is everybody looking forward to the clocks going back?

XplaygirlX · 24-10-2015 4:24pm #1

Finally the clocks go back tonight at either 1 or 2am and that means it's finally winter

is everyone as excited as me? Or am I on my own on the one

GLaDOS · 24-10-2015 4:26pm

Hate the clocks going back, won't see daylight during the week until spring

Extra hour in bed tonight though

dodderangler · 24-10-2015 4:27pm

I'm so excited I can't wait to see the clock go back wards. Probably not gonna sleep at all. It's more exciting than waiting for santy clause

NOT!!!!

gipi · 24-10-2015 4:28pm

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Hate the clocks going back, won't see daylight during the week until spring

Extra hour in bed tonight though

Yep, what the Nerd said....going to work in the dark, coming home in the dark isn't my idea of fun.

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kneemos · 24-10-2015 4:34pm

Where are they going?

RobertKK · 24-10-2015 4:40pm

No, but then to adjust, I will continue doing my work and other chores at the same time as today as if they haven't changed, and just start the day an hour earlier, and finish my work an hour earlier. The joys of self employment.

KungPao · 24-10-2015 4:45pm

kneemos wrote: »

Where are they going?

To the future? Or the past or something.

dmc17 · 24-10-2015 5:08pm

Nope. I'm looking back to when the clocks went forward.

Antar Bolaeisk · 24-10-2015 5:12pm

Nope, means I have to stay up later to Skype.

ygolometsipe · 24-10-2015 5:15pm

I slept in today until 3pm but now since the clocks go back it was
really only 2pm

dont feel so lazy now.

fussyonion · 24-10-2015 5:19pm

I never feel the benefit of this magical extra hour of sleep. I still sleep the same amount of hours don't I?
Hang on, I'm confusing myself now.
Either way, it makes no odds to me.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-10-2015 5:25pm

Another month or so of Autumn to go yet. I don't like them going back no, darkness depresses me, getting up and coming home in the dark. While I appreciate that we're lucky to have mild winters for the most part in Ireland the short days are not something I look forward to.

Hotblack Desiato · 24-10-2015 5:48pm

Changing the clocks is a relic of the past. We should stick to summer time year round.

thee glitz · 24-10-2015 5:58pm

Well are the late bars open an extra hour?

lertsnim · 24-10-2015 6:02pm

I like the change to darker evenings but in a few weeks the whole brighter mornings thing is wiped out in any case.

thee glitz wrote: »

Well are the late bars open an extra hour?

No.

LordSutch · 24-10-2015 6:09pm

Many years ago I got our first 'Radio Controlled Analogue Clock' which sets the time itself by way of a time signal from Cumbria!

The first time was in the Autumn when it was due to "fall back" by one hour (as per tonight), so I actually stayed up to see it do its trick @2am

This involves the clock (not goin back one hour) but going forward eleven hours to arrive at the new GMT time.

Digital radio controlled clocks just do it, without any drama.

Hitchens · 24-10-2015 6:13pm

I hate staying up until 2am to put them back. Why don't they allow us to put them back before midnight?

Fleawuss · 24-10-2015 6:13pm

Archeron · 24-10-2015 6:14pm

This thread is a pleasant reminder! I'm wrecked tired and gonna have an early night, now I can stay up an hour later watching the Simpsons! Yeay OP!

youreadthat · 24-10-2015 6:15pm

It's stupid. At its height you have to get up in darkness anyway but then you get darkness when you get home. If they didn't change it you would still get morning darkness, but a lot of people would also enjoy a bit of light in the evening and it would make a big difference.

efb · 24-10-2015 6:15pm

Clocks go back 1 hour at 2am

Turtyturd · 24-10-2015 6:18pm

If you went back an hour and started this thread, there would still already be one.

LordSutch · 24-10-2015 6:18pm

youreadthat wrote: »

It's stupid. At its height you have to get up in darkness anyway but then you get darkness when you get home. If they didn't change it you would still get morning darkness, but a lot of people would also enjoy a bit of light in the evening and it would make a big difference.

The changing hour +/- came about during the 1st World War, I think?
Something to do with bringing in the harvest in the failing light of an autumn evening, + Scotland comes into the picture too, somehow? something along those lines . . . . .

The Moldy Gowl · 24-10-2015 6:19pm

efb wrote: »

Clocks go back 1 hour at 2am

I must ask. Why did you include a screenshot of the Chelsea game?

efb · 24-10-2015 6:21pm

Wrong img oh just delete this

Oasis1974 · 24-10-2015 6:22pm

So maybe 6:30am it should be bright outside which is nice.

Notorious97 · 24-10-2015 6:22pm

Thanks for the score OP

Menas · 24-10-2015 6:24pm

Jose must be smarting tonight. And he has an extra hour of a sleepless night before meeting Roman tomorrow.

RayM · 24-10-2015 6:25pm

If the clocks didn't go back, it would be dark until after 9am in mid-December.

The best solution would be to put the clocks back every night, and then forward again in the afternoon, thus guaranteeing brighter mornings and evenings.

Turtyturd · 24-10-2015 6:25pm

efb wrote: »

Wrong img oh just delete this

You could edit it, but I am guessing it was an 'accident'.

TheLastMohican · 24-10-2015 6:25pm

West Ham is Est (Estuary time)

Chelsea is Wot (Waste of Time)

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-10-2015 6:26pm

Two clubs with some very dodgy sections of support. Wouldn't be fans of us paddies.

hatrickpatrick · 24-10-2015 6:27pm

Feckin' Nitelinks still run on yesterday's schedule so will stop at the "new" 3AM. Bastards.

efb · 24-10-2015 6:30pm

mobile boards, so edited it on macbook after football was over

Sheep Lover · 24-10-2015 6:32pm

Well this is embarrassing.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 24-10-2015 6:42pm

LordSutch wrote: »

The changing hour +/- came about during the 1st World War, I think?
Something to do with bringing in the harvest in the failing light of an autumn evening, + Scotland comes into the picture too, somehow? something along those lines . . . . .

I think the old story was that you could take off on a 9am flight from Belfast and arrive in Dublin at 8.40am. :pac:

The Dogs Bollix · 24-10-2015 8:35pm

No I'm not excited. I always get confused. Does the time automatically change on smartphones or do i get up in the morning and change the time? Then i could be two hours back.

Sunnyisland · 24-10-2015 8:37pm

Just found this out now :-(

Captain Chaos · 24-10-2015 8:37pm

The Dogs Bollix wrote: »

No I'm not excited. I always get confused. Does the time automatically change on smartphones or do i get up in the morning and change the time? Then i could be two hours back.

The phone's time is linked to the networks time, it will change when that does.

DivingDuck · 24-10-2015 8:38pm

Ban winter.

Samsgirl · 24-10-2015 8:42pm

No, not a bit. It means my children will be up at 5am instead of 6 am for the next few weeks ;-(

Bongalongherb · 24-10-2015 8:42pm

I'm well ahead of you all. I purchased an extra can of beer just for the occasion

TallGlass · 24-10-2015 8:50pm

No. Not excited, I take over from US at 12am midnight there time, at the moment that's 5am our time, but now that will be 4am our time as there clocks don't go back..

LordSutch · 24-10-2015 8:52pm

RayM wrote: »

The best solution would be to put the clocks back every night, and then forward again in the afternoon, thus guaranteeing brighter mornings and evenings.

Or maybe put the clocks back one minute per day for sixty days, that way we could adjust gradually...

The Backwards Man · 24-10-2015 8:54pm

TallGlass wrote: »

No. Not excited, I take over from US at 12am midnight there time, at the moment that's 5am our time, but now that will be 4am our time as there clocks don't go back..

Theirs go back next week.