Polite reminder , clocks go forward this Sunday.

[standardpostage]

Clocks go forward one hour this Sunday.

Don't be late for anything important / urgent   

[The0neAnd0nly]

Thank fuck, really felt like the first day of spring today with a sunny and practically tropical 13 degrees!

Cant wait for them long summer nights in a beer garden!! 

[mr.bluesky]

Clocks go forward one hour this Sunday.

Don't be late for anything important / urgent   

Oh no we've lost an hour lie in on sunday morning  Don't understand why we bother changing the clocks now why don't we just stay on Greenwich mean time 

[Straightsix]

Fantastic news 👍

Cheers.

[David1970]

Oh no we've lost an hour lie in on sunday morning  Don't understand why we bother changing the clocks now why don't we just stay on Greenwich mean time 

+1 Don't understand why we change the clocks, makes no real sense IMHO

[Blackpool Rock]

Oh no we've lost an hour lie in on sunday morning  Don't understand why we bother changing the clocks now why don't we just stay on Greenwich mean time 

I'd actually rather stay on BST all year round as it means the nights are lighter 

[David1970]

I'd actually rather stay on BST all year round as it means the nights are lighter 

+1

[Fac51]

Will the escorts remember though ? 

[The0neAnd0nly]

Will the escorts remember though ? 

I can just imagine a Rom saying a punt has lasted a hour and 1 minute when its only been a minute and trying to get away with it 

[winkywanky]

Oh no we've lost an hour lie in on sunday morning  Don't understand why we bother changing the clocks now why don't we just stay on Greenwich mean time 

For the sake of one 'lost' hour on one morning, you get a whole summer with longer days to enjoy. Stop complaining   

[mr.bluesky]

For the sake of one 'lost' hour on one morning, you get a whole summer with longer days to enjoy. Stop complaining   

Knowing our summers longer days of rain.

[Xtro]

ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban forgot to put their fucking clocks forward by about fourteen hundred years.   

[winkywanky]

ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban forgot to put their fucking clocks forward by about fourteen hundred years.   

Ah, those wonderful, halcyon, simple Medieval days, where if you didn't 'fit in' they simply lopped off your head and disembowelled you (in no particular order).

[nwluvit]

My dear friends, time moves forward every day except on Oct 31st when it goes back 1 hour

[Horizontal pleasures]

Oh no we've lost an hour lie in on sunday morning  Don't understand why we bother changing the clocks now why don't we just stay on Greenwich mean time 

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[SierraBravo]

Dont forget the clocks go forward this weekend.

You don't want to be late getting up to sit on your settee all day.

[Horizontal pleasures]

My dear friends, time moves forward every day except on Oct 31st when it goes back 1 hour

Spring Forwards
Fall Backwards

[WASA38]

Spring Forwards
Fall Backwards

No; it's 'spring forward,fall back'. Google it. Makes sense.

[donnybob]

Many years ago I had a deli and we only opened for 2 hours on a sunday picking up all the business from the traffic to the newsagents next door

the only member of staff in with me actually turned up just as we were closing, her excuse?...... sorry I put my clocks back one hour rather than forward

[The0neAnd0nly]

Many years ago I had a deli and we only opened for 2 hours on a sunday picking up all the business from the traffic to the newsagents next door

the only member of staff in with me actually turned up just as we were closing, her excuse?...... sorry I put my clocks back one hour rather than forward

My head hurts so bad trying to work out the logistics of whether that could be deemed a genuine excuse or not.

Did she get the (ball) sack?

[Lou2019]

Spring Forwards
Fall Backwards

 

[Londonpunter30]

I believe the change helps the farmers.  Seems not many on here do that occupation, but I do consume their produce, so if changing helps them out I’m all for it

[Blackpool Rock]

I believe the change helps the farmers.  Seems not many on here do that occupation, but I do consume their produce, so if changing helps them out I’m all for it

I was always told it was for farmers in the war, this article doesn't specifically mention farmers but it does look to have been led by the war effort for WW1

WW2 saw the clocks change by 2 hours not 1, never knew that or that from 1968-71 we did a permanent change to BST then scrapped the idea.

