farmers don't have to milk their cows in the dark of an evening

[saint lard]

Some people seem unperturbed when the clocls move, others like me really struggle to get our heads around it.

 

When we wake up tomorrrow morining will we have had an hour more or an hour less sleep than usual?

 

Is it not about time that this ridiculous nonsensical moronic thing was scrapped? Am I right in believing that this week is the worst for road accidents due to this too?

Are there more women driving on the road this week?

 

 

Oh,and we gain an hours sleep.

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[Hatch]

We sleep exactly the same amount

[saint lard]

We sleep exactly the same amount

Ok,we gain an extra hour in which we have the opportunity to sleep a little longer.

Unless you have a nipper that will wake you whatever time he likes,then i gain nowt.

[ShirleySaint]

 

When we wake up tomorrrow morining will we have had an hour more or an hour less sleep than usual?

 

 

Tomorrow it's an hour extra. I remember which way it is by this simple nmemonic (spl)

 

Spring forward - Fall (American Autumn) back

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[St Landrew]

Some people seem unperturbed when the clocls move, others like me really struggle to get our heads around it.

 

When we wake up tomorrrow morining will we have had an hour more or an hour less sleep than usual?

 

Is it not about time that this ridiculous nonsensical moronic thing was scrapped? Am I right in believing that this week is the worst for road accidents due to this too?

 

So many people have problems with it. People even get ill and depressed by it. Crime rate goes up because it. Traffic accidents rise because of it. Even UK power consumption goes up because of it. It even costs the UK financially to keep doing it. And the list goes on. But the Govt says they can find no call from the British people to stop doing it, despite getting petition after petition every sodding year.

 

You're right, it is an out-dated procedure, and there are valid reasons for scrapping it. Yes, it is the UK moving back to its own Greenwich Mean Time, or nowadays called Universal Time Coordinated, but only a few countries have their times set right on it. For example, France, much of which is directly south of the UK, remains 1 hour in advance, and so enjoys 1 extra hour of evening daylight than we do. Seems sensible to me.

 

Most countries set their times so that they make the most use of evening light, without being bloody silly about it and putting their citizens into early daytime blackness. But we seem to have this pathetic idea that we're helping a couple of crofters in Scotland, who have since discovered the torch anyway, and on the UK goes into the gloom of winter.

 

So, until the last weekend in March 2010, we have 5 months of unnecessarily dark evenings. Already can't wait for the clocks to go forward again. Scrap the whole thing and let's stay at BST.

[Thedelldays]

doesnt this happen in other countries..?

 

if you get depressed that the clocks shift an hour then I suggest that you get a life

[St Landrew]

doesnt this happen in other countries..?

 

if you get depressed that the clocks shift an hour then I suggest that you get a life

 

There are some people who have real mental health problems having to cope with the sudden lack of daylight in their awake hours. I can work in artificial light, it doesn't bother me. Most of my leisure time is spent outside doing recreational pursuits that are far more enjoyable in daylight. Which kind of answers your question. Life got.

 

I might make the observation that, because you are cooped up in a submarine, for a lot of your time, your comments might be considered slightly less valid than from someone who maximises the daylight hours. But I'm not one for sweeping statements, so I would never say that.

[sadoldgit]

I hate it when the clocks go back... I have work at 7am on a Sunday, and I always think I am going to be either an hour early or an hour late. I get easily confused by it all.

 

I think you will find that you still have to work at 7 am!

[Baj]

Why the hell are people, mainly st landrew, banging on about us doing this to help Scottish farmers, the whole of western Europe do it. (though some smart arse will probably find one country/principality/duchy that doesnt

[St Landrew]

Why the hell are people, mainly st landrew, banging on about us doing this to help Scottish farmers, the whole of western Europe do it. (though some smart arse will probably find one country/principality/duchy that doesnt

 

Because I like daylight when I can enjoy it, and so do a lot of other people. Remember Baj, that Europe is already one or two hours ahead of the UK. Putting their clocks back still gives them bags of daylight.

 

EDIT: The Scottish farmers thing is an age old reason. I'm not sure what the Govt use as a valid reason for putting the clocks back now.

[OttawaSaint]

Hey Jimmy Hill, don't forget to put your **** back!

[Baj]

My reason was crap, hence why i deleted my post.

 

Were just in a **** location being Northwest of mainland europe and being an hour back. the easiest solution would be for us to join CET, but give up GMT/UTC, thatll never happen

[St Landrew]

My reason was crap, hence why i deleted my post.

 

Were just in a **** location being Northwest of mainland europe and being an hour back. the easiest solution would be for us to join CET, but give up GMT/UTC, thatll never happen

 

Yeah, I saw the previous post. I deleted my answer..! You are absolutely right here. But there is always a faint hope. The UK has actually done it before, which is why there is real evidence.

[sadoldgit]

Perhaps we should all just carry on as if the clocks hadn't changed?

[Red Alert]

Erm...call me stupid if you will. But don't we get an extra hour of evening light because of this? I mean what will be 4pm would have been 5pm so I cant see what the problem with less light could be :confused: Or am I a mental?

