Dont forget we change the clocks this weekend

1 hour back on Sunday 2.00am

Yes dark nights again, earlier evening walks, cant you tell im a summer person lol

I want to change mine at 6 then I can have tea twice ................

How long is this madness to go on??   I really hate the dark mornings, find it so hard to get going in winter anyway :(  Its so depressing.  Why can't the clocks stay as they are??   Why put them forward in Spring?? When the mornings are lighter anyway?
I know the arguments about farmers and farmstock but I fail to see how this benefits the cows - they have an extra hour waiting to be milked tomorrow

And I forgot ... I set my alarm to get up as we're going to a pony show and now I'm up an hour too soon :(
I think they should stop doing this!

Dill the clocks going back mean it is lighter in the morning that is why the do it.. it is darker earlier at night.. :-)))

I think it is to do with several things such as children going to school and some of the islands are even darker at these times..

Not sure what other countries do it if any. Does anyone know?

Blue,
Thats my point!  In spring the mornings are getting lighter anyway - so why change the clocks?   And why mess about with them in winter?  Where I live it makes no difference in the winter, the sky is so cloudy its dark whatever time of morning and soon it'll be dark from 4pm.  Thats assuminmg the weather isn't bad, cos when it is - its dark all day :(

I see.. :-) Guess it depends where you are. It was nice a light this morning for me which made me spring out of bed so much earlier. Dogs were walked a little further and I was organised a bit earlier ;-)  I guess there are pros and cons to both.

BFN Pam

The USA does it, and I think all of mainland Europe too.
:)

And I just had to do an extra hour on my on call shift...and we get no extra money for it. :O

Surelly you did an hour less in the Spring though? ;)

I went for a lovely walk along the canal this morning with Pheeb in my "extra hour"...misty and sunny with gorgeous autumn leaves and golds and yellows and rustiness. I love halloween and bonfires and the run up to xmas :D :D :D :D :D

Not necessarily, Mel - it depends on your shift pattern. We've had this problem in the past too. :( We also have the shift-pattern problem (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday nights) of never getting Bank Holidays off - without time off in lieu or extra money either. Poor hubby works an extra 8 days a year than others at his work for no benefit to him. :(

Still got up the usual time this morning!!!! but it is nice having it lighter in the mornings....not so sure about the dark evenings though.   Hubby is still in bed.....(but not for long!)

That's so unfair JG.  :(

I too wish that they'd just leave the clocks where they are.  Don't see any benefit at all in changing them.

Ah but Melody, I wasnt on duty on the night in the spring.....

we changed ours last week thinking  we had it right :)& spent all day sunday wondering why everyone else was an hour out!!!! it was only when the news came on at the wrong time we twigged!!

I've got one of these alarm clocks that is controlled by satellite - it changes time itself :D Although, even tho' I've had it for a couple of years, I still checked it this morning to make sure that it had the right time :D

Daisy

I can remember a year - in the late 60s I think - when they experimented with not changing the clocks. It was dark until 9am, and very depressing, and I seem to remember there were said to be more accidents in the dark mornings than there usually are in the dark evenings...:( :( :(. I suppose the only real answer to the problem is to move nearer to the equator.....;)

It was in 1968 when I was hit by a car going to school and spent three months in hospital :(

Daisy

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Daisy

I remember 1968 too!  Up here in Scotland it was very, very dark in the mornings and I had to wear a reflective vest, that my Dad "constructed", over my coat for walking to school :)  Still, a much better solution than being knocked down like poor Daisy :o  I can understand why others would like the clocks not to change, but honestly, the experience of the experiment of not doing it shows its not a good idea :)

Lesley

I was 8 in 1968 and remember it well - although the mornings were dark, the rest of the day seemed longer because it didn't get dark so early, most people where i lived seemed to prefer it.  Perhaps that's why it affects me so much, I've experienced not changing the clocks?  Or maybe its just lack of sunlight in the winter affecting me?