The start of British Summer Time

[Angelfishsolo]

Don’t forget to set your clocks forward by one hour on Sunday 29th March 2009, officially the start of British Summer Time.

One less hour in bed = one more hour cycling

 

[Aperitif]

More unnecessary sodding about

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Yep I agree. I think WWII has been over long enough now to scrap it !

 

[Saddle bum]

We should be on CET. It's only the Jocks that stop it happening.

 

[Paulus]

Yep I agree. I think WWII has been over long enough now to scrap it !

I believe that the practice of putting the clocks back and forward was first done in the !st world war. In WW2 the counrty went onto Double summer time. These days the farmers have high powered machinery with halogen headlamps and work through the dark to get the harvest in, so messing around with the clocks should cease. Instead of GMT, we could stay on British summer time and rename it maybe British standard time, or even go onto Central European Time and leave the clocks alone.

 

[Melvil]

I'm looking forward to it!

 

[Paulus]

I'm looking forward to it!

But don't look back in anger.

 

[Andy in Sig]

There's a con with this clocks changing lark: they make the nights earlier two months before the shortest day but only make the days longer three months after. So I reckon the clocks should change at the end of February.

 

[Over The Hill]

I never can think which way round it goes and wifey always says "Spring Forward - Fall Back" is how she remembers.
I cannot see how it does as you can spring back and forward or fall back or forward so it works both ways round. Anyone got a way of remembering that works? I am 48 and still can get it fixed in my head.

 

[Paulus]

The Spring forward and Fall back is an Americanism. They call the Autumn the Fall, and when that is when the clocks go back.

 

[redjedi]

I never can think which way round it goes and wifey always says "Spring Forward - Fall Back" is how she remembers.
I cannot see how it does as you can spring back and forward or fall back or forward so it works both ways round. Anyone got a way of remembering that works? I am 48 and still can get it fixed in my head.

Yes, ask someone else.

I don't bother trying to remeber these sort of dates, it just takes up un-nesassary space in my brain, and there is always someone around to remember for you

 

[John the Monkey]

I have a friend who never rides in the week after the clocks change - he reckons it makes the drivers even more dopey and inattentive than usual.

 

[snorri]

"Spring Forward - Fall Back" is how she remembers.
I cannot see how it does as you can spring back and forward or fall back or forward so it works both ways round.

I agree.
It's the most useless aide de memoire of all time.

 

[Andy in Sig]

When I last got my car serviced the mechanic gave me a ticking off for not having altered the digital clock on the dashboard. He said that the easy way to remember it is that at the start of summer you drive the car forward out of the garage and at the start of winter backwards into it. My explanation that there was no point changing it as, if you left it, it would be right again in six months, didn't go down too well.

 

[tyred]

As I work in tech support for a telecoms company, we get it every year - customers calling in saying "we've had the same telephone system for 20 years now and we still can't figure out how to change the time on the telephone display." Well, they don't actually say that but that's what they mean!