I also didn't know that it had been proposed again and debated in Parliament in 2010, the "Single/double summer time" is what i've always said we should adopt where we have permanent BST but then change an extra hour in the summer 

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[Malvolio]

Not sure why we bother - if you want more daylight, get up earlier.

[standardpostage]

Not sure why we bother - if you want more daylight, get up earlier.

[snaitram99]

I also didn't know that it had been proposed again and debated in Parliament in 2010, the "Single/double summer time" is what i've always said we should adopt where we have permanent BST but then change an extra hour in the summer 

Why? 

The total amount of daylight stays the same whatever time you want to pretend it is.

[Name Not Found]

I was always told it was for farmers in the war,

Don't know about you, but I've never seen a cow with a watch on     Changing the clock for the benefit of farmers was always a ridiculous argument.

[Blackpool Rock]

Don't know about you, but I've never seen a cow with a watch on     Changing the clock for the benefit of farmers was always a ridiculous argument.

Why? 

The total amount of daylight stays the same whatever time you want to pretend it is.

Well yes as a kid I could never understand why to make use of the daylight hours they simply didn't adjust start times of things but you get these situations where people can't comprehend the market opening at 8.00 instead of 9.00 as it's always opened at 9.00 so the only way people will do it is by changing the official time 

[winkywanky]

I guess the basic thing is this:

You need everyone having the same point of reference/doing the same thing at the same point in time, whether that be for leisure or work/business purposes. It's a society, most of us need to have the same frame of reference, we need to be synchronised (that's why we have clocks and watches in the first place).

If it's decided for various reasons to 'shift that frame' to better utilise daylight hours then you have a choice of two things: you either change the time at which you 'do' everything (complicated) or you simply shift the clock (relatively easy, because the time everything happens stays the same, the time you start work, school, etc).

Factor in the desire to have other countries doing the same thing because of our dealings with them, then changing the clocks twice a year is the best way to do it.

[Name Not Found]

Factor in the desire to have other countries doing the same thing because of our dealings with them, then changing the clocks twice a year is the best way to do it.

That might make some sense if all countries changed their clocks at the same time, which they don't, so it doesn't 

Also, there are few, if any, things that must be done at a certain point of daylight, so there's really not much of a rationale for it at all.

[petermisc]

Also, there are few, if any, things that must be done at a certain point of daylight

Agreed, but there is a need to synchronise things.  While teaching can in theory be done at any time of day, it won't work if all the children have their own individual start times, for example.  There is less need to synchronise things now that very few people work on manufacturing production-lines any more, and so flexible working hours are becoming ever more commonplace.  However, schools are the one main area where it is necessary to have synchronised start and finish times.  And I understood that there are far less accidents if children go to and from school in the light, compared to in the dark.

[winkywanky]

That might make some sense if all countries changed their clocks at the same time, which they don't, so it doesn't 

Also, there are few, if any, things that must be done at a certain point of daylight, so there's really not much of a rationale for it at all.

Most of our European neighbours do? And even if they don't do it at the same time I think they all change at some point, and in the same direction.

That's a side issue though, we need to be synchronised on our own shores and the majority of people here like changing the clocks. No rationale for it? Going to work, going to school, all the other appointments in our lives which are defined by those as well? Stuff falls apart pretty quickly when we don't all have the same point of reference.

[Name Not Found]

That's a side issue though, we need to be synchronised on our own shores and the majority of people here like changing the clocks. No rationale for it? Going to work, going to school, all the other appointments in our lives which are defined by those as well? Stuff falls apart pretty quickly when we don't all have the same point of reference.

I'm not sure I get your point. We can easily maintain the same 'frame of reference' without changing the national value of the time.

[winkywanky]

I'm not sure I get your point. We can easily maintain the same 'frame of reference' without changing the national value of the time.

You would rather change the time you turn up for work, go to school etc, than change the clocks?

[Xtro]

I love it when the clocks go forward.

It means when I'm having sex, I last for 1 hour and 30 seconds!   

Also, I can start eating after eights an hour early.   

[Name Not Found]

You would rather change the time you turn up for work, go to school etc, than change the clocks?

You're missing the point. There is not need to change the time, of anything!

[daviemac]

 Benjamin Franklin first thought of it to save candles but blame Coldplay for it being introduced in this country, well it's Chris Martin's ancestors really.   

[Blackpool Rock]

Agreed, but there is a need to synchronise things.  While teaching can in theory be done at any time of day, it won't work if all the children have their own individual start times, for example.  There is less need to synchronise things now that very few people work on manufacturing production-lines any more, and so flexible working hours are becoming ever more commonplace.  However, schools are the one main area where it is necessary to have synchronised start and finish times.  And I understood that there are far less accidents if children go to and from school in the light, compared to in the dark.

Your 1st point doesn't account for "Art" students though as they turn up any time they want or often not at all 

In terms of accidents the previous experiments showed that there was a reduction of accidents when kids went to school in the light and an increase in the dark so it basically just shifted the problem to a different time of the day

[catweazle]

I guess the basic thing is this:

You need everyone having the same point of reference/doing the same thing at the same point in time, whether that be for leisure or work/business purposes. It's a society, most of us need to have the same frame of reference, we need to be synchronised (that's why we have clocks and watches in the first place).

This dates back to the early 19th century, when the railways where getting their act together.  Most places used the sun to determine what the "local" time was ( so it's noon when the sun is overhead).

Once trains started running from city to city, especially west to east, this caused problems with timetabling, as noon is Exeter wasn't concurrent with noon in London.

So that was when the idea of GMT was born; when it's noon in Greenwich, it's (clock) noon everywhere, even if in Cornwall it's not yet noon

Once they found they could have a country wide standard time, daylight saving clock shifting followed on.

[winkywanky]

You're missing the point. There is not need to change the time, of anything!

Well that's a separate issue entirely, you either believe in shifting the timescale at the equinoxes or you don't.

Tha vast majority of society likes it so I can't see it changing any time soon.

[winkywanky]

This dates back to the early 19th century, when the railways where getting their act together.  Most places used the sun to determine what the "local" time was ( so it's noon when the sun is overhead).

Once trains started running from city to city, especially west to east, this caused problems with timetabling, as noon is Exeter wasn't concurrent with noon in London.

So that was when the idea of GMT was born; when it's noon in Greenwich, it's (clock) noon everywhere, even if in Cornwall it's not yet noon

Once they found they could have a country wide standard time, daylight saving clock shifting followed on.

I saw that edition of Horizon too   

[Name Not Found]

Tha vast majority of society likes it ...

I beg to differ. Al the surveys of public opinion that I've seen do not show that.

[winkywanky]

I beg to differ. Al the surveys of public opinion that I've seen do not show that.

Wouldn't mind seeing a link?

[Blackpool Rock]

Wouldn't mind seeing a link?

Me too but i'm not holding my breath

[Buenos2006]

I can just imagine a Rom saying a punt has lasted a hour and 1 minute when its only been a minute and trying to get away with it 

Haha! Yep and if that happened to me I’d book her again in October when the clocks go back and claim 2 hours for the price of 1 

[The0neAnd0nly]

Haha! Yep and if that happened to me I’d book her again in October when the clocks go back and claim 2 hours for the price of 1 

We're all living in 2021... and you're in 2051 my friend!! 

[tynetunnel]

Ah bollocks, wish I’d seen this thread two weeks ago!

[Blackpool Rock]

Ah bollocks, wish I’d seen this thread two weeks ago!

What before you were sacked for poor time keeping 

[tynetunnel]

What before you were sacked for poor time keeping 

Yep, I’ve been late every day this past fortnight!