Trouble adjusting to clocks changing

oh no. it seems like a windfall, to get an extra hour.

It doesn’t bother me now I’m retired. But it threw me completely out of kilter on one occasion when I forgot to do it after arriving home from work exhausted at 10.30pm. Then next morning I turned up at the nursing home where I worked at 5.45am instead of 6.45am. The night staff thought it was hilarious, especially the night nurse who took full advantage of my absent mindedness and went home an hour early !

It always takes me a while to adjust, it messes with my meds schedule too.

I struggle to get my head round it, but just accept the new time- until I discover a clock that has not been changed and get completely confused.

My clocks all change themselves these days. Except the one on the microwave, but there's no accounting for microwaves and I never use it as a clock anyway.

But I did wonder where my extra hour in bed went. I woke up and Xi (my fitness/sleep monitor, which is a Huawei so of course tells a fascinated CCP all about me) said it was after 11 and I thought that was strange, it hasn't changed when it usually does. But of course it had changed, it was just sleepy old me recovering from the flu.

It's my least favourite day of the year, I think.

GrannySeaside I absolutely hate the darker afternoons. My body is all out of kilter and it takes me a while to adjust.

On the other hand my sister loves the dark nights/afternoons as she likes to close the curtains and cuddle up with her Kindle.

It's the other way round for my husband. He detests putting the clock forward in Spring. It upsets his equilibrium something rotten.

It takes me about a month to get used to it.

It doesn't bother me at all, and I rather enjoy the fact that I have made it through the months since the last time the clocks were adjusted. The older I get, the more I seem to notice the significance of these 'milestone markers' of each passing year - not with any trepidation, but with a sense of satisfaction and optimism about what the next 12 months will bring.

When we put the clocks back, it just seems such a long day to me.

It doesn't bother me at all.

This one is fine, I can adjust to clocks going back no problem. But ask me to get up an hour earlier in the spring and I'm a complete mess for a week or more, yawning all day but don't want to got to bed at night.

I don’t notice it at all total forget it after I ve changed my one clock that needs changing

Like Ziplok, I find it a loong day, and I have to gradually adjust the dog’s mealtimes as he can tell the time!

Hate it. It gives me jet lag. Takes me about a week to adjust.
I’m not so bad with the loss of an hour though.

I spend days thinking it’s really six o’clock, when it is five e.g. Takes a while.

I don’t mind, but my dog has been agitating since 5am to go out on his walk.

At the minute he has just been told off for barking to go out! 😡

I can see I’ll be out by 6.30am

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Slow to adjust here too, although retirement means it doesn’t really matter… I was in bed just after 8 last night, and now the dog has just got up according to her body clock and has been running up and down! We need time to settle …

I can’t say it ever bothers me.

However on similar tack, dh had an old aunt who couldn’t cope with a one hour time difference when she visited friends in France. She was obsessive about having meals bang on time, and would complain a lot of being ‘all out’ with her mealtimes.

I think her mother must have dinged it into her that without absolutely regular mealtimes you’d sicken and die. Seemed to work for her, anyway - she went for 60 years without seeing a GP!

I always struggle for a few days.

I don’t enjoy putting clocks right that don’t do it automatically.

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It affected our dog too. Been out early this am. We like to take her to the woods after work for a good run around 5.30pm, but that’s not happening now it’s dark by then. She’d be fine but I’d probably trip.

I rarely know what time it is, sometimes I don’t even know what day.

I really hate this change, it causes all sorts of sleep problems for me I wish they would decided on one or the other.

A hour extra in bed, and up in the light. What’s not to like as far as I’m concerned. I do all my outside and manual work in the morning anyway, so the darker early evenings don’t bother me. I wish the dog felt the same, he was whining for his breakfast at 6.00 this morning.