Clocks Go Back????

Spunog UIE

tonight or Sunday night?

Thought it was Sunday night myself, end of the month and all but have someone here trying to convince me otherwise.

billy the squid

They go back at 2am on Saturday night I think

Capt'n Midnight

spring forward / fall back or something ,
don't really care have one of dem radio clocks that sets its time automatically, ain't technology great

Dingatron

Goes back at 01:00 AM on Sunday according to the GMT website.

A Dub in Glasgo

Saturday night/Sunday morning

The clocks will always go forward and back on a Saturday night/Sunday morning

mike65

More to the point WHY do we insist on this daft ritual?

Mike.

Tiriel

it's a pity cos it'll be so dark in the evenings now.. walking home at 5pm it'll be like midnight!! :mad:

rainbow kirby

What's depressing as hell is going to your last lecture in the dark...

Spunog UIE

aye but that extra hour (for as long as you percieve it to be) is just great, no beating that durning the week, i'm sure there would be some days i'd be tempted to trade a few hours in the evening for a bit more in the morning when the cruel world is trying to pull me kicking and screaming from my warm cosy bed, safe from the evil traffic and ****ty weather, only OUT OF MY COLD DEAD HANDS will you get it, evil world...not a morning person durrrrrrrrrrrr.

rainbow kirby
Location: 127.0.0.1 <--- heh heh, gawd time to get rid of the peee ceee, must not laugh must run away and hide. Almost as pointless and amuzing as " my mammies tummy "

cournioni

Cool... This means more drinking time tomorrow night!

tuxy

mike65 wrote:

More to the point WHY do we insist on this daft ritual?

Mike.

ya id realy like to know
could someone in the know please explain it

sceptre

mike65 wrote:

More to the point WHY do we insist on this daft ritual?

It's those freemason milkmen I tells ya.

Bilderberg don't have to wire our houses when the milkmen already know all and see all. And lots more for the Pat Mustards out there

SantaHoe

Its farmers apparently.

Superman

I heard it used top be a two hour thing in the ol'days!

Pet

It's to make the mornings brighter, and thus safer for children walking to school, motorists, etc. It used to be two hours at one stage. Another year it was abolished, but that apparently led to much disarray. In the dead of winter it does help, because otherwise it wouldn't get bright until 9am..

Lady

surley it means it's darker in the morning if it goes back an hour....right?

A Dub in Glasgo

This morning, it was getting bright at 08:00, tomorrow morning it will be 07:00. As we head towards mid winter, it will begin to get brighter later in the mornings culminating in it getting bright after 08:00. If the clocks did not go back, i would be after 09:00.

Mayshine

Kids still walk to school??

I thought they are all ferried to school in large fleets of SUVs these days!!

No?

fintan

It has to do with farming before electrcity, gives the farmers brighter mornings. Totally outdated now though.

Capt'n Midnight

Aren't they phasing out Daylight saving time in the UK in a couple of years time...

mike65

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Aren't they phasing out Daylight saving time in the UK in a couple of years time...

Nearly every year this comes up. England and Wales say yes. Scotland and NI say no. I expect in the next few years there will be a split.

Mike.

Stark

Oh god I hope they abolish it, I can't stand when it gets dark at 4:30

AdMMM

I for one vote that we all evacuate our homes for an city deep under ground which is lighted artificially so there wil be no more arguments of this nature!

Stark

a city deep under ground which is lighted artificially

If those lights happen to be fluorescent then you've probably come up with a better definition of Hell than Dante himself.

Dub13

mike65 wrote:

Nearly every year this comes up. England and Wales say yes. Scotland and NI say no. I expect in the next few years there will be a split.

Mike.

Were would that leave us.....?

AdMMM

I dont think we are tied to the UK system, but we tag a long with it anyway

steveland?

mike65 wrote:

More to the point WHY do we insist on this daft ritual?

Mike.

Well some of us enjoy that extra hour in bed in the morning. Like that Carlsberg ad.

mike65

Where would that leave us? It would be interesting esp if NI kept the current system. Prolly end up keeping time with NI (and I dont mean turning the clocks back 300 years! ) for political reasons that make no sense.

Mike.

ando

damn clocks, grr I hate it when it gets so dark so early

Guvnor

Funny thing is the centre of time for the world which is grenwich has a nice big digital clock above the meridian line and it was an hour out by me, the reason they don't bother changing it! Waste of time nowadays adjusting watches, clocks etc.

NotMe

Guvnor wrote:

Funny thing is the centre of time for the world which is grenwich has a nice big digital clock above the meridian line and it was an hour out by me, the reason they don't bother changing it! Waste of time nowadays adjusting watches, clocks etc.

Yeah but Daylight Saving Time is actually GMT+1 so it would make sense for the clock in Greenwich to be "an hour out". (if that makes sense)

Also DST is too give us an extra hour of daylight in the evening during the Summer. When the clocks go back today they are returning to normal time.

Victor

Stark wrote:

Oh god I hope they abolish it, I can't stand when it gets dark at 4:30

Winter is the default.

Guvnor wrote:

Funny thing is the centre of time for the world which is grenwich has a nice big digital clock above the meridian line and it was an hour out by me, the reason they don't bother changing it! Waste of time nowadays adjusting watches, clocks etc.

Because that clock is GMT (never changes), not BST (changes twice a year).

Coconut

All you ever wanted to know, and then some:

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

Sarky

I'm working tonight. I doubt I'll get paid for the extra hour. I hate everyone about to go to bed at this time.

smoke.me.a.kipper

Coconut wrote:

All you ever wanted to know, and then some:

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

thank you. good site.

daveirl

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A Dub in Glasgo

An extra hour of daylight in the summer evenings when you would expect to have better weather conditions to enjoy the outdoors more. If we did not change, that extra hour of daylight would be in the very early morning when the majority of people are tucked up in bed.

daveirl

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Pet

Stark wrote:

If those lights happen to be fluorescent then you've probably come up with a better definition of Hell than Dante himself.

What is it about fluorescent light that's so annoying? I can never rationalise it to myself.

billy the squid

daveirl wrote:

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If we had winter time the whole year round the sun would be blasting in your window at 4am and it would start to get bright at 2:30 in the morning.

aidan_dunne

Personally, I like this time of year and don't mind the clocks going back. But, I agree, it seems a pretty pointless exercise in many ways these days and perhaps should be considered for scrapping.

Stark

What is it about fluorescent light that's so annoying? I can never rationalise it to myself.

The flicker. Gives the same effect as looking at a bad CRT screen.

DMC

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