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I hate it.

I tend to go to bed early ....... 9 or 10
I tend to get up early ........... 5 or 5.30
So. tomorrow, I'll be going to bed at 8, and be up soon after 4.

It'll take me a week or two or more, to get into the swing of the clocks going back.
Clocks going forward, isn't so bad at all.

did anyone see the bloke doing the weather BBC fri night - "Out of contractual arrangements as a weather presenter I need to tell you the the clocks go back this weekend, it has nothing to do with the weather....." they might not have been the exacts words but you et the idea.

(probably the only part of the forecast he got right!)

I'd like to see BST all year round. I get up late and go to bed late, so it would make more daylight for me.

Now I just get up when it suits me - it's great!

Yep +1. Why didn't we stick with this after we tried it in 1968 for a 3 year experiment. It reduced overall deaths in road accidents over the period. It could also reduce energy consumption. What's not to like. It was only Scotland that objected strongly last time.
Are the USA about to do the same and abolish it. ? Europe too. ?


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If you eschew clocks etc you can have a free life. Changing clocks becomes unnecessary.

mumbojumbo wrote: ↑29 Oct 2022, 7:47pm If you eschew clocks etc you can have a free life. Changing clocks becomes unnecessary.

J.G. Ballard wrote a short sci-fi story called Chronopolis. Long time since l read it but the premise is that clocks have been abolished because time is too controlling. The hero (or anti-hero) is in trouble for having a watch.

One year - I can't remember when it was, maybe the 80's - we decided not move our clocks back until the Monday morning. This meant that we had a relaxing Monday morning and the children went to school an hour late!

Just move the damned clocks half an hour and forget about it would be better.

Used to bother me a lot until I retired - makes no difference to me now. It is the same amount of daylight regardless f what the cllocks say

Well, I've been wide awake since 4am GMT.

The plus side of moving the clocks back, is that here in the livingroom, we have four ticking clocks and two of them strike the hour and half-hour.
You can't move them backwards, so I've stopped them.

Absolute peace and quiet!

Mick F wrote: ↑30 Oct 2022, 6:15am Well, I've been wide awake since 4am GMT.

The plus side of moving the clocks back, is that here in the livingroom, we have four ticking clocks and two of them strike the hour and half-hour.
You can't move them backwards, so I've stopped them.

Absolute peace and quiet!

Well, Mick, the watch left my wrist forever 20 years ago and although we have a clock or three about the house, I rarely look at one - they're only used when the world outside needs me to mesh with it, such as in a dentist appointment for the regular gob-torture or a visit from the heat pump maintenance engineer.

Otherwise, our hoosehold is governed by the internal clock of a collie who, being an old dog (16 this November) has a very definite opinion of what should happen; and when. I suggest that you too hide your clocks and ask Sailor what time it is, in terms of "what we do now".

Of course, younger collies have an inclination to seek novel adventures and things to investigate then put right. This can muck up their instinctive time keeping but has the advantage that they may lead you on an adventure too. How old a dog are you yourself? Are you still willing to learn the sort of new tricks that collies enjoy inventing?

Cugel, dog-watched.

Likewise - it's just occured to me that each of us as an individual, have pretty much no need to know the time. It's only when other people come along and make demands of us that the trouble starts!

Yep, I agree.
I've not worn a watch for 20odd years, but in order to interface with the world, you need to know the sort of time it is. Clocks in the house are a hobby of mine. We had fifteen of them once.

Sailor, is only three - four in February - and I bet he can't remember last October, so has no idea that the world has gone back an hour. He managed fine when we shifted from GMT to BST in March.

He gets a walk almost every day at 11:30, or sometimes a longer one and we leave at 11:00.
He's lying on the carpet and if I even stand up, he thinks it's time for walkies. He's hardly taking his eyes off me!

simonineaston wrote: ↑30 Oct 2022, 9:45am Likewise - it's just occured to me that each of us as an individual, have pretty much no need to know the time. It's only when other people come along and make demands of us that the trouble starts!

Clock time - a filthy invention of the Victorians aimed at extracting the maximum labour from the slaves in satanic mills, as well as a handy means to refuse payment for lack of time-keeping exactitude to the half second!

Also used, by roving shipborne criminal types, to steer about the planet more accurately to find even more foreign places to exploit, despoil, subjugate and murder in.

Then there's the use of clocks to [that's enough anti-clock ranting - the forum becalmerater].

I blame the Swiss,especially the makers of cuckoo clocks.

Cugel Ludd, also anti-telephone.

Mick F wrote: ↑30 Oct 2022, 10:24am He gets a walk almost every day at 11:30, or sometimes a longer one and we leave at 11:00.
He's lying on the carpet and if I even stand up, he thinks it's time for walkies. He's hardly taking his eyes off me!

I assume the pubs round there don't open until 12 then