Hour going forward? Tonight or tomorrow night?

Susannahmia

As the title says. I thought it was tomorrow night but someones told me its actually tonight.

TerrorFirmer

Tonight.

copacetic

It's tomorrow morning really, in an hour and a half.
It goes forward on the last sunday in March, which is tomorrow, but it goes forward at 1am so it seems like tonight, although it's tomorrow really. and so on.

Karoma

Technically, tomorrow morning.

Google would have given you the answer.

runswithascript

Where does this hour go, perhaps to some twilight zone parallel universe?

I protest.

Ghost Train

dusf wrote:

Where does this hour go, perhaps to some twilight zone parallel universe?

I protest.

well time isn't really a physical thing and doesn't really exist, it's all a big conspiracy

Thrill

Well, it's gone now. Bye bye hour.

Creamy Goodness

i totally forgot about this and looked at my watch at like 1:55 then like 10 minutes later it was 2:05. got a huge shock tbh.

runswithascript

Seriously I'm getting a petition together...

brianthebard

Do you even know why it happens dusf?

InFront

I don't really know actually.

I imagine we save energy by doing it, anybody know if there are any estimates on this?

If I were gravity/ time, I'd be quite annoyed with humans.

weeder

i dont, someone please tell me

zilog_jones

It's because of farmers. Feckin farmers stealing OUR hour! Grrrr.

ixoy

I'm awaiting to see if tomorrow's Sunday papers bring out the usual articles about the merits of using BST vs GMT and how using one is good for the likes of farmers and the daylight hours that it gives them whereas other is better for road safety (the mornings are now darker but the evenings are brighter for kids coming home). Conversely mornings can be darker using BST over GMT etc etc.

I visited Greenwich last year and it's kind of odd when you see the clock there being one hour "behind" what your watch would be set to. Despite GMT being an acknowledged worldwide standard to offset clocks from, it's only used half the year.

A wiki link for those who really care to read up on it.

runswithascript

Daylight savings. See The Earth orbits The Sun and...

Thrill

Why couldnt they wait until I was at work? I wouldnt mind an hour going missing then.

runswithascript

thrill wrote:

Why couldnt they wait until I was at work? I wouldnt mind an hour going missing then.

Here here!

rogue-entity

What always confused me is why the hour goes forwards during the summer, and its called Daylight Savings. Would it really make much of a difference during the summer if we didnt move the hour forward?

Edit: I just read that Wiki article, it explains it quite nicely.

PeakOutput

rogue-entity wrote:

What always confused me is why the hour goes forwards during the summer, and its called Daylight Savings. Why put the hour forward in the summer and call it DST when their is no need to "save" and hour in the summer. Would it really make much of a difference during the summer if we didnt move the hour forward?

because it increases the length of time daylight is at reasonable times ie it will get bright at 5in the morning instead of 4...........as far as i know this change is the change to get us back in line with gmt isnt it??? its the one in winter that knocks us off so that its bright when we wake up(i know they are not the official reasons but they are the reasons that affect me)

Mossy Monk

it is bollocks

Pherekydes

thrill wrote:

Why couldnt they wait until I was at work? I wouldnt mind an hour going missing then.

Back in the day (when I was in d'army) you'd be on guard duty, and we really did lose the hour.

Of course, the flip side was that we did guard duties on the 'other' weekend in October.

Ghost Train

it gives you an extra hour of light on the long summer evenings, sun goes down at nine instead of eight. It gets bright in the mornings before anyones up, so you don't miss the hour of sunlight they steal from the morning

Mossy Monk

it was pretty bright at 7 this morning but why does this phenomenon have to happen the Sunday i am working :mad:

so tired

honru

Hey, look on the bright side*. We're slowly coming up to summer now.

* = no intended pun.

philologos

brianthebard wrote:

Do you even know why it happens dusf?

It's something in relation to lighting. I think it's because the mornings are much brighter after a certain date and they want it to be like normal as opposed to being really bright at 6 / 7 am. I don't see much purpose in it myself.

Mossy Monk

i always assumed it was so the farmers get longer evenings

get up earlier pesky farmers

WindSock

dusf wrote:

Where does this hour go, perhaps to some twilight zone parallel universe?

I protest.

Our hour packs its little minute baggies and goes on holiday to various time zones around the world. Then returns to us sometime in October.

copacetic

Mossy Monk wrote:

i always assumed it was so the farmers get longer evenings

get up earlier pesky farmers

apparently the farmers have always been against it, it makes no difference to them as they work with the sun, they don't care what the clock says and it gives them less time to get to market etc with the hour gone. Originally it was a wartime thing to save energy. good article in the paper yesterday about it..

