Don't forget

[Michael Rolls]

to put the clocks on!!!!!!!!

[klondike]

Thanks for the reminder.

[Mups]

Yes,  thanks Michael.
I've done my cooker clock, and my Watch, both kitchen clocks,  and my old chiming clock in the front room.   I shall do my bedside clock when I turn in.

The worst one, and the one I always dread,  is my car clock.   I always have to get the handbook out because I can never remember what to press.  

[klondike]

I've done none. Most do themselves of those that don't I'll do maybe one. The rest will probably be correct as I didn't bother last time.

For somebody not usually over bothered what time it is there are an extraordinary number of  clocks in the house. The main reason I was glad to be reminded is that I won't be puzzling why I seem to have woken up so much later than usual.

The car clock will get done when it annoys me enough. One car I had used to do itself from the time carried by FM radio stations. The current car uses DAB but from memory I do have to set it. It is possible that it will become right either automatically or because I didn't put it back last time.

[Michael Rolls]

very, very windy which woke me at what the clock claimed was 0300, but which my body knew was really 0200!!

[GrannyMac]

Did them last night, will dig the handbook out in the car, like Mups, can't remember without it. 

[Scrumpy]

I don't bother with the motor clock.. 
Kitchen clock.. done..  Hall clock .. done.. Living room clock ... done..
Bedside clock.. done..

I will not touch the cooker clock.. It doesn't like me.. 

[JBR]

Watches, phones and several clocks sprung forward.  A clockwork clock we bought in the Black Forest, of course thinks it's still 25 past nine, and an old (second hand) mains powered clock the same.  I usually leave them both at this time of the year, but sooner or later I bother to move them forward.  I don't know why, though, because in six months I'm going to have to move them back again!
I've never been a fan of this change twice every year.

[Ashy]

I feel sure we don't need to inflict this on our country any more. Much as I would prefer permanent double summer time, if we left the clocks on GMT all year round it would save the upheaval and the expense of changing all the public clocks, and the nuisance of doing our own, and staff turning up late because they put the clock back instead of forward etc. 

When we tried summer time in the winter of 1968 there was outcry because children had to go to school in the dark in the western side of the country, which is also the north. That was 57 years ago, have they not installed street lighting in all that time?  

[klondike]

That Jehova feller messed up when he made it light at 4 o'oclock in the morning in the summer. I expect he got a backhander from the blackout curtain makers. Bonus from the electric companies in winter too making it dark about 4 in the afternoon. Poor design. Silly sod spent most of his time designing new beetles apparently. Bloody millions of species of them.

[dextrous63]

No need to change the clocks at all.

All that needs to happen is that everyone shifts their usual times for doing things by an hour, twice a year.

[JBR]

I too agree with the possibility of our remaining on GMT throughout the whole year.  Although I don't need to change most of the clocks, there is still the inconvenience of waking up to find that it is only 7am, as I did this morning.
I suppose that if I went to bed earlier, rather than my usual half-past 11, I wouldn't feel as tired at 7 in the morning, but that would make a great disruption to my routines.

March 30, 2025, 01:32:48 PM

No need to change the clocks at all.

All that needs to happen is that everyone shifts their usual times for doing things by an hour, twice a year.

Or just keep doing what we already do, but forget changing the clocks.  We have thick curtains.

[dextrous63]

Ah, but you could acclimatise your body clock by going abroad somewhere for a few weeks leading up to the changeover day(s).

[Michael Rolls]

takes me a few days to acclimatize - just don't see the need. Children going to school on the dark? MUCH better than them coming home in the dark

[Mups]

It doesn't  bother me much really,  not once I've done the clocks.  It's only twice a year after all,  not twice a month.  That really would be a pain!

I also really enjoyed the sunshine for that bit longer this evening too.