View Full Version : Don't forget to put the clock back/forward an hour!
NEONKNIGHT
29-10-2005, 23:36
Clock's to go back an hour tonight! :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/content/articles/2005/03/21/why_change_clocks_feature.shtml
:angel:
patrickp
29-10-2005, 23:40
Thanks for that, NEONKNIGHT! Ah! an extra hour's lie-in... zzzzzzzz!
another waste of time resetting my clocks and watches - time this pointless exercise was abolished.
It will take me over an hour to reset all those clock.
(Radiators, videos, Immersion heater)
It will take me over an hour to reset all those clock.
Christ! You're slow! :D
etccarmageddon
30-10-2005, 00:00
I'm not changing mine.
for the next 6 months I will always be an hour ahead of everyone else.
I will use this power for the good of mankind. As I'm an hour ahead, I will be able to stop events before they happen and save many thousands of lives.
oh bugger it, I'll stay in bed for that extra hour as I can't be arsed.
atlantis
30-10-2005, 00:03
I never need worry, all my wall clocks and watches, are radio controlled, get a signal from Rugby, so it all sorts itself out automactically, both forward, and back, when the need arises.
Clocks we got from Argos, watches are Casio wave-ceptors.
Christ! You're slow! :D
No got that many to do (DON'T forget the clock in your car(s))
another waste of time resetting my clocks and watches - time this pointless exercise was abolished.
Yup. :D
Pc clocks will sort themselves out and then I have others that set themselves, the video should do itself too.
The big clocks with hands on them (ie not digital) will need doing though around my house.
sir_drinks_alot
30-10-2005, 01:14
Oh i hate this. :mad:
Oh thanks for the reminder..I would have been very confused in the morning otherwise. :D :tu:
Tezcatlipoca
30-10-2005, 01:16
Extra hour in bed :D
Mr_love_monkey
30-10-2005, 01:29
All I need now is to be able to set my son's internal clock back an hour... means I'll be up at 5 now instead of 6
Graham M
30-10-2005, 01:31
hehe my mum went to bed totally zonked and i realised her alarm clock wasn't set right (as she has to be up at 7:30am), she wouldve turned up at work an hour early, wouldve been confusing :)
All I need now is to be able to set my son's internal clock back an hour... means I'll be up at 5 now instead of 6A wee nip of whiskey sorts that problem out ;)
A wee nip of whiskey sorts that problem out ;)
Which of them has to take it? :)
sir_drinks_alot
30-10-2005, 01:39
I'm going Accidently going to forget to put the wife's alarm clock back 1 hour ;)
been looking at my pc clock which shows 1.24 and i have been saying to myself - its really almost half 12 better get to bed - as i have been taking the hour off. didnt realise it changed automatically. now its nearly half one so ive just lost the hour i have been looking forward to - what a bummer!!
well i know what i mean even if no one else does :)
LemonyBrainAid
30-10-2005, 01:29
I am so confused. The post above Bex' says 01:39, yet Bex' says 01:25
o.O
Yea my clock now says 1:30.. but it was like 1:30 an hour ago.. if drink hadnot been involved I would have realised sooner...
dont forget to leave one clock on BST... it will be looking forward to summer in just the same way you are!!!
I am so confused. The post above Bex' says 01:39, yet Bex' says 01:25I think you mean bb31 ;)
One was posted before the clocks changed, the other was posted after. :)
Mr_love_monkey
30-10-2005, 05:44
Which of them has to take it? :)
If it's supposed to make me sleep through his calling and crying, it would have to be a big wee dram :-)
Bloody babies - we kept ours up an hour later last night so he'd sleep through, and he was still up well before 7am. Swine - he works on the rising of the sun principle.
Well I'm annoyed because if they had done this a week ago I'd have a whole week of holiday to adjust.But no they do it the weekend before term resumes. :rolleyes:
Bloody babies - we kept ours up an hour later last night so he'd sleep through, and he was still up well before 7am. Swine - he works on the rising of the sun principle.
Time to invest in a blackout blind for his bedroom :D
Time to invest in a time machcine. Hopping all over time and backwards and forwards could be fun.
You'd have thought it wouldn't affect him - his room's windows face north onto a brick wall! Actually, he's probably got it from me - I find it hard to stay awake after the sun goes down and impossible to lie in in the morning. His mother is the opposite, which is why I do all the baby work! Hopefully he'll drop off nice and early tonight, as the clock change works in the opposite direction (sunset is 4:35pm today :clap: ).
patrickp
30-10-2005, 13:43
IIRC British Summer Time was abolished for a year or two in the 70s. When Ma Scratcher got in, of course, she brought it back again.
Graham M
26-03-2006, 02:05
Doesnt seem that long since this thread eek i feel like im getting old :eek:
LemonyBrainAid
26-03-2006, 02:11
It does feel like the time is passing faster... maybe i'm getting old too..
Turn it in LBA, you want to wait untill you're the ripe old age of 24.
BTW wheres Davestones? or Kronas?
greencreeper
26-03-2006, 11:28
I forgot :blush: Should have set the clocks last night when I remembered. Will have to rush to get the washing done now.
Don't forget to put them back 1 hour tonight/tomorrow.
Graham M
27-10-2007, 16:39
Yay! An extra hour in bed :D
Mr_love_monkey
27-10-2007, 16:41
Yay! An extra hour in bed :D
Not if you've got a child, means he'll get up at 5 as opposed to 6.
Boo & hiss, this really mucks up my body clock. :(
Graham M
27-10-2007, 16:53
Not if you've got a child, means he'll get up at 5 as opposed to 6.
Hmm I've got a cat who'll wake me up instead lol. Perhaps I'll lock her in another room (with food, water, dirt tray ofc!) overnight ;D
greencreeper
27-10-2007, 18:41
Winter's here :( Halloween :( Bonfire night :( Christmas :cry:
LSainsbury
27-10-2007, 20:18
Winter's here :( Halloween :( Bonfire night :( Christmas :cry:
Miserable b****r!
Miserable b****r!
The most expensive time of the year is here...I feel miserable during the winter too.:(
I hate the dark nights as well.:mad:
zing_deleted
27-10-2007, 20:37
Its nearly christmas lol 5 weeks today ill be putting my Tree up and staring to get festive lol
Nearly all the clocks I have are automatic. As is my watch (receives the time signal from Rugby). The only ones that aren't are the clock on the microwave (which after my experiences this week needs replacing anyway, and has a crap clock that loses several minutes each day anyway). We also have one other analogue clock from Ikea that'll need resetting. Every other clock is automatic (even the analogue clock on the telly, strangely hypnotic watching that reset itself).
alferret
27-10-2007, 21:14
Popped down to Essex yesterday