Brian Capture

imred wrote:

As the title says. I thought it was tomorrow night but someones told me its actually tonight.

:rolleyes:

It's been the same for as long as I've been alive.

It goes back in the autumn (last Saturday night / Sunday morning of October - at 2am)
and goes forward in the spring (last Saturday night / Sunday morning of March - at 1am)

How difficult is that to remember?

Or are you trying to cultivate an image of 'oh maaaaaaaaaaaan, I'm so hip and vague that I don't know when the clock goes forward. The only people that know that stuff are squares and anal nerds maaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn'.

WindSock

Brian Capture wrote:

It's been the same for as long as I've been alive.

It goes back in the autumn (last Saturday night / Sunday morning of October - at 2am)
and goes forward in the spring (last Saturday night / Sunday morning of March - at 1am)

How difficult is that to remember?

Handy rule of thumb-Springs forwards in spring, Falls back in fall*

*Fall Being autumn for non americans that have never watched an american film

Savman

Pfft DST. Just delaying the inevitable. We all die in the end

Daylight savings me arse. I want my hour back.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Brian Capture wrote:

:rolleyes:

It's been the same for as long as I've been alive.

It goes back in the autumn (last Saturday night / Sunday morning of October - at 2am)
and goes forward in the spring (last Saturday night / Sunday morning of March - at 1am)

How difficult is that to remember?

Or are you trying to cultivate an image of 'oh maaaaaaaaaaaan, I'm so hip and vague that I don't know when the clock goes forward. The only people that know that stuff are squares and anal nerds maaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn'.

yes, you are a square anal nerd.

congrats.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

billy connolly already tried that... didn't go too well

Call Me Jimmy

f®eak s&#169 wrote: »

Hey, look on the bright side*. We're slowly coming up to summer now.

* = no intended pun.

no intended pun? you were aware of the pun and didn't change it to an un-pun-ful phrase. WTF?????? like WTF

WindSock

Call Me Jimmy wrote:

no intended pun? you were aware of the pun and didn't change it to an un-pun-ful phrase. WTF?????? like WTF

But why change it to an unpun? wtf indeed, I love puns, intended or nae.

Savman

AH shud be renamed After Hours +1 just to avoid confusion

aidan_walsh

Savman wrote:

AH shud be renamed After Hours +1 just to avoid confusion

Until the digital television owners come along and wonder why everything is an hour delayed...

DeBeere

Completely forgot about the time change! I have been an hour ahead of everyone all day...I'm a rebel, I am!

WindSock

DeBeere wrote:

Completely forgot about the time change! I have been an hour ahead of everyone all day...I'm a rebel, I am!

Hour behind you mean whats it like livin in the past?

Savman

Stone cold groove I'd imagine

Lust4Life

At the risk of being called a square anal nerd, Daylight Savings was started because Benjamin Franklin started up a petition to do so in an effort to save on candles as it would remain light longer in the evenings.
Damn him!

Dave!

Brian Capture wrote:

:rolleyes:

It's been the same for as long as I've been alive.

It goes back in the autumn (last Saturday night / Sunday morning of October - at 2am)
and goes forward in the spring (last Saturday night / Sunday morning of March - at 1am)

How difficult is that to remember?

Or are you trying to cultivate an image of 'oh maaaaaaaaaaaan, I'm so hip and vague that I don't know when the clock goes forward. The only people that know that stuff are squares and anal nerds maaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn'.

*yawn*

You're boring.

Is it just my imagination or is it darker this morning than before the clocks went forward?

Xavi6

So what time is it in Dublin now? We went back an hour in Perth yesterday closing the time difference from 9 hours to 8. If you lost an hour then the gap should now be 7? God I'm confused.

Pherekydes

Xavi6 wrote:

So what time is it in Dublin now? We went back an hour in Perth yesterday closing the time difference from 9 hours to 8. If you lost an hour then the gap should now be 7? God I'm confused.

The clocks changed on the same day: We went forward an hour, ye went back an hour. The difference is now 7 hours.

It is usually the case that there is a two-hour shift between northern and southern hemispheres.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

TerrorFirmer

DeBeere wrote:

Completely forgot about the time change! I have been an hour ahead of everyone all day...I'm a rebel, I am!

Behind, actually...

Mossy Monk

DaveMcG wrote:

Is it just my imagination or is it darker this morning than before the clocks went forward?

of course it will be darker in the morning

the light at 7am this morning would be similar to the light at 6am friday morning