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And that's 1 hour forward, not like the weather girl on R2 the other day said "back" :D

As for me, the only good thing about putting them forward is the hour I get back, in October, when they revert to GMT (y)
 
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Hour less....hour more. ...I'll only get around four :(
 
I wish they'd just leave em alone & stop all this `changing`......it's a right f00kin ballache! :mad:

The kid's clocks will get changed in the morning, AFTER getting up an hour late :D
 
The majority of clocks and watches here are radio controlled so do it themselves. The others got done last night with the couple of escapees getting caught up with through the day (usually the cars!) Why we still have to do all this instead of simply altering working/school hours is beyond me.
 
Nod said:
Why we still have to do all this instead of simply altering working/school hours is beyond me.
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Just leave the damned things alone the "traditional reasons" for altering them are old hat now and have no baring on the modern way of life.
 
Now the deed has been done, we just gotta wait for the actual weather to catch up with the idea of "British Summer Time". However, it is going to stay changeable and windy for the next couple or three days before high pressure start to form over us over the Easter Holiday weekend hopefully to settle things down by then. But I fancy that it'll end up tending to be cool and cloudy with occasional bright spells with a risk of frost by night rather than the eagerly awaiting warm and sunny weather.

Oh well, at least us going onto BST will now make it easier for us to see how carp our weather is in the evenings.
 
Ian D J said:
it is going to stay changeable and windy for the next couple or three days before high pressure start to form over us
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Its certainly baby weather here today, Ian!
(Wet and windy :D)
 
Ian D J said:
Hi Chris! Enough to make a grown man cry, that's for sure.
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That too Ian!
I was hoping to do a little more in the garden today, but I think that's out of the question now :(
 
@Kinorrid here ATM. Blowy and moist... At least it's not cold though!
 
OldCarlos said:
I wish they'd just leave em alone & stop all this `changing`......it's a right f00kin ballache! :mad:

The kid's clocks will get changed in the morning, AFTER getting up an hour late :D
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We tried that, normal wakup time is 06:15. Today in new time, 05:21, despite deliberatly not setting the sun clock thing.
 
Kids are on school hols now, so still haven't changed their bedroom clock.............MIGHT get an extra hour in bed tomorrow. ;)
 
We had one child go to bed as normal but he's been super grumpy so may be coming down with something. His 20 month old sister refused her bed and stayed up for an extra hour.
 
I think if one of the political parties announced they were going to scrap all this clocks back and forward they'd get in straight away. It really is pointless. But leave it on summertime (GMT +1) in perpetuity I say.
 
DorsetDude said:
I think if one of the political parties announced they were going to scrap all this clocks back and forward they'd get in straight away. It really is pointless. But leave it on summertime (GMT +1) in perpetuity I say.
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That was tried in the late 60s-early 70s and it didn't work out very well, British Standard Time.
 
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DorsetDude said:
I think if one of the political parties announced they were going to scrap all this clocks back and forward they'd get in straight away. It really is pointless. But leave it on summertime (GMT +1) in perpetuity I say.
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Come on UKIP :D
 
It is a pointless exercise without benefit for the vast majority of us. And one wall clock and our inbuilt steam oven are a right nightmare to change the time on.
 
HuntingMartians said:
have never understood this hatred of changing the time.
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It not exactly hatred, but can you imagine the out-cry if that was introduced today instead of 1916.
As I said above it has no place in today modern society.
If that last paragraph is correct, then actually we are two hours forward, not one.
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BST was first established by the Summer Time Act in 1916, after a campaign by a builder called William Willett.
He was reportedly irritated with the "waste" of daylight in the early mornings of summer - and suggested the change in 1907, publishing a pamphlet called The Waste of Daylight.

In 1916, one year after Willett's death, BST began on 21st May and ended on 1st October.

In 1940, during the Second World War, clocks across Britain were not put back an hour at the end of Summer Time in a bid to save fuel and money.
In subsequent years, clocks continued to be advanced by one hour each spring and put back by an hour each autumn until July 1945.
 
Easy enough to check - simply find the prime meridian and check to see if the Sun's due south at noon GMT.

Don't particularly hate the change, like Chris I just feel that it's a total waste of time in this day and age.
 
Can somebody explain to me clearly how changing the clocks actually helps anybody? Or ever has?

On the 28th of March, sunrise here was 5:41 and sunset was 6:21 pm. Next day we changed the clocks. On 25th April (pretty much 4 weeks later) sunrise will be 5:41 and sunset 8:08pm.

I really don't get it.
 
viv1969 said:
Knock yourself out....

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time
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That's my problem.

It has the usual stuff about a builder wanting it (though for no obvious reasons), then all the tedious history, then an explanation of why it's a bad idea (because roadkill including children) and some comic swipes at people who want to do away with it. But no real explanation of why we have (or have ever had) it. I'm beginning to think nobody knows.....
 
JonathanRyan said:
That's my problem.

It has the usual stuff about a builder wanting it (though for no obvious reasons), then all the tedious history, then an explanation of why it's a bad idea (because roadkill including children) and some comic swipes at people who want to do away with it. But no real explanation of why we have (or have ever had) it. I'm beginning to think nobody knows.....
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Oh I'm sure someone will be along.

The vast majority of the world do it.
Is it useful? Probably not.
But is it hard and does it really matter? Also no.

The usual complaining about it takes far longer to be honest :-)
 
JonathanRyan said:
Spoken like somebody who wasn't working until 4am on Sunday and then had to get up at 8 for an appointment ;) The missing hour really hurt :D
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How long for? :-)
 
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