Messing about with the clocks

Seriously? I'm with Saggi on this one.

I always seem to suffer brain fog a couple of days after the clocks change. I feel totally wiped out today although I had a good night's sleep and didn't have to get up early.

Weird!!

watermeadow you could just have 'animal time' for your four legged friends and leave 'their clock' as is for them.

Now that we are retired we don't really bother with time as it is lived in the working world except where it impinges on us in the form of appointments or things like club meetings .... part of the joys of retirement. A farmer friend of ours goes with their breasts' own clocks too because as he says when a cow has a full bag they really let you know about it!

Relax , breathe and do your own thing - you live longer!

Recall late DH many many years ago forgetting to turn our clocks back. I always left this to him.As we always had a long lie in on the sunday DH worked six days a week it did not cross my mind we had this extra hour,In fact we never clock watched on a sunday and did things as we wanted and when.
Brecky in bed and perhaps a day in the garden weather permitting or just relaxing maybe a drive to the coast Tv wasn't switched on either.
Come Monday me still in bed DH went to work. I got a phone call from you can guess who.Penny dropped when he was the only one who had turned up for work at what he believed to be 7.30 am .Wonder why??

I remember that time in the sixties vampirequeen when they left the clocks alone. The primary school I attended decided to change the start of the school day to half an hour later (9.15) so we were travelling there when it was lighter. Don't remember what they did at the end of the school day, think it was left the same so they probably shortened the lunch break and playtimes to make up the difference. It's a long time ago, so can't remember all the detail of it.

The argument for matching European time used to be so that there could be direct contact by phone from one business to another, but now that so much is done by email the early birds could leave messagse to be answered when the later starters were ready. Same at the other end of the day - how much instant contact is REALLY needed in most businesses?

Employers and schools don't need to set their hours by the clock. If they want people to start earlier and finish earlier in the summer (good idea to use the early daylight to get the working day over and then have more time to do what you want) then they could set their opening hours to suit from April to October. Then when the mornings are darker they could change their hours to suit that from October round to April again.

We could then keep to Greenwich Mean Time - the sun's REAL time - for what appears on the clockface.

Dear me Saggi, only three to four hours sleep a night. You need at least seven and that, recent stories have said, prevents all sorts of illnesses including dementia.

Does anybody actually get up an hour earlier to do the things that need to be done outdoors in daylight? I certainly don't. I just lose an hour of daylight when I could be gardening. It makes me very cross every autumn, and then I am cross again in spring because I lose an hours sleep. The daylength is set by the sun. Why do we have to fiddle around?

It isn't so much the adjustment in my sleeping or eating hours that trouble me, a day or two sorts this out for us. But we do our laundry, drying and dishwashing using cheap power overnight, and it always takes me a few days to get the time delays set correctly - particularly since I tend to forget to change the clock in the utility room. Perhaps I should go back to wearing a watch for a few days, twice a year, until I'm sure that the various clocks in the house are changed?!
I gave up wearing a watch when I retired, there are aways clocks around, or I can check the time on my phone when I'm out. I'm not bothered what time I go to bed, get up or eat.

There are many more people in the southern part of the UK. The law should reflect this.

Oh for goodness sake ....how CAN you make an issue of this clock stuff!? Just get on with it . After two days your body will adjust. Or be like me ...I only sleep 3-4 hours a night anyway,and I never know when THATS gonna be! I’m always up at 5.30 , walk to my daughters’ at 6.30 ( 3 miles)...arrive at 7.20. She and hubby go to work...I get two kids ready for school , feed them and GET them to school. Go back to hers...do a bit of housework for them... walk home ( 3 miles) , do a bit of housework for myself while my hubby watches tv all day...bit of shopping.... lunch with hubby...get two buses back to daughters...pick kids up from school..feed them...wait for parents to return.Go home in traffic ( two buses)...takes over an hour!!! Cook dinner ...day done!! You folk are moaning about CLOCKS!!!!

