General Chat

Is it this weekend that we lose an hour in bed, I think it is, I just hope the weather gets better soon.

Yes Natalie, it is the start of British Summer Time this Sunday, here's hoping for a long hot summer! Tricia

Yes it's this weekend and what a pointless exercise it is.

Goodie!!!!! does that mean that freebmd will be less busy at 0230? LOL

Totally agree with the pointless exercise comment. This was a wartime temporary measure: First World War I believe - and we are still doing it decades on! When it started most families had only one clock in the house: no electronic equipment to worry about. Next weekend we will have to make a 40 mile special round trip to mother-in-law's to change her clocks/central heating etc. Bang goes any theoretical environmental saving! Next week it will be colder, darker and more slippery in the mornings. Take care.

Brian, didn't they try in the 60s to leave the clocks alone and it didn't work? Also i live in Scotland and i have been told, that in the winter it gets much lighter, quicker "down south" so if they didn't change the clocks we would be in darkness until 10 or 11 a.m. Please spare a thought for us! Tricia

Brian, try working for an IT company then, we have literally hundreds of servers where the clocks will change - most automatically in fairness - but some don't so have to be treated as special cases.. some need applications shutting down during the change... etc etc etc... Nightmare Paul

Our friend collects clocks, He has about 20 in all. I know that hubby will be busy changing them for him next week ! LOL ! ;-)) Elaine x

>>>>>> and for two days after the event, we keep on saying.... "Its two o'clock...but it's really ONE o'clock ! " LOLOLOL ! Elaine x

I've only got one clock downstairs (which I rarely look at), plus the alarm clock upstairs and of course my watch, so I will be able to change these in no time at all!!

Trish what about the clocks in the t.v. if you don't change them and set the video to tape something by time, it will record the wrong thing Tricia

Tricia Yes, they did try it in the 60s and it didn't work because they kept summer time through the winter rather than GMT through the summer. GMT is the natural time zone for this longitude: using summer time in the winter puts us on Continental time which is designed for Germany, Italy, Poland, etc. which are hundreds of miles east and therefore get an earlier sunrise. In my opinion the experiment was designed to fail.

Thanks for that Brian, you are obviously older than me as you know so much more about it than me (hee hee), i was only a young child in the late 60s. and i agree with what you said . Tricia

As a matter of interest, the man who introduced daylight saving was a William Willett, who lived on a big estate near Chislehurst in Kent. A memorial to him can be found in woods near here where I live; Petts Wood (near Orpington, Kent). There is even a pub named in his honour; The Daylight Inn. Although we get an hour's less sleep, it does mean my children wake up later, for about a week!! Sadly, in October this has the opposite effect. LOL

Re European time, THEY also put the clocks forward the same weekend. Re Scotland, they are after home rule, separation or whatever - let them have their own time zone! ;o)

Geoff... a bit harsh on the Scots no? We don't all want separation Tricia

I always think about which way the clocks go, is, TOWARDS SUMMER, forward in spring, backwards in winter..... Ps if you have a chiming clock, you should STOP it for an hour....in winter ...Bob

I work in a sheltered housing scheme with elderly people and changing the clocks confuses some of them everytime! Maggy

I am glad that I don't have to many clocks to change at home, but some of you have loads, being collectors of clocks lol

I think my mother told me that during WW2 there was double BST. So 1 hour doesn't seem so bad now. Pat