is everybody looking forward to the clocks going back?

XplaygirlX · 24-10-2015 05:24PM #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 05:26PM

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

Extra hour in bed tonight though

dodderangler · 24-10-2015 05:27PM

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 05:28PM

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 05:34PM

Where are they going?

RobertKK · 24-10-2015 05:40PM

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 05:45PM

kneemos wrote: »

Where are they going?

To the future? Or the past or something.

dmc17 · 24-10-2015 06:08PM

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

Antar Bolaeisk · 24-10-2015 06:12PM

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

ygolometsipe · 24-10-2015 06:15PM

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 06:19PM

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 06:25PM

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 06:48PM

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

thee glitz · 24-10-2015 06:58PM

Well are the late bars open an extra hour?

lertsnim · 24-10-2015 07:02PM

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 07:09PM

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 07:13PM

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 07:13PM

Archeron · 24-10-2015 07:14PM

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 07:15PM

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 07:15PM

Clocks go back 1 hour at 2am

Turtyturd · 24-10-2015 07:18PM

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

LordSutch · 24-10-2015 07:18PM

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 07:19PM

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 07:21PM

Wrong img oh just delete this

Oasis1974 · 24-10-2015 07:22PM

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

Notorious97 · 24-10-2015 07:22PM

Thanks for the score OP

Menas · 24-10-2015 07:24PM

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

RayM · 24-10-2015 07:25PM

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 07:25PM

efb wrote: »

Wrong img oh just delete this

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

TheLastMohican · 24-10-2015 07:25PM

West Ham is Est (Estuary time)

Chelsea is Wot (Waste of Time)

is everybody looking forward to the clocks going back?

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