Clocks going back

Well said, Apricot.
Show some gumption, people, and don't give in to the tyranny of timepieces!

I'm still waking up an hour early which is annoying but the dogs don't seem to mind!

Nothing ever affects DH's ability to sleep like a log.

Unexpectedly, I seem to have adjusted, which isn't usual......family crises, sometimes late evening, have left me not caring what time it is, so I woke at 9 this morning ready to take my pills...........

I'm still running on old time, and will be for weeks. Jetlag always used to affect me really badly. If I'm lucky I will have got used to this new time by xmas. DBH is annoying me by waking up at the new 5.30 because he simply can't hang on and go to bed an hour 'later'.

I feel sorry for those of you who struggle to adapt. It hasn't made any difference to me, I'm still waking up at 7am, which is when my alarm used to go off!

Woke at 5, but with much effort managed to doze for again for a while. I feel completely limp - but that could be the after effects of DGS yesterday!

Trek oops

I do love Star Treck

Double summer time would make for some interesting journeys - an hour and ten minutes flying Edinburgh to Bristol would still have you arriving about an hour before you left. With standard summer time, at least the journey would be almost instantaneous - beam me down Scotty.

I suppose if Scotland does in the near future leave the UK, that would be a perfect timing for them to keep their time and the rest of the UK to revert to Double Summer time - I think that is what they used to call it.

whitewave I've been awake since 4.45am once again (humbug) too early for me.

My dog still goes frantic at 5pm thinking it's time for 'din-dins'. I gave in yesterday even though his usual dinner time is 6pm. Tonight we stretched it to 5.30pm. Poor little chap is very confused

I don't know why people change umpteen clocks. I have one clock and I wear a watch. Just because manufacturers build in digital clocks in everything from the toaster to the Hoover doesn't mean you need to ever look at them.

I wish it would stay at GMT. If the sun is bright early on a summer morning, that is fine, we can get up earlier to take advantage of it if we want to. The winter darkening is gradual and we adjust to it. This sudden change twice a year is what upsets our systems.

I'm so glad I'm not alone Nankate! As Elegran says, it doesn't gain anyone any extra daylight.

I understood the clocks were changed so children didn't walk home in the dark, but around here they now come out at 3.00pm when it was 4.00 when I was at school so I don't see the problem.

As for the getting in of northern cows in/ out the dark, I'm sure that, although Scottish cows are probably very intelligent, I never understood how a cow could be told it was going to be milked an hour earlier/later the next day. It must take some readjusting and complicate things for cowpersons!

Have others not gave others !

Jet lagged is just the word for it Nfk I am sitting here in bed with a cuppa having that hung over feeling trying to get myself up and running for Keep Fit. I am usually fine at this time of day. I shall just have to get on with it.

Nice to gave others to moan with.

Good morning. I'm up! Been awake since five. I hate the clocks changing, it takes me days to recover my equilibrium. I feel jet lagged!

Living in the east of the U.K, I get the sun first anyway. I don't care whether they stay on GMT or BST, I just wish they'd stay put!

Hi Alea Don't wish to wind you up but,

You could buy radio controlled clock(s), then there'd be one less.,
like your bedside clock. Think your ipad should change back itself.

It would be interesting to find out if new car technology updates
the interior clock .

When told the reason for daylight savings time the Old Indian said, "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."

I had an extra hour chatting to a good friend in New York. The clocks do matter to me because we had a choir practice before morning service at my church so I had to be up early enough to go for the bus.

Long day isn't it?

I like the 'clocks back' thing. I didn't have an extra hour in bed, but got up as usual, then felt smug 'cos all my chores were done early. I listened to The Archers omnibus whilst catching up with the ironing at a leisurely pace.
I couldn't help remembering tho', that back in the Dark Ages when I was a student nurse, if we were on night duty when the clocks went back, we worked the extra hour without complaint - but when the clocks went forward, and our night was an hour shorter, we were expected to stay on duty to make up the time. That still rankles even after 50+ years!

I had 9month old grandson overnight so less sleep than normal . I used to work extra hour when working but also got less hour in spring so can't complain always seems to take me days s to adjust I don't like dark evenings but like autumn days .

Summer time is the aberration, not winter time. Don't be too quick to think it is just a few wimpy farmers in Scotland who don't want to get up in the dark, either. There is a gradual lessening of winter light across the whole of the UK, from south to north, and a variation all year in sunrise and sunset from East to west.

Every year it is evident that many people don't know that the further north you go, the shorter the winter daylight is, and the further west you go, the later the sun rises.

It is not just a matter of the clocks being an hour earlier or later, the whole day from sunrise to sunset is shorter, and the sun in lower in the sky, so gives less light.

Sunrise on Dec 22
London - 08:04am
Glasgow - 08:46am

Daylight hours on Dec 22nd
Plymouth - 08:01 hours
Manchester - 07:28 hours
Edinburgh - 06:57 hours
Wick - 06:20 hours

Sunlight quality on Dec 22nd
"In the summer it doesn’t really matter where you are in the UK in terms of the potential daily radiation because although the intensity may be less in the north, this is compensated by a longer daylength. It is when you come to the winter that it gets worse, if you are living in Shetland. In the winter, whereas we have got about 8 MJ/m2 of radiation at the edge of the atmosphere in Penzance, it decreases to about 2 in Shetland. So if you are suffering from SAD it could make a big difference where you live in the UK.

"There are important geographical differences in the amount of cloud cover, so comparing similar sorts of latitude, if you are on the Essex coast you might be expecting an annual average about 4 hours of sunshine per day whilst in the Welsh mountains you will be receiving on average 1 hour per day less sunshine. And if you live in the Scottish Highlands then you would lose another hour’s sunshine a day on average (Met Office, 2009)."
www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Sunlight+quality+latitude