I believe the clock change was started during WW2 to give farmers more light in the evening to mange their farms. I also remember the time when the clocks weren't changed at this time of the year and I hated it. It took so long for the day to lighten up that it seemed to be dark all day. Everyone went to school or work in the dark but children don't come home in the dark these days as a lot of schools actuall leave school a lot earlier now.
I really don't mind the clock change. I enjoy the very light evenings in the spring/summer and the darker evenings in the autumn and winter. As mentioned above it is only an hour and we know it is going to happen so I embrace it.
The USA and Europe also do the clock change but I don't know who else dose it. I also want to say that the time we are in now is GMT so the real time.

Me too, goldengirl. I'd prefer summer time in winter and double summer time in summer, if you know what I mean! In line with continental Europe.

Why can't we have a referendum on changing the clocks!!!

I too loathe the clocks going back. I don't like dark evenings at all. Yet if I say roll on March then I'm wishing my life away. It's a dilemma!!! I've never had trouble with time zones when travelling but I wish we didn't have to muck about changing clocks - I forget how many we've got until they need changing

I loathe the fall back lark, love the spring forward, I havent any bother with the actual time, its just the flipping short days, it was black as night at 5pm yesterday and just getting light at 8am today, mind you we do live in Sweden, things wont get better until about March!

I use the mantra Fall back, spring forward for my scatter brain and it works. The only part of autumn/winter I can't cope with is the darkness, both during the day because of cloud and dusk at 4pm...its so depressing....so much so I take holidays abroad in October and November, get through Christmas and go on holiday again in January and February...which brings me into March where I can look forward to nights getting slightly brighter, but more sunshine during the day. Sounds expensive but it doesn't cost much more than staying at home. I tried a lightbox for SAD syndrome...didn't make any difference so!!

Gosh! How do you cope with jet lag? Only one hour takes one day to get used to. I do enjoy the short days. Doesn't bother me at all. Maybe I was a bat in my previous life! [grin}

I loved it in the 60s too. I hate the dark evenings. I was in the North then & remember the debates. I was so sorry when it changed back.

I don't think it was designed with child safety in mind. Anyway, wouldn't you rather have daylight at the END of the school day, when they're wandering home tired than at the beginning when the journey is more purposeful?

Yes they did stop it in the 60's for a while. It was great!!
I think it is an outdated thing & the vast majority of children now have street lights in their roads & if not they should be accompanied to school anyway. Most young children seem to go to school by car these days too.
I remember it was blamed on Scottish farmers who did not like starting milking cows in the dark that were to blame for starting it again in 1967 I think. Now there are automatic milking parlours I don't see why we need to continue with this daft practice.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest. By the middle of November I drive to work in the dark, drive home in the dark and am stuck inside in the office the rest of the day so feels like I never see the sun for months anyway.

I had DS2 in December 1968 (the year clocks changed by TWO hours). I remember being woken in the dark to feed the baby at 6.0 am and it was still dark when they were fed at 10.0 am.

It’s just an hour ‘

How do you all cope if you travel to and from different time zones ?

I loved having an extra hour's sleep. I know we have to give it back in March but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

At work I always look at the phone to see what the time is. It wasn't till 3 pm yesterday till I realised that the phone still said the old time, but the computer screen had changed and was showing the right time. I had had my lunch at 11:15!

Used to build up my animals change but bringing forward or putting back 10 minutes for a week or so, so it wasnt a problem ....and I eat when I am hungry, but hate the changes even though I can understand why, my body clock dosent

It is done to protect the lives of children and pedestrians who live in areas affected like vampirequeen where statistics prove that more lives are lost if the clocks are not changed. I too remember the reflective strips and it was awful. You felt like you were going to school during the night and it was quite scary as a child being so dark - I had to walk past woods on the way to school where monsters and "bad people" lived!! It was also colder then so often icy!