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As if it isn't enough with the clocks changing!

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yggdrasil Thu 29-Mar-18 17:24:02

The bongs are irrelevant. If you listen on DAB they are quite a noticeable number of seconds out at least. If you listen via Alexa and the internet as I do, it can be almost 2 minutes difference, and two different devices won't match either.
So you can't trust the BBC for time at all

Grandmama Thu 29-Mar-18 17:18:27

The Today programme is sometimes an hour wrong, panics me no end. The other day at 12noon the BBC forgot the shipping forecast so I thought I must have the wrong time - they remembered at about 12.10 and gave it then.

ExaltedWombat Wed 28-Mar-18 10:29:17

Bongs are MEANT to confuse you. Particularly when full of cannabis.

www.everyonedoesit.co.uk/collections/bongs#page=1

Day6 Wed 28-Mar-18 01:01:07

phoenix, I wish I could say just the bongs confused me. grin

I was working in the study on and off throughout the day, thinking I was making good time, would be organised to get dinner on, etc and even had time to sit down with a cuppa and watch a bit of telly before sorting out the meal.

It was at five thirty this evening that I realised it was actually 6.30pm, and only because of a radio news bulletin and a bong! I had forgotten to put forward the clock in the study. I'd been behind all day thinking I'd been really efficient! Doh. confused

phoenix Wed 28-Mar-18 00:41:10

Situpstraight I use the clock for most things, but have a sort of Pavlovian response to the bongs on Radio 4, in that it is a trigger to take one of my tablets! smile

Situpstraight Sun 25-Mar-18 17:17:51

I think I too would be confuzzled if, instead of using clocks, I went by bongs!?

Cherrytree59 Sun 25-Mar-18 17:16:44

Phoenix it adles the brain.
DH has decided its tea time, it may well be as the clock says 5.15pm.
But my stomach is still on yesterdays time.?

phoenix Sun 25-Mar-18 17:15:14

Played the bongs as part of another programme! But at sort of coming up to bongs time.

No doubt it will be only me that got confuddled , sigh.

Situpstraight Sun 25-Mar-18 17:11:24

What did they do then?

phoenix Sun 25-Mar-18 17:09:49

Afternoon/evening all, how you are all well,

As a Radio 4 listener, the last half hour/45 minutes has had me:
A) Running to the cooker to turn things on thinking that dinner will be later than ever blush

B) Thinking I am perhaps losing the plot more than ever, as the "bongs" sounded within about ten minutes of the previous "bongs"!

What are they trying to do to us? {confused]

Is it some sort of conspiracy, "lets confuse the hell out of all the Radio 4 listeners"?

What do they hope to achieve? perhaps it's linked to that thing that Paxman said...................grin