Theres always one.......

[ChrisGaskin]

This time it was me

Woke up this morning to find id slept through my alarm and had 20 minutes to get to work, so, sounding like hugh grant at the start of 4 weddings, i manage to get sorted and speed into work, still swearing.

When i walk into work to take over from the night guy he starts laughing while i apologise for being late, he turns to me and says "you forgot to put your clock back didnt you mate" :bonk: i look at his clock and see its 4.30am, not the 5.30am i thought it was......:bang: oh well, at least i wasnt late after all

 

[Carl V]

Easily done. I only remembered myself just as I was getting into bed last night. Normally it's already on my mind the week before.

 

[NinetyEight]

...the clocks have changed?

 

[chameleon]

Some of them...

 

[russdaz]

All mine are automatic, otherwise i would forget to change them. Wasnt until i was talking to someone up the gym who just happened to say ' i wonder how many people here got here an hour early' that i relised the closcks had changed lol

 

[MartynK]

First time I've had to do this for about 30 years. Didn't they scrap this at some stage, in the 60s or early 70s, for a short period?

 

[Scarecrow]

It could have been worse; you could have put your clock forward instead of back, in which case you would have turned up for work 2 hours early.

 

[Carl V]

Didn't they scrap this at some stage, in the 60s or early 70s, for a short period?

I'm not 100% certain, but I think it was around 1967 or 68 when they tried an experiment for a couple of years whereby the clocks went forward as normal to BST in March, but never went back again to GMT in October.

Apparently, during the Second World War there was Double BST, where the clocks were 2 hours ahead in the summer and remained 1 hour ahead during the winter.

 

[MisterE]

The double summer time was around in the early 60s for a year at least. I remember as a kid being sent to bed at getting on for 10ish and it was still light.

 

[minimeeze]

This time it was me

Woke up this morning to find id slept through my alarm and had 20 minutes to get to work, so, sounding like hugh grant at the start of 4 weddings, i manage to get sorted and speed into work, still swearing.

When i walk into work to take over from the night guy he starts laughing while i apologise for being late, he turns to me and says "you forgot to put your clock back didnt you mate" :bonk: i look at his clock and see its 4.30am, not the 5.30am i thought it was......:bang: oh well, at least i wasnt late after all

I remember one year when I was young(er), my mum completely forgot about the clocks changing and sent us all to school an hour early :bonk::bonk:

 

[towershot]

I remember one year when I was young(er), my mum completely forgot about the clocks changing and sent us all to school an hour early :bonk::bonk:

Ah!!!!!!! that's why you are so smart, extra learning.

Or did he say smart arse with extra yerning...

 

[david1701]

if it makes you feel better I was sitting in the pub realised I was late for a lecture told the others and then got funny looks, I changed my alarm clock but not my watch

 

[MisterE]

I must be the laziest person for changing my clocks. Even now the kitchen and bathroom ones haven't been changed but I still remember to correct the time when I look at them. I'll get round to it within a week or so. My car clock never gets changed, so it's only right for 6 months of the year.