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Utter confusion, I thought the clocks went back Sunday night / Monday morning. So with half our clocks changed and half not, what time is it today? 🤷♂️
Surely the pc or phone you're on will tell you 😜
But otherwise it's spring forward, fall back. And it was 1am it changed. Not sure why 1am though.
Thanks to HS2 tunneling works, for me this morning it was…
thought the clocks went back Sunday night / Monday morning
OK, nobody tell him and we'll wait for the "why are some of my clocks 2 hours out from the others" thread tomorrow 🙂
Why do we still do it? I can see bow it made sense years ago but just seems daft nowadays.
Chico time!
It happens twice a year but always a surprise to Medzy. Always an hour early or late for his shift, didn’t matter if it was days or nights, woe betide you in the next fifteen hours if you even glanced in his direction with a twinkle in your eyes!
Time after time
Excellent, clock in the van is right again.
And it was 1am it changed. Not sure why 1am though.
1am GMT or 1am BST?
Excellent, clock in the van is right again.
This!
Nightshift so only 11 instead of 12 hours lastnight.
It all counts
I'm on days so lost an hour between shifts 🤮 Alarm went off at 4:30, or 3:30 in old money 😩
Have you woken up in an old folks home?
Anyway, the hour difference means garden breakfast has resulted in me not being able to feel my butter spreading hands, I might give it an hour and try again
Aye police Scotland(well old L&B) told officers to go in at 4pm for start of night shift instead of 5pm, no give away time for them.
Anyway, the hour difference means garden breakfast has resulted in me not being able to feel my butter spreading hands, I might give it an hour and try again
Just when you think we’d already achieved Peak STW, someone tops it 😂
@kryton57 - my Citizen dive watch is now correct as I didn't change it in the Autumn.
Now then ... what watch for Easter Sunday breakfast with our visiting family members, who aren't into watches. There will be yoghurt, granola, fruit and a range of breakfast bread products. G-Shock, dive, dress or pseudo-flieger?
The winter beard has come off (via a monkey tail for two days because the unbalance upsets my wife).
What I don't understand is why BST is 7 months? Why not 6? That upsets me.
my butter spreading hands,
We should have a whip round and buy RD some cutlery.
Just when you think we’d already achieved Peak STW, someone tops it
it was artisanal sourdough but a massive fail as I didn't make it in my shed or bake it in a home made Dutch oven buried in the garden 😢
We should have a whip round and buy RD [s]some cutlery[/s]. a big, sharp, locking knife
FTFY
I'm in Belgium this weekend just to add to the confusion.
My missis at breakfast said, 'do the clocks go backwards here too?'
No love, just forwards, europe is actually 3.5 weeks ahead of the UK. 🤣
Aye police Scotland(well old L&B) told officers to go in at 4pm for start of night shift instead of 5pm, no give away time for them.
How is that going to work in winter are the night shift going in an hour late leaving no cops on the street for an hour ?
My Dad knows the date and direction. I know neither but thankfully the internet and gps devices don't need me to do a thing.
******* stupid nonsense. We should just use BST year round.
Time marches on never ending,
Time keeps its own time,
Here we stand at beginning,
And then goes passing us by
Not sure why 1am though.
Because that the first whole hour where its unlikely to cause any real confusion (unless in the Kyrton household!). If they change at 1am then that put them back to midnight and I imagine that has potential to confuse systems (and people) as to which day it is. 2am change puts them back to 1am so clearly still the same day as the change
The only thing I know is that we will have an hour less rain today!
Spent £80 taking the family to Stonehenge yesterday, total waste of money, couldn’t get near the stones as they were putting the clocks forward.
I helpfully went over and put all my elderly relative's clocks back an hour yesterday. In the dog house today.
In the dog house today.
Strange place to have a clock. Is it a watch dog?
******* stupid nonsense. We should just use BST year round.
That would be difficult? Are you allowed to change your time zone?
stupid nonsense. We should just use BST year round.
I believe this was tried in the 70s, getting up 2-3hrs before sunrise was really hard for a lot of people and morning rush hour in full darkness was difficult and dangerous. IIRC daylight savings time does save lives.
In the dog house today.
Strange place to have a clock
True. But if they had a dog I'm fairly certain there'd be a clock in the kennel. Old people own a lot of clocks.
Is it a watch dog?
A potential death trap.
“ cops on the street”
Where is this mythical place you speak of ??😉
stupid nonsense. We should just use BST year round.
They're just numbers. We could just use UTC globally and then all this time zone conversion nonsense goes away. You want to observe DST, work 9-5 in winter and 10-6 in summer. The US East Coast starts work at 4am UTC.
Maybe. 😁
use UTC globally
It works for the calendar - imagine the fun if itoday was 30th September in the southern hemisphere (cos it's autumn there so has to be the Sep Oct Nov) and on the equator they just called every month June.
