Confused with the clocks going back...

sallysaucer101 · 31-10-2010 6:54am #1

For the second year running I have gotten it wrong with the clocks going back and am in work an hour early...

Seriously....who's stupid idea was it anyway!!

Wouldn't mind only I finished work at 11.30 pm last night...20 min drive home..asleep by 12.30am then up at what I though was 6am to be in work for 7.30am only to arrive in the door and be told its only 6.30am!!

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

racso1975 · 31-10-2010 6:57am

I think you, my friend, are the stupid one

Black Swan · 31-10-2010 7:17am

Back to the future! (Fall back, Spring forward)

Star Lord · 31-10-2010 7:21am

Let's do the TimeWarp again...

Black Swan · 31-10-2010 7:22am

Dances with the closest Teddy Bare (or dances in my teddy... I get fused when it's late)

efb · 31-10-2010 7:37am

If I could turn back time, if I could find a way...

jezko · 31-10-2010 8:02am

Boards.ie could also change the time :-)

You just did :-)

Firehen · 31-10-2010 9:31am

It got me as well. Was up and ready to come into work an hour early.

Luckily, I turned on the laptop to check my emails, and lo and behold, I'd gone back in time.

Had I remembered the clocks were going back, I may have been tempted to head out last night and take advantage of the extra hour in bed

Alice1 · 31-10-2010 9:42am

Yes, another one here! I set my alarm clock for 8am - but was woken by the radio presenter saying "Good morning, here is the news at 7" in that very cheery voice that all the early morning presenters use....

phill106 · 31-10-2010 10:03am

Fool me once, shame on you
Fool me twice....

xzanti · 31-10-2010 10:04am

The channel surfing strip thingy on UPC is still showing at yesterday's time

Make it ssssssssssstop :eek:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

havana · 31-10-2010 10:09am

xzanti wrote: »

The channel surfing strip thingy on UPC is still showing at yesterday's time

Make it ssssssssssstop :eek:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know so confusing- but the programmes are correct. Took me ages to figure out what time it actually was!!!

By the way OP, totally off topic, but that's a very short time between finishing and starting work again!!!

Agricola · 31-10-2010 10:13am

If only Picard Fails werent such a cliche.................

31-10-2010 10:32am

It's hard to know if they actually go back since everything automatically updates itself

**Timbuk2** · 31-10-2010 10:35am

bluewolf wrote: »

It's hard to know if they actually go back since everything automatically updates itself

I never know what time to set my alarm on my phone for the night before.

Set it for the normal time, assuming the phone updates itself?
Set if for an hour more, assuming the phone doesn't update itself?
If the phone updates itself, does it change the alarm too?

31-10-2010 10:39am

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

I never know what time to set my alarm on my phone for the night before.

Set it for the normal time, assuming the phone updates itself?
Set if for an hour more, assuming the phone doesn't update itself?
If the phone updates itself, does it change the alarm too?

Hm
If you wanted to be up at 7, and set it for 7, either... the phone updates and goes back an hour but you're still up at 7 new time, or the phone doesn't update in which case you're up an hour early?
I guess you're safe either way, it's nice to wake up early and appreciate the lie in!!

Truley · 31-10-2010 10:43am

Just remember the rule spring forward, fall back. So you will always know whether to go an hour ahead or behind. You still have to remember when to change though

On a similar note, my dad once told me that when he was a kid it was common for Sunday mass to be held twice on weekends the times changed. So that people couldn't use it as an excuse to miss mass - Sly!

dxhound2005 · 31-10-2010 11:13am

Time to start preparing for next March. Here's what's happening.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=78&year=2011

31-10-2010 11:16am

Truley wrote: »

On a similar note, my dad once told me that when he was a kid it was common for Sunday mass to be held twice on weekends the times changed. So that people couldn't use it as an excuse to miss mass - Sly!

You know you're doing something wrong when people are looking for any excuse to miss it

hbr · 31-10-2010 11:25am

What are you grumbling about? You had an extra hour in bed.

sallysaucer101 wrote: »

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

Save that for the last Sunday in March.

Godsentme · 31-10-2010 11:29am

Sweet baby jesus. AH is being taken over by 3 year olds. Lock this thread, please.:mad:

Liam Byrne · 31-10-2010 11:40am

I'm confused now! If the time change "confused" the OP (rather than them simply forgetting about it) it would seem that they put their clock forward ?

Wouldn't that mean they were in work 2 hours early ?

