Clocks back or forward?

Black_Couch

Clocks back or forward tonight?

Creamy Goodness

forward

Mimikyu

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Dave!

Spring forward, Fall back

sturgo

They go sideways.

Aporia

Wai Wai Wait so what time is it actually now??
Half 12 yeah? I'm not sure if my computer updated it for me and there's a lack of clocks/phones/watches ect. in this room .

Black_Couch

Cheers Lads.

tabatha

i always remember it from the saying that they spring forward in spring and fall back in fall (autumn)

kaimera

foward at 1.00am, so in 22min it'll be 2.00am GMT.

tabatha

no, forward at 2am isnt it?

Skyuser

I think it's always 1am times change

tabatha

im just having a blonde moment

Mossy Monk

1am it is, not that makes a difference

Alfasudcrazy

Its great when you are working though - you get paid for 8 hours but only work 7.

radiospan

Oh no it's 2 o'clock all of a sudden.

MrJoeSoap

Agh! Travelling through time again! Boards clock is a bit weird is it not?

tabatha

just noticed my computer clock has jumped to 2.00am

Creamy Goodness

don't forget to change your GMT settings in control panel, should sticky this thread as the amount of thread we will get here along the lines of "Omgz boards clock is broken" will be unreal, happens everytime

MrJoeSoap

Boards seems to have gone back an hour rather than forward, am I right?

raheny red

tabatha wrote:

just noticed my computer clock has jumped to 2.00am

Same here!

How does it know?

I'm scared

kaimera

thought the clock was off anyway?

raheny red

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Boards seems to have gone back an hour rather than forward, am I right?

Yep

MrJoeSoap

Fixed now by the looks of it anyway.

Time Magazine

Go to your Control Panel (bottom left of box that says Welcome, <username>).

On the left click Edit Options.

Scroll down to Date and Time Options, about 2/3 of the way down.

Select GMT as your timezone and 'DST corrections always on' in the drop down.

Save.

Wallah, boards shows the right times.

Mimikyu

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jimmycrackcorm

Better just post a message to see if the server time matches my computer

Mimikyu

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blu_sonic

why does this happen? why does the clocks h=go forward and then back? i see daylight saving and hence "daylight savings time" but whats the point? it steals an hour from the morning and vica versa

drdre

i donot know whats going on. on my laptop it says 4.43 but i donot know what the real time is as on my phone it says3.42 and i did not change anything.:rolleyes: can anyone help me

allnight_2002

drdre you laptop automatically updated the time @ 1 am. The time now is 4:46

pwee

your computer has a built in calendar and changes time as a result. so comp time is correct:D

drdre

thanks guys. i was just thinking whats going on:D and was confused until i found this thread.

drdre

what are we guys doing up this late:D

blu_sonic

no lives? geeks? boards addicts?

Lump

Spring Forward, Fall Back TBH!

John

raheny red

I was watching the athletics last night on BBC and the commentor stated that Aussie land are posponing putting the clock forward till next week!

Anyone know anything about this - why??

tba

Why dont we just put it half an hour forward and leave it like that?

Would save a whole lot of confusion.

gerire

raheny red wrote:

I was watching the athletics last night on BBC and the commentor stated that Aussie land are posponing putting the clock forward till next week!

Anyone know anything about this - why??

IIRC

Clocks go back at this time of year over there. When we were there last October there was a 2 hour time swing when they went forward in Oz but back up here for winter time.

Confused Yet?

iguana

The idea behind the clocks going forward in summer time was first concieved in order to give working class Britons a better quality of life. It first became policy during world war one.

From then up until 1972 Britain (and I assume Ireland) operated on GMT+1hour in the winter and GMT+2hours in the summer. Meaning that the hours we have as summertime now were the winter time hours and the summer was another hour ahead of current summertime.

Personally I wish they'd go back to that system as in the last 4 years I have moved from Limerick to Dublin, and then to London and each move has shaved around 20-25 minutes of daylight off my evenings and I want it back!:mad:

Flukey

Today is the shortest day of the year.

dundalk cailin

After reading this thread,hadnt realised the clocks went forward last night, i waited 20mins on a bus that wasnt coming (it runs at 2pm, not 3).;now i understand!!

**Timbuk2**

I'm still missing that hour lost of sleep last night :mad:

blu_sonic

Lump wrote:

Spring Forward, Fall Back TBH!

John

lol my mam says that, it the only way shes knows to add or remove an hour lol

The OP

DaveMcG wrote:

Spring forward, Fall back

That's a stupid way to remember it, because Spring back and Fall forward also makes sense.

blu_sonic

its just a ryhming thing to help remember, like the one about the months,

The OP

blu_sonic wrote:

its just a ryhming thing to help remember, like the one about the months,

??? But it doesn't rhyme. And saying it the exact opposite way makes exactly the same amount of sense. My point being, it's a dumb way of remembering it.

blu_sonic

ok its a saying, a sayimg that helps people, why is it dumb? because it doesn't make sence to you? that doesn't make it dumb, if some people want to use it let them

projectmayhem

my computer does all the work for me. i wake up and ZOMG the clocks have changed

The OP

blu_sonic wrote:

ok its a saying, a sayimg that helps people, why is it dumb? because it doesn't make sence to you? that doesn't make it dumb, if some people want to use it let them

It's dumb, because if you say it the EXACT opposite way: i.e. Spring Back, Fall Forward, - that phrase still makes sense, but it doesn't help you remember which way the clocks go, because it's wrong. I've explained it 3 times now (a simple concept, disected as much as possible) - so if you don't understand now, there's little hope...

blu_sonic

but to some people it makes sence because its embedded into their psyche they know the saying, there are saying for everything to help remember. You think its dumb ok fair enough i don't if you don't understand it well then there is little hope...

The OP

blu_sonic wrote:

but to some people it makes sence because its embedded into their psyche they know the saying, there are saying for everything to help remember. You think its dumb ok fair enough i don't if you don't understand it well then there is little hope...

Again, but in coherent English please. Try pasting your post into MS WORD, then hit F7. Then paste it back in here when done. Thanks. Appreciated. I'll reply to your point when I can understand it.