Clocks / Forum Time

[Beef Oven!]

When the clocks went back in UK, the forum clock seemed to swap between GMT and GMT+1.

Now the forum clock says 18:53
My Macbook says 20:53 I'm in Istanbul) which the time should be here (see below)
My watch, tuned to Erdogan time (he didn't want dark mornings while people were voting etc, so the clocks don't go back here until November 8th) says 21:53 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34631326

[ahinton]

When the clocks went back in UK, the forum clock seemed to swap between GMT and GMT+1.

Now the forum clock says 18:53
My Macbook says 20:53 I'm in Istanbul) which the time should be here (see below)
My watch, tuned to Erdogan time (he didn't want dark mornings while people were voting etc, so the clocks don't go back here until November 8th) says 21:53 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34631326

I really do wish that this utterly stupid and unnecessary "tradition" of putting the clocks forward and back once each year would finally be consigned to the dustbin of history where it has so long rightfully belonged; what used once to be referred to (incredibly) as "daylight saving tme" despite the fact that no one from the meteorologist to the investment banker could ever actually "save" any "daylight time" is surely one of the most absurd antediluvian phenomena with which most of us continue to be beleaguered for whatever reason or (far more likely) none.

[ardcarp]

Do you remember one year (in the sixties?) when they didn't put the clocks back in Winter? The experiment was not repeated because of the evenings being 'dangerously dark' as schoolkids made their way home. Bear in mind we all wore dark navy gaberdeen macs and walked (or cycled) to and from school.

[Pulcinella]

Forum time still oscillating between GMT and GMT+1 on my iPad, making me quite queasy!

[Pulcinella]

Do you remember one year (in the sixties?) when they didn't put the clocks back in Winter? The experiment was not repeated because of the evenings being 'dangerously dark' as schoolkids made their way home. Bear in mind we all wore dark navy gaberdeen macs and walked (or cycled) to and from school.

Wrong way round, surely? Evenings are darker with the hour changed back, as now.
Agree completely that there is no daylight to be saved, but we can use what there is more efficiently.
And in terms of schoolchildren going to and from school, darker getting lighter (mornings) is safer than darker getting darker (evenings), so it is better to use the light at the end of the day. I don't buy the argument about cows in Scotland.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Do you remember one year (in the sixties?) when they didn't put the clocks back in Winter? The experiment was not repeated because of the evenings being 'dangerously dark' as schoolkids made their way home. Bear in mind we all wore dark navy gaberdeen macs and walked (or cycled) to and from school.

I do remember - but it was a three-year "experiment" between 1968 and 1971. In 1970, I even asked my parents if they remembered the days when they used to put the clocks back!

As Pulci says, it was the mornings that were affected - with huge increase of sales in reflective jackets and arm bands in school - but it didn't seem particularly worse than usual. Everybody seemed to prefer it (from the very small sample of people I knew at the time ) and it was said that it was just Edward Heath being petty and reversing Wilson's decision.

[teamsaint]

Double summer time would be good for most people too,I think.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Double summer time would be good for most people too,I think.

Blimey? You mean four whole weeks???!!!!

[cloughie]

Double summer time would be good for most people too,I think.

Why? What on earth difference would it make - however you fiddle the clocks there's the same amount of light. It might save a bit of juice on the floodlights at St Mary's and Hillsborough in December and January but otherwise ...

[cloughie]

Blimey? You mean four whole weeks???!!!!

I quite like Spring - can we have another month of that?

[teamsaint]

Why? What on earth difference would it make - however you fiddle the clocks there's the same amount of light. It might save a bit of juice on the floodlights at St Mary's and Hillsborough in December and January but otherwise ...

Longer evenings for cricket ,just for starters.

Longer lighter evenings for people who have to work regular office hours in summer.

The new floodlights at SMS are horrible, everybody hates them. dazzlingly bright.
Our team seemed to see ok under the old lights.
More often than not, anyway.

[teamsaint]

Blimey? You mean four whole weeks???!!!!

Just at weekends then?

[french frank]

Forum time still oscillating between GMT and GMT+1 on my iPad, making me quite queasy!

Anyone else finding this? Every time I look it's GMT.

I've checked the setting on the ACP and it's set to enable DST. But it does say:

"If Daylight Savings Time is currently in effect for the above time zone, enable this option so that guests will see the correct times on posts and events. This has no effect on registered users as they control their DST options in the User CP."

General Settings > Date & Time Options. If you've already done that ………

[mercia]

General Settings > Date & Time Options. If you've already done that ………

I am in GMT Western Europe Time with automatic detect DST..... but when I log out of the forum the time is GMT+1 so your post above appears to have been [will have been] at 09:59

[cloughie]

Longer evenings for cricket ,just for starters.

Longer lighter evenings for people who have to work regular office hours in summer.

The new floodlights at SMS are horrible, everybody hates them. dazzlingly bright.
Our team seemed to see ok under the old lights.
More often than not, anyway.

But if you have longer lighter evenings you have darker mornings - I may be an Owl but I have a strong Lark side! And I don't relish the thought of dark September mornings!