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Confused with the clocks going back...

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  • 31-10-2010 7:54am
    #1
    sallysaucer101
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭


    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


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    #2
    racso1975
    Registered Users Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭racso1975


    I think you, my friend, are the stupid one


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    #3
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,236 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


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


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    #4
    Star Lord
    Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Let's do the TimeWarp again...


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    #5
    Black Swan
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    Dances with the closest Teddy Bare (or dances in my teddy... I get fused when it's late)


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    #6
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


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


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    #7
    jezko
    Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭jezko


    Boards.ie could also change the time :-)

    You just did :-)


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    Firehen
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭Firehen


    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 :o


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    #9
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,637 ✭✭✭Alice1


    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....


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    phill106
    Registered Users Posts: 6,810 ✭✭✭phill106


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


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    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,437 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


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

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


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    havana
    Registered Users Posts: 752 ✭✭✭havana


    xzanti wrote: »
    The channel surfing strip thingy on UPC is still showing at yesterday's time :confused:

    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!!!


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


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


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    **Timbuk2**
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    It's hard to know if they actually go back since everything automatically updates itself :confused:

    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?


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    coffee_cake
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    **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!!


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    #17
    Truley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Truley


    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 :D

    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!


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    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,817 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


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

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


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    coffee_cake
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    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


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    hbr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭hbr


    What are you grumbling about? You had an extra hour in bed.
    sallysaucer101 wrote: »
    ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

    Save that for the last Sunday in March.


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


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    Liam Byrne
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    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!


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    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,324 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    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).


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    themandan6611
    Registered Users Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭themandan6611


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


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    #25
    bobbytables
    Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭bobbytables


    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.


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    #26
    sallysaucer101
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭sallysaucer101


    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!!


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    MazG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭MazG


    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...)


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    sallysaucer101
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭sallysaucer101


    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!


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    Posy
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    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.


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    MazG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭MazG


    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?


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    #31
    battries not included
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭battries not included


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


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