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Not a rant because I forgot to change them last night, more a general rant against the pointlessness of changing them all twice a year. Surely it's simple enough to just alter working or school hours as necessary.

Being a sad old fekkah, I change the ones that need doing manually the night before, just before going to bed, although there are always a few that escape - cars for example! Only need to do a couple of watches since the others are radio controlled or kept set to Greek summer time. Hardest one to set has no buttons or knobs to do so and takes a few days to adjust - the body clock!
 
We only have one manual clock in the house, plus watches, so did those before going to bed, everything else has done itself, will do the cars when I can be bothered ;)

I do agree though, I am not sure all this clock changing, not just here but in various parts of the world, has a useful purpose any more. I am sure posties and a few other jobs still appreciate it, but generally speaking all seems a bit pointless.
 
Always has seemed pretty pointless to me for the majority of us, why not have a different time zone for the far north of the UK.

Just changed all the manual clocks, really hate the dark early evenings, doesn't seem to make the mornings lighter for long either
 
Speaking as a postie, these days with later starting times it make absolutely no difference
 
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Hate the time change......takes me weeks to get myself sorted and back into routine....give Scotland et al their own zone.
 
Here's another idea to run past you. Put them forward 2 hours in the summer, them leave it at that forever. Job done! At least then I might see some daylight after work in the winter coupled with lovely long BBQ evenings in the summer. The photographic bonus is later sunrise in the summer.
 
Or just leave them on GMT the whole time and stop faffing around.

The BST all year experiment was a disaster. Changing clocks doesn't create any more daylight. It just moves it. Far easier to change start and finish times locally for the best compromise and stagger rush hours more.
 
We all managed to change our clocks, but my old mum forgot, so she rang us at 7.15.
I couldn't be too cross as she did spend yesterday in hospital but for once I was enjoying a lie in..
 
Craig20264 said:
I fear this would have chaotic consequences for businesses.
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Or keep GMT and keep start times the same. Problem solved. GMT used to work perfectly well before we had electricity so there is no reason it won't work fine now.

Businesses cause chaos in people's lives when they stick them on zero hours contracts. I'm not that sympathetic to them whining about their inconvenience.
 
My system is, be self employed, get up when I wake up eat breakfast and go to work when I'm ready. Complete my days work then come home, and don't really care what the clock says. Because I don't have to get up I find it much easier to get up if that makes sense. The only time I've used an alarm clock in the last few years is to get up for sunrise togging trips or holiday flights, and even then I'm normally awake before it goes off.

The only down side I can see is it takes away the joy of having a lie in on days off. :)
 
Now is when I start to feel like a mole. Go to work in the dark...come home in the dark. Horrible.
Stick it on UTC and leave it there. Job done.
 
It takes at least two people two long days to change all the clocks in Buckingham Palace. There are about 25M households in the UK. If each one takes 6 minutes to change the clocks (that's a deliberately conservative estimate) it takes at least 2.5M hours, that's at least .3M working days, that's at least 1,000 working years, to change the clocks.

It's even earlier than I think it is, so please correct my ariffymatic :-)
 
chris malcolm said:
It takes at least two people two long days to change all the clocks in Buckingham Palace. There are about 25M households in the UK. If each one takes 6 minutes to change the clocks (that's a deliberately conservative estimate) it takes at least 2.5M hours, that's at least .3M working days, that's at least 1,000 working years, to change the clocks.

It's even earlier than I think it is, so please correct my ariffymatic :-)
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6 minutes to change each clock? What sort of clocks do you have?
 
I guess it is more for the benefit for farmers. By changing the clock back to GMT at this time of the year mean that famers can carry on preparing and delivering livestock to the market first thing in the morning as normal during the winter rather than wait late into the morning for daylight to appear. But I guess that is a throwback from the days when there wasn't as much useful artificial lighting.
And then if we were to stay on GMT during the summer, it would get light by 2 am in June which is a bit of a waste for most of us. I guess ever since this clock changing concept started, we just got stuck with it out of habit.
Speaking as a greenhouse worker where the place had no artificial lighting, I could see how the clock changing did use to work for me, I'm not sure I want to get up at 3 am instead of 4 am to start work! Nor do I want to hang around waiting it becomes light enough at 9 am to work during the winter months. However, now that I'm no longer working in the greenhouse trade, it is a bit of a moot point for me anyway.
 
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You have it easy nowadays compared to Avebury

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I have a system as I could not work out how to change the time on my watch - I have a summer and a winter watch.
Can't afford a second car though:(
 
Nod said:
Not really that annoyed, just think that it's a PITA and a total waste of time.
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The lighter later summer evenings are a bonus, but I agree its a bit of a PITA
and just seems "old fashioned" somehow.
 
tijuana taxi said:
Always has seemed pretty pointless to me for the majority of us, why not have a different time zone for the far north of the UK.

Just changed all the manual clocks, really hate the dark early evenings, doesn't seem to make the mornings lighter for long either
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erm because it's due to longitude. not latitude. Earth spins on a tilted axis, does not go over and over.
 
Big Andy said:
My system is, be self employed, get up when I wake up eat breakfast and go to work when I'm ready. Complete my days work then come home, and don't really care what the clock says. Because I don't have to get up I find it much easier to get up if that makes sense. The only time I've used an alarm clock in the last few years is to get up for sunrise togging trips or holiday flights, and even then I'm normally awake before it goes off.

The only down side I can see is it takes away the joy of having a lie in on days off. :)
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You are me and ICM£5 :plus1:
 
srichards said:
Far easier to change start and finish times locally for the best compromise and stagger rush hours more.
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Craig20264 said:
I fear this would have chaotic consequences for businesses.
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That happens anyway, with or without clock changes.

I used to work for a company which had offices in London and Derby. In London the average age was about 28, lots of people wanted to go out in the evenings, and typical hours were somewhere between 9-to-6 and 10-to-7. In Derby the average age was about 44, people wanted to get home to see their kids before bedtime, and typical hours were 8-to-4. There were only a few hours in the day - say around 10 to 12, and 2 to 4 - when it was possible to talk to a colleague in the other office.

Changing the clocks wouldn't make it better or worse.
 
It is a great excuse to go out and buy some new clocks and watches :p

Seriously though, yes there used to be a point. Times have changed, boom boom, I fail to see the point in the current day.
 
My kids were awake an hour early this morning cos a. that's what time they are used to waking up and b. its was light outside.
 
Changed my clocks over the weekend. Had no negative effect on me. The end.










...and now I realise im turning into @BRASH o_O
 
Nikon_Nick said:
Changed my clocks over the weekend. Had no negative effect on me. The end.










...and now I realise im turning into @BRASH o_O
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Not a bad thing to turn into but there can be only ONE!!
 
Almost afraid to mention it, but do you all change the time on your camera(s)? :exit:
 
My cameras all stay set to Zulu time whatever the season and wherever I am with them.
 
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