GMT

[BBMmk2]

Is there much point of having these time changes now?

[french frank]

Pulling the phone from a breast pocket to check the time often feels a similar gesture to pulling out a fob watch c. 1840...

Fortunately most pairs of jeans have a watch pocket, which gives me the same feeling:

[amateur51]

Fortunately most pairs of jeans have a watch pocket, which gives me the same feeling:

Very nice indeed, ff - worthy of the term 'time piece' I'd say

Does it chime on the hour?

[mercia]

is it that time again ?

[MrGongGong]

is it that time again ?

Indeed , it's time for the nonsense about how was can "save" money and "get" more work done by not changing the clocks
when we could just do what most folks do GET UP EARLIER if you need to

[french frank]

As usual the forum clock seems not to have detected the change (your own setting will probably overrule that). Will investigate, as usual <sigh>

[Nick Armstrong]

As usual the forum clock seems not to have detected the change (your own setting will probably overrule that). Will investigate, as usual <sigh>

Yup that post showing as 10:34

[french frank]

Yup that post showing as 10:34

Not sure whether that was because I changed it at that very moment or because you have the correct setting via your own settings.

The problem is for people who aren't logged in as members (or don't have their own setting which automatically adjusts). They will see a 'forum time' as an hour wrong and - I think - the post times as wrong too. But it does seem that this has to be alterered manually each time.

[vinteuil]

... clock seems fine here. Currently showing 10:45 hh

[french frank]

YOU DIDN'T REMIND ME

[ahinton]

What a good thing it will be (and by no means only for the running of this forum) when all this clock changing nonsense is abolished!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What a good thing it will be (and by no means only for the running of this forum) when all this clock changing nonsense is abolished!

YES! (Clinking of Lagavulin glasses emoticon)

(Didn't they stop doing it for a time in the late '60s/early '70s?)

[teamsaint]

Can't agree.
We get lovely long evenings in the summer, instead of it being light at silly o'clock in the morning.

In the winter at least there is a semblance of light in the morning. If we stuck to BST it would be dark till well into the morning. Horrible. (but a matter of opinion !)

There's nothing to stop the board making a UDI and doing its own thing . It seems to most other ways !

Edit: I would like double summer time , but i don't suppose i would have done when the kids were young.

[Petrushka]

We either change to GMT about two or three weeks too early or don't need to change at all. Scotland is frequently cited as the reason why we do change but why can't they have their own time zone? It seems to work well in other countries (I think both Russia and Canada have six) ad I'm sure it would work as well north of the border.

Perhaps our Scottish friends would like to comment?

Double summer time was used during the Second World War and again from 1968 to 1971 but abandoned thereafter.

[Sir Velo]

We either change to GMT about two or three weeks too early or don't need to change at all. Scotland is frequently cited as the reason why we do change but why can't they have their own time zone? It seems to work well in other countries (I think both Russia and Canada have six) ad I'm sure it would work as well north of the border.

Perhaps our Scottish friends would like to comment?

I'm not Scots but I completely agree Petrushka. Nothing more depressing than long, dark evenings (worse by far than dark mornings IMO). In the summer we completely waste all that lovely early morning daylight by not going GMT +2. I always understood it was the farmers that lobbied for putting the clocks back, but now it seems that less than 10% of the UK population can dictate to the rest of us.