Changing clocks ⏰

Just as I was feeling pleased I had done all the clocks, I realised last night that I had forgotten the timer switches - I have several around the house. The manual ones are easy enough but I have 3 electronic ones and I can't find the instruction leaflet to work out how to change them!!!!!

I always thought it was to allow for more hours of daylight in the far north of the UK. So from yesterday it was lighter in the evenings, but in winter it comes light an hour earlier in the mornings.

Without the change it would be dark for so much longer on winter mornings and I think I read somewhere that accident rates were higher on dark mornings when people were going to school/work.

I like the lighter evenings as summer feels that much closer.

BST please. My body clock has decided. It much prefers summer, although living in the east I rather think it should be the other way around. Northern Ireland gets light a long time after us - perhaps we should have a time zone line somewhere along the Welsh border.

I feel that darker mornings should be safer than darker evenings when everyone is tired and less alert.

Oh the car clock, by the time I've worked out how to do it it's time to change it again, ridiculous.

Our clocks in New Zealand haven't gone back yet as we approach autumn, but will soon. Right now we are 12 hours ahead of you and soon will be only 11 hours ahead. That makes it a bit easier when I have to telephone someone in the UK and am already yawning my head off. It also means that there is a bit of an overlap with late-night and early rising Gransnetters.

Btw. Pinch, punch etc and don't be a fool today!

The car clock is the one I usually forget! ?
That's the one I always forget too; also forgetting how to change it and so requiring a search through the manual, having forgotten to write the page number on its cover.
It's only 6 months between changes so should be easy enough remembering how to do it!

I dread summer, hot days and often hot nights, daylight waking me up too early. I’d be happy with equal days and nights all year round.

My spirits rise when the darker evenings return in Autumn. We are not all alike.

Me too Bathsheba

I love the clocks changing. It means I get to look forward every year to the start of BST - without a doubt the best day of the year! So, of course, there is the opposite end of the spectrum where I dread the clocks going back in October, but it's worth it for the joy of that extra hour of daylight at the end of March .

If we had to choose either permanent winter or summer time, I'd selfishly go for summer time. Being retired means I don't care if it's darker in the mornings, but having the light in the evenings is everything to me.

DH changed all the clocks this morning; some updated themselves.

However, my body clock is still out of sync.

Oh heck, I keep saying to myself " it's only that time " too. It's put me right out this afternoon as I really feel that I've lost an hour. I don't remember it being 1 o'clock at all !

The car clock is the one I usually forget! ?

For all the Mothers who this morning not only missed out due to clocks going forward but also had to get up and go to work.
I remember it well

Time on the washing machine !!! Yikes , thought mine was up to date ! it has a timer , but no clock

Always forget to do the time on the washing machine and the car. Dogs still expected breakfast within an hour of me being downstairs. I’d be glad not to change the clocks, BST will do me, what are you supposed to do with the extra daylight in the morning, weeding, cut the grass, etc. I don’t think so. Evening in the garden drinking wine - oh yes.

I love this change to British Summer Time. For many years now, I have found that I am naturally waking up earlier and earlier in the weeks leading up to it anyway, so this hour forwards is in perfect harmony with my body clock.

I am sure that I would cope equally well with, and enjoy, Double Summertime if we had it.

However I always dread going back onto GMT in autumn, as the dark evenings really depress me, and always have done. I am definitely a spring/summer person.

It seems we are all different!

I quite like the clock change that heralds the summer. In the Autumn when the nights are drawing in you are rewarded with an extra hour in bed. That's how I remember which is which. Also - "Spring forward and Fall back".

I hate the ‘spring forward’ but it’s so nice to wake up at 6am(5am) in October and then have a lie in for an hour till it is really 6am.

Ha I heard that too Beckett silly bugger should have just gone out for his round of golf an hour earlier!

Thank you Jalima I shall look forward to Autumn now.

Yes sunseeker... a small clock in the study always gets overlooked, often months before we notice it.?

Does anyone else find there is always one clock which is forgotten? Most of my clocks change automatically but I went round changing the older ones which don't - feeling pleased to have got it done, then realised I hadn't changed the one on the Rayburn (which has to be changed as it is not only used for cooking but also heating and hot water). I forget about it every time

Despite putting the ones that needed to be changed last night.
Its surprising as to your body adapting as well, as to daily routines such as toilet etc ,and meals readjusting to that added hour.
I think BST came in during world war 2 ,and has remained in UK since.
Mick

I heard on local radio that one of the people who originally pressed for changing the clocks was a man who wanted more daylight hours to play golf!! So we are all losing an hour in bed because some idiot wanted to hit a little ball with a stick