[Hatch]

Erm...call me stupid if you will. But don't we get an extra hour of evening light because of this? I mean what will be 4pm would have been 5pm so I cant see what the problem with less light could be :confused: Or am I a mental?

 

 

Its a morning thing

[Jillyanne]

Erm...call me stupid if you will. But don't we get an extra hour of evening light because of this? I mean what will be 4pm would have been 5pm so I cant see what the problem with less light could be :confused: Or am I a mental?

 

Look at it as it gets dark at say, 6pm now, well tomorrow it will get dark at 5pm - an hour earlier therefore an hours less light!

[Red Alert]

Look at it as it gets dark at say, 6pm now, well tomorrow it will get dark at 5pm - an hour earlier therefore an hours less light!

 

AAhhhhhhhhhhhhh now I get it.

 

Thanks.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

Erm...call me stupid if you will. But don't we get an extra hour of evening light because of this? I mean what will be 4pm would have been 5pm so I cant see what the problem with less light could be :confused: Or am I a mental?

 

So if it's dark at 18.30 BST today, we then put the clock back one hour (overnight) to GMT so that 18.30 BST today becomes 17.30 GMT tomorrow. Hey presto it's now going to be dark at 17.30 tomorrow!

 

Stupid? No. Easily confused (like me)? Yes.

[RedArmy]

Ok,we gain an extra hour in which we have the opportunity to sleep a little longer.

Unless you have a nipper that will wake you whatever time he likes,then i gain nowt.

We don't gain a thing, we just get back the hour that we "lost" in the spring.

[Draino76]

When the weather turns to poo; we are compensated by an extra hour in bed.

[saint lard]

We don't gain a thing, we just get back the hour that we "lost" in the spring.

Well,we gain an hour on what we had last night.

[hamster]

Can I just make sure that I have got this right now.

 

Before I go to bed (or first thing in the morning) I should adjust my bedside clock BACKWARDS 1 hour and I need to change my alarm too by 1 hour, yes?

[tpbury]

Just go to bed and see what happens. Report back, because the excitement is killing me. Here in Brisbane, the light goes at 6:30 and everyone's tucked up in bed by 9:30 for a 5:30 start. It's doing my head in.

 

What's more, Queensland doesn't do daylight saving which all the other states seem to, and that's pretty strange as well.

[saint lard]

Anyone got the correct time please.

[dubai_phil]

What's daylight saving?

 

 

Some new dodgy Banking Investment scheme?

 

 

Time flies, it doesn't go backwards or forwards - otherwise we'd have gone back to get ML onboard while we were still in the PL

[St.Jeweller]

Anyone got the correct time please.

 

it's 8:56 which is strange because you posted this in just over half an hours time.

[saintwarwick]

So if it's dark at 18.30 BST today, we then put the clock back one hour (overnight) to GMT so that 18.30 BST today becomes 17.30 GMT tomorrow. Hey presto it's now going to be dark at 17.30 tomorrow!

 

Stupid? No. Easily confused (like me)? Yes.

 

But you do get the extra hours light in the morning to enjoy

[saintwarwick]

Well I was working at two this morning and I didn't find myself moving back one hour.

[hamster]

What's daylight saving?

 

 

Some new dodgy Banking Investment scheme?

 

 

LOL

 

Just reminded me of a 'Time Management' course I was forced to attend a few years ago. at the atart the teacher said that if you set your alarm clock to go off 12 minutes earlier each day, you would have made yourself a whole extra hour of time to do with what you wanted. He ended the day by asking what we would all do with that extra hour we'd 'banked'?

 

I don't think he was too impressed when i said I'd spend it in bed.

 

I hate to think how much my (then) boss paid for that nugget?

[hamster]

I heard earlier that all the clocks in Portsmouth were put back 5 years by mistake and when they all wake up they will be back in the CCC.

[saint lard]

Well,i have just put mine back again,thought i would do this everyday this week,just a social experiment,eventually i think i might be in the same time zone as NYC at some point.i should be ok to phone my friend over there then without the fear of waking them up.

[Saint Paul C]

Just go to bed and see what happens. Report back, because the excitement is killing me. Here in Brisbane, the light goes at 6:30 and everyone's tucked up in bed by 9:30 for a 5:30 start. It's doing my head in.

 

What's more, Queensland doesn't do daylight saving which all the other states seem to, and that's pretty strange as well.

 

Daft Queenslanders. They won't let us change the clocks to keep in time with Sydney and Melbourne so as not to upset the bloody farmers up North (remember - changing the clocks will upset the cows and fade the carpets..) FFS. Just means that I mainly work from 7:30 till 4pm instead.

[saintdavey]

And now all my weekly conference calls with the UK which were between 4pm-6pm my time are now an hour later for me! Try and get them to come in an hour earlier? No chance!!

[tpbury]

Most well paying jobs get you working 24/7 anyway.

[Rattlehead]

It's an hour, it is nothing. Anyone who struggles to cope with an 'extra' hour is a loser.