I believe this gentleman knows.
zomg
******* stupid nonsense. We should just use BST year round.
No chance. I’d settle for GMT all year. BST is blinking stupid.
@Kryton57 - don’t you have a reliable old school watch that keeps time until you change it? If not there’s a thread somewhere on here that will help…
@Kryton57 – don’t you have a reliable old school watch that keeps time until you change it? If not there’s a thread somewhere on here that will help…
Bizarrely yes a 5610U which was on my nightstand next to Alexa. Alexa changed, the 5610u didnt sync and nor had my Fenix as I put it on and this is what caused the confusion.
To0 make it worse, the Zwift event I entered was an hour later than the point at which I was sitting in the mancave. And now I've packed the car for Tour du Afan commencing tomorrow 2hrs earlier than I expected. My head is screwed.
Anyway, beer...
“ My missis at breakfast said, ‘do the clocks go backwards here too?’
No love, just forwards, europe is actually 3.5 weeks ahead of the UK. 🤣”
So will you put your Calendar forward?
Afan commencing tomorrow 2hrs earlier than I expected
It’s still the same time.
@midlifecrashes😂😂
I hate the clocks changing. Total waste of time
No, it's the same amount of time.
No chance. I’d settle for GMT all year. BST is blinking stupid.
I’ll take UST but with an 8am school start. GMT can FRO.
A (good) few years ago, before phones, camping in France we ( I ) moved our watches the wrong way.
Cons: never any croissant left in the shop.
Pro: we had the pool to ourselves in the evening
We realised, thank goodness two days before returning to the ferry.
Rail works behind the house all night. Woken up by snoring at 4AM and planes landing and dog at 5AM. One hour lost? I should be so lucky. Zwift von Vlanderen at 9 in Zone 2 was ok though.
Spring forward and Fall back. That’s how I was always taught to remember it.
I’d agree it’s annoying anachronism.
It mystifies me that what I presume are grown up people with responsible jobs (you lot of naysayers), can't cope with this simple process.
I bet you're also confused when you go to bed on December 31st and wake up in a new year...
Are you similarly confused when you wake up on February 29th?
It adds to the confusion that the US moved a couple of weeks ago, so any teams meetings arranged by the US team moved forward an hour, whilst any arranged by the UK team didn’t. Until now. Thanks Microsoft…
They went a week early this year so instead of 2 weeks it was 3 when they were an hour closer
So about an hour ago I got 2 texts from my sister...
The first was to remind me the clocks went back today.
A minute later I got the inevitable second one, that they actually went forward.
😁
It mystifies me that what I presume are grown up people with responsible jobs (you lot of naysayers), can’t cope with this simple process.
Grown ups with responsible jobs fix bad processes. Children with responsible jobs cope with them.
(I’m just joking, obviously, fixing our stupid time zones is more a passion project than a responsible job.)
There was a farmer on the radio moaning about the changing clocks. He said that he had to prepare his cows by gradually changing the time because if he changed from one day to the next the cows would be stressed and leaking milk due to being milked late or not ready to be milked. Thing is, why doesn't he just milk them at the same time GMT whatever his watch says?
Ironically one of the stories about clock changing I remember being told at school is that it’s done to benefit farmers to maximise winter daytime daylight.
It could have been even more complex!
From wiki:
British Summer Time was first established by the Summer Time Act 1916, after a campaign by builder William Willett. His original proposal was to move the clocks forward by 80 minutes, in 20-minute weekly steps on Sundays in April and by the reverse procedure in September.
There must be a reasonable case for switching to BST a month sooner, it's pretty light by end of feb in the morning
I found out at about 2 oclock that it had changed. Luckily while all the clocks in my house are digital and cleverer than me, my car's clock like me is analogue and stupid and so it let me know
I'm pretty confident it's sunday though. Probably 2024, still?
******* stupid nonsense. We should just use BST year round.
Might I suggest you stand somewhere north of the Scottish border and demand that. I’m sure there might be a few people wanting to have a conversation about it…
Having bought a Casio ‘CasiOak’ to see how it was for modding, and finding it’s pretty easy, I’ve bought another one, but a slightly more expensive one, with a solar powered battery and Bluetooth, which syncs with my phone via a Casio app. Synced it yesterday morning, went to bed last night, and the watch was exactly the right time this morning! I’ve got a couple of old analogue clocks to adjust, but they’re not important. Chuffed about the Casio, my years old analogue one is such a royal pita to adjust backwards because yo have to hold one button down and wind it v e r y s l o w l y round and round to arrive at an hour slower. I stopped wearing it, I lost the will to live, but this new one is excellent. Plus I can program alarms, different time-zones, etc just using my phone. 😁
I’m painting lume onto the hour markers from the first CasiOak, which I’ll transfer to the new one eventually.