In that case, OP, be glad that they did go back because if you were only an hour early then you would have been late for work!

Collie D · 31-10-2010 11:41am

Godsentme wrote: »

Sweet baby jesus. AH is being taken over by 3 year olds. Lock this thread, please.:mad:

Step 1. Go back to bed
Step 2. Get up on the right side this time (take an optional extra hour if necessary - the clocks went back).

themandan6611 · 31-10-2010 11:46am

op, get off the internet and do some good-damn work, no wonder the country is crippled !!!:D

bobbytables · 31-10-2010 11:54am

Shortly after I turned 17 I shipped myself off to college away from home. It was my first time away, and I underestimated the experience of being on my own in a strange place knowing absolutely nobody. I hated it.

I went home at the weekends and valued that time immensely. So in October when the clocks went back I was very happy to have the extra hour at home.

This is how I remember which way the clocks go.

sallysaucer101 · 04-11-2010 8:05pm

havana wrote: »

By the way OP, totally off topic, but that's a very short time between finishing and starting work again!!!

The joys of being a hotel receptionist....!!!

And even after reading all these posts I'm still confused...why cant they just leave time alone!!

MazG · 04-11-2010 8:13pm

sallysaucer101 wrote: »

For the second year running I have gotten it wrong with the clocks going back and am in work an hour early...

Seriously....who's stupid idea was it anyway!!

Wouldn't mind only I finished work at 11.30 pm last night...20 min drive home..asleep by 12.30am then up at what I though was 6am to be in work for 7.30am only to arrive in the door and be told its only 6.30am!!

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but if you're not already aware, your employer should be giving you a consecutive 11 hr break between shifts every 24 hours. It's actually illegal for you to be assigned a shift that ends at 11:30pm on a Saturday night and then have you rostered at 7:30am the next morning.

http://www.employmentrights.ie/en/informationforemployees/workinghours/

(Unless you work in an industry with an ERO to the contrary - I admit I'm not familiar with all of them...)

sallysaucer101 · 04-11-2010 8:21pm

Yeah I had heard of that before but seemily hotels are different.

Something about Joint Labour Comittees....Yet another thing I dont understand, I know I just have to go along with it!

Posy · 04-11-2010 8:25pm

sallysaucer101 wrote: »

And even after reading all these posts I'm still confused...why cant they just leave time alone!!

At 1am in the autumn it goes an hour BACK. At 1am in the spring it goes an hour FORWARD. Check the time on sky news after that if you're still confused.

I think next spring they should put it forward half an hour and then leave it alone FOREVER.

MazG · 04-11-2010 8:40pm

sallysaucer101 wrote: »

Yeah I had heard of that before but seemily hotels are different.

Something about Joint Labour Comittees....Yet another thing I dont understand, I know I just have to go along with it!

Sorry, I hadn't spotted that you work in a hotel. There is an ERO for hotels, but http://www.employmentrights.ie/en/informationforemployees/industryspecificinformation/hotels/
seems to say that the 11hr rule still applies. Might be worth a call to NERA if it's something that is bothering you, just to confirm what the correct break between shifts is for you (and your colleagues)

And again, sorry for the off topic post.

Back on topic:

Was anyone else confused by how some people who relied on their iPhone alarm managed to be an hour late for work after the clocks went back? Surely if the phone didn't update for the change their alarms would have gone off an hour early?

battries not included · 04-11-2010 8:48pm

Anyone travelling to Iran be sure to turn your clocks back 1200 years :rolleyes:

Chuchoter · 04-11-2010 9:03pm

Its so dark at like half 5 in the evening. I hate the dark

Bonito · 04-11-2010 10:02pm

sallysaucer101 wrote: »

For the second year running I have gotten it wrong with the clocks going back and am in work an hour early...

Seriously....who's stupid idea was it anyway!!

Wouldn't mind only I finished work at 11.30 pm last night...20 min drive home..asleep by 12.30am then up at what I though was 6am to be in work for 7.30am only to arrive in the door and be told its only 6.30am!!

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

I call shenanigans. If the clocks went back an hour, and you put yours forward an hour, that's a difference of 2, so you should be 2 hours early for work, not 1.

MazG · 04-11-2010 10:06pm

Perhaps the OP got it wrong as in got the date wrong, or simply wasn't aware that it was happening. And thus arrived an hour early for work.

I worked with someone years ago who did the two hours early thing though. She was not a happy bunny that day, especially with the rest of us sniggering in the corner...