Clocks go foward/backwards: Complete mind phuck

Binomate

Tonight at some time the clocks are meant to go backwards or forwards or some sideways or something. End result is that I gain or lose an hour of sleep since I have to be up at some time in the morning for work.


What's the dealio? If I have to be up and in work at 9, using the time we're using now at this very point in time before the time change, what time do I have to get up at?

I can never do this.


Edit: I get an extra hour of sleep, right?

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Binomate wrote: »

Tonight at some time the clocks are meant to go backwards or forwards or some sideways or something. End result is that I gain or lose an hour of sleep since I have to be up at some time in the morning for work.

Clocks go back one hour at 2am.

Binomate wrote: »

What's the dealio? If I have to be up and in work at 9, using the time we're using now at this very point in time before the time change, what time do i have to get up at?.

Depends on how long it takes you to get to work.

You will have a extra hour in bed.

If you usually get up at 8 to be in work for nine, then set your alarm for nine in the morning.

But don't change your clock.

Binomate wrote: »

I can never do this.

You can now.

JohnnyStones

Binomate wrote: »

Tonight at some time the clocks are meant to go backwards or forwards or some sideways or something. End result is that I gain or lose an hour of sleep since I have to be up at some time in the morning for work.


What's the dealio? If I have to be up and in work at 9, using the time we're using now at this very point in time before the time change, what time do I have to get up at?

I can never do this.


Edit: I get an extra hour of sleep, right?

YES an extra hour of beauty sleep:)

Binomate

Lovely. Thanks for the info.

Esel

Binomate wrote:

If I have to be up and in work at 9, using the time we're using now at this very point in time before the time change, what time do I have to get up at?

Impossible to tell what time you need to get up at, as it depends on too many variables. However, if you don't change your clock, you will have to get up one hour later than you normally would.

AlmightyCushion

The clocks go inside out tonight.

Zaph

I thought it was upside down?

Creamy Goodness

Spring forward,
Fall back.

Karoma

Why do we have to do this?! I'M NO MATHEMATICIAN OR PHYSICIST!!! THIS IS MADNESSSS!
It's the Jewish Communist lizard farmer conspiracy, isn't it?!

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Karoma wrote: »

Why do we have to do this?! I'M NO MATHEMATICIAN OR PHYSICIST!!! THIS IS MADNESSSS!
It's the Jewish Communist lizard farmer conspiracy, isn't it?!

I like it tbh.

It means it's not as dark when getting up for work in the mornings.

But, then it means it's dark at half four when going home. But I'm ok with that.

Karoma

DesF wrote: »

I like it tbh.

It means it's not as dark when getting up for work in the mornings.

But, then it means it's dark at half four when going home. But I'm ok with that.

Bah! It confuses people like Binomate. This is not on. I say down with this daylight savigs thingymajig and down with packets of nuts that don't warn you with a 'May contain nuts' notice. It's making life hard for people like Binomate, damnit.

WindSock

Yeah handy rule of thumb that, spring forward in spring, fall back in fall. I remember a thread not unlike this one when they went forwards earlier in the year. I like the dark, me

projectmayhem

Karoma wrote: »

Why do we have to do this?! I'M NO MATHEMATICIAN OR PHYSICIST!!! THIS IS MADNESSSS!

go to the pub. an hour extra drinking time!

FOR SPARTA!

Binomate

Ok, so I get an extra hour in bed. I use my phone as my alarm. I have it set to go off at 8:00 so I can get up and be in work for 9:00. It is now 20:45, and I have just set the clock on my phone to 19:45, which means my nothing else is changed, I should be in on time for work.


My next problem is that I don't know if my phone will calibrate the time to the daylight savings time automatically or not and I don't have the documentation for the phone so I can't tell from the manual. So as it stands, I have a 50% chance of being on time for work, since it either does or it doesn't.

Maybe if I change it back to the true time now before the change, and set my alarm to go off normally, if it doesn't automatically adjust itself, then I get up an hour too early. If it does adjust itself, then i get the extra hour in bed and arrive on time. That's my best bet for getting in to work on time, right?

Sofaspud

Karoma wrote: »

THIS IS MADNESSSS!

MADNESS?

THIS
IS
SOLSTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!

*kicks*

robinph

Cremo wrote: »

Spring forward,
Fall back.

Spring forward, autumn back I think you mean.

Pigman II

My fellow Boarders. As a young boy, I dreamed of being an atomic clock, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Creamy Goodness

robinph wrote: »

Spring forward, autumn back I think you mean.

yes but it thought making it into a little rhyme would make it easier to memorise.

mikemac

Oh to be a barman in a nightclub again.
And trying to explain to people that clocks going back does not mean we leave the bar open for one extra hour.:mad:

projectmayhem

micmclo wrote: »

Oh to be a barman in a nightclub again.
And trying to explain to people that clocks going back does not mean we leave the bar open for one extra hour.:mad:

what? but time went backwards! give me mah drinkz!

Sofaspud

Sofaspud wrote: »

MADNESS?

THIS
IS
SOLSTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!

*kicks*

I loves it!:L