The Clocks Go Back...

[french frank]

Someone (usually ff, I think) used to have to make an adjustment somewhere!

Doh! I thought it worked automatically last year. This is as bad as my central heating programmer: switch the heating off for the summer and it won't come out of its sulk when I want it back on again.

I'll take a look down in the engine room.

Add: Sorted

[richardfinegold]

I have a cousin who married a man whose chief hobby is collecting clocks (he is quite OCD about time, such as “meet us at the restaurant at 6:17”). So every daylight savings time change the first thing I remember to do is text my cousin and say “I bet I know what your doing today.”

[Nick Armstrong]

I have a cousin who married a man whose chief hobby is collecting clocks (he is quite OCD about time, such as “meet us at the restaurant at 6:17”). So every daylight savings time change the first thing I remember to do is text my cousin and say “I bet I know what you’re ikesdoing today.

[Nick Armstrong]

Indeed.
I should have written: .....favour, if we have to change at all.
I'd actually prefer to stick to BST: lighter evenings safer and more useful.

I’m with you

[DracoM]

[oddoneout]

I forgot to reset my clocks, the first time in very many years. At least this one doesn't make you late. I did think it seemed quiet when I set off for the end of season get together at work, and there were only a couple of people in when I got there at what I thought was 9 am...

[french frank]

Oh, well. Time to get out the ladder to alter the wall clocks that are too high up to reach, a task which becomes more perilous each year (twice a year).

The UK may not be very big, considered on a global scale, but as a resident of the north of Scotland for a few years, I can confirm that the difference in the amount of daylight differs considerably between there and the south of England. I think the case for the Double British Summer Time was debated in Parliament, c 1970 (?) but was voted down.

[Dave2002]

What amuses me is the keep BST in winter lobby claim that there will be more daylight...


...just get up earlier!

Doesn't work if there are concerts or other events to go to in the evening, that just makes the sleeping time less.

[Serial_Apologist]

My stomach is really rumbling... and I still have an hour to go to my supper time!

[Joseph K]

My stomach is really rumbling... and I still have an hour to go to my supper time!

Well, we had tea 20 minutes earlier today. Not only that, but instead of lunch we had brunch (at a nice place, for my sister's birthday) almost like it was a throwback to yesterday.

[Old Grumpy]

Oh, well. Time to get out the ladder to alter the wall clocks that are too high up to reach, a task which becomes more perilous each year (twice a year).

The UK may not be very big, considered on a global scale, but as a resident of the north of Scotland for a few years, I can confirm that the difference in the amount of daylight differs considerably between there and the south of England. I think the case for the Double British Summer Time was debated in Parliament, c 1970 (?) but was voted down.

Is it not the Scots who object most to the concept of GMT + 1 in winter? In summer GMT + 2 would not make a huge difference to GMT + 1 in the North of Scotland

[Dave2002]

My stomach is really rumbling... and I still have an hour to go to my supper time!

Pets have been known to complain .... they don't understand what's happened.