[Misc] Clocks going back

[Chicken Run]

Portugal who are on Western European Time which is the same time as us here in the UK tried aligning there time zone with Spain a few years back and they changed back, biggest problem was it was then still light at 11pm down there which messed with school age children going to bed!

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

It's OK saying clocks need to go back but I can't remember where I got mine from?

 

[Surrey Phil]

Can I make a sensible request. When the clocks go forward they do it at at 4pm on a Friday, so we can then just leave work! When they go back it’s great as it is, we all get an extra hour in bed on Sunday morning.

 

[Notters]

You really think the UK would be barred from making this change if they were outside the EU?

The EU government has plans to change it, the UK government does not. Simple as that.

 

[Notters]

At least the clock in my car (which I don't know how to adjust) will be correct again, for another 6 months.

Five (writes a pedant).

 

[Notters]

Portugal who are on Western European Time which is the same time as us here in the UK tried aligning there time zone with Spain a few years back and they changed back, biggest problem was it was then still light at 11pm down there which messed with school age children going to bed!

Spain is only on a different time zone to us because Franco wanted to show solidarity with Hitler, apparently.

 

[Chicken Run]

Spain is only on a different time zone to us because Franco wanted to show solidarity with Hitler, apparently.

Indeed, a lot of Spain is further West longitude wise that the UK so it’s no wonder even in the Summer it takes an age for the sun to rise in the morning.

 

[BensGrandad]

To put it into our laymens terms if you arrived at Cardiff for a 1230 kick off having not put your clock back you would have a long wait until kick off.

 

[Wilko]

I thought you were joking!

I was.

 

[jakarta]

Bloody awful time of Year, get up and go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. Roll on Spring...

 

[banjo]

 

[Winker]

just one hour.
That's nothing compared with
brexit - 1970s
ukip - 1930s
rees mogg - 1870s
donald trump - 1859
dup - 1690
boris johnson -1646 (he is prince rupert - defeated, banishment to the eu now...)
theresa may - 1066
daily mail - stone age
sun - protozoic age

eu - 1933

 

[The Clamp]

My 12.5 hour night shift turns into a 13.5 hour night shift

 

[Algernon]

There would always be a few lads from my Sunday league team (myself often included) at this time each year who would arrive at the "pick up" point early and have to wait an hour because they'd forgotten to adjust their clocks. Or were still drunk from the night before.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Why do you need to send it back? It's only off by 1 hour. Just remember in your head.

 

[Albion my Albion]

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That would seem to loom large in your personal life.

Good luck on getting what you wish for but you maybe unhappy because your partner is going to be unhappy.

 

[spongy]

I work 6am to 6pm shifts. Give it a fortnight and it won't matter anyway! Be dark each way to work and back.

I also have a 4 year old girl. So I shall be up at 5am tomorrow instead of 6am.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Last time I'll see daylight for six months. [emoji852]

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It was the invention of the electric light that screwed up people's alignment with 'natural' time. We used to go to bed when it got too dark to do anything, we got up when it was starting to get light because that was the window of opportunity we had. We only now stay up until 10-12 because electricity allows us to do more than candlelight could.

With you on the 24 hour clock though. Don't the Navy still use a 24 hour clock (ie a clock with hands but the hour hand only goes round once every 24-hr rather than twice) or have I imagined that?

Not when I was in. We had a clock with hands, but double numbered ie 1 also had 13 next to it. All signals were sent in 24 hour format.