Clocks go back?

Bard

Am I right in believing that the clocks went back at 01:00am this morning making it now 07:40am and not 08:40am?

BigCon

Yes, it's now 07:45. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=78

mad m

How come the teletext on the Uk channels hasnt gone back yet?

Bard

Neither has boards.ie's clock.

mad m

@Bard,

It has, maybe you dont have your pc to automatically go back.Mine did last night at exactly 2am and boards did also.

Bard

Eh, actually my PC did go back automatically and boards.ie did not for me. My PC shows 08:12 and boards.ie shows 09:11.

Matthewthebig

user cp>options>GMT>save settings

it updates it for you. well for me anyways and i think it worked when the clocks went forward

demanufactured

Bard wrote:

Eh, actually my PC did go back automatically and boards.ie did not for me. My PC shows 08:12 and boards.ie shows 09:11.

9/11??

spooky

Bard

It went to the right time when I turned off "DST Corrections".

*shrug*

demanufactured wrote:

9/11??

spooky

Eh, no.

Sarky

I forgot, and was an hour early for work. Had to chat to the abhorrant motcheen on duty for more than the usual five minutes. Arsebiscuits.

ando

I wonder who came up with the idea of putting clocks back and forward an hour and how they convinced the world to do it.. and why the f*ck did he want to make everyone depressed by coming home from work in the dark. hmm I'm bored

Pigman II

It is sometimes asserted that DST was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in a letter to the editors of the Journal of Paris (See the full text.). However, the article was humorous; Franklin was not proposing DST, but rather that people should get up and go to bed earlier.

It was first seriously proposed by William Willett in the "Waste of Daylight", published in 1907, but he was unable to get the British government to adopt it, despite considerable lobbying.

The idea of daylight saving time was first put into practice by the German government during the First World War between April 30 and October 1, 1916. Shortly afterward, the United Kingdom followed suit, first adopting DST between May 21 and October 1, 1916. Then on March 19, 1918, the U.S. Congress established several time zones (which were already in use by railroads and most cities since 1883) and made daylight saving time official (which went into effect on March 31) for the remainder of World War I. It was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. The law, however, proved so unpopular (mostly because people rose and went to bed earlier than in modern times) that the law was later repealed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

Lump

Theres a debate in England at the moment, people argueing to change to CET.... makes sense to me, but people in Scotland are giving out the it'll be dark up there at around 3pm or something like that! Crazy fools.

John

Supercell

Really wish the clocks went forward at this time of year, it would be nice to have the added brightness after work rather than before, when I'm too sleepy/getting ready for work etc, to appreciate it.

Supercell

Lump wrote:

Theres a debate in England at the moment, people argueing to change to CET.... makes sense to me, but people in Scotland are giving out the it'll be dark up there at around 3pm or something like that! Crazy fools.

John

But they are an hour ahead of us - it would be dark later in Scotland etc.

Victor

Longfield wrote:

But they are an hour ahead of us - it would be dark later in Scotland etc.

Earlier is later!

WellyJ

Longfield wrote:

Really wish the clocks went forward at this time of year, it would be nice to have the added brightness after work rather than before, when I'm too sleepy/getting ready for work etc, to appreciate it.

Too dangerous for kids going to school in pitch dark. Etc..

billy the squid

WellyJ wrote:

Too dangerous for kids going to school in pitch dark. Etc..

sure havent they got their mammies bringing them to school in 4X4 nowadays.

anyway, it dont help them much when they are going home in the dark in the evenings.

Victor

billy the squid wrote:

anyway, it dont help them much when they are going home in the dark in the evenings.

But most children finish school between 1-4:30pm.

Road fatalities are twice as high in the evening rush hour than morning.

Wertz

Longfield wrote:

Really wish the clocks went forward at this time of year, it would be nice to have the added brightness after work rather than before, when I'm too sleepy/getting ready for work etc, to appreciate it.

FFS it's already f*cking dark when most of us are leaving the house for work/college/whatever...come mid-december it'd be 9.20am before the damn sun decided to pull itself above the horizon...add to that the gloom of most winter mornings and it could be ten o clock before light was good enough to do a lot of things safely by...that included kids going to school.

If you're going to lay blame at the system then lay the blame at the feet of the change to BST not the change back to GMT...a system called for by farmers(amongst others) to make the most of the extra daylight at dawn in high summer...

@Lump; Of course, cos bloody London is the centre of the known universe :rolleyes:

Lump

I know! I can't see what the problem is?!?!

John

Our man in Havana

Quite a few places don't bother with it. Arizona, Indiana and Haiwaii for example.

Wertz

Bond-007 wrote:

Quite a few places don't bother with it. Arizona, Indiana and Haiwaii for example.

If you're far enough south (in the northern hemisphere) or close to the eastern delineator of your respective timezone then the change isn't worth making in a lot of cases.

danniemcq

Bond-007 wrote:

Quite a few places don't bother with it. Arizona, Indiana and Haiwaii for example.

oh yeah like they matter! :rolleyes:

Sarky

Hey, if it wasn't for Indiana we'd all be watching Dr. Henry Jones Jr. And The Last Crusade every Christmas. What a timesaver that state is...

Agent Smith

great, turned up for work an hour early....


bring on CET!

MisterAnarchy

There has been lots of research done on whether the hour should go back and
most of it has shown it shouldnt.
Dark evenings lead to higher rates of depression .
Older people were shown to suffer more in the dark evenings and more accidents occur in the evenings that the morning.
The hour should be left alone .

Hagar

My mother-in-law is staying with us for a week.
Now I just got stung to have her for an extra hour.
Is there no justice ?

Sarky

No.

Only khlav khalash.

Aisling(",)

time falls back in Fall and springs foreward in Spring

danniemcq

Aisling(",) wrote:

time falls back in Fall and springs foreward in Spring

only useful american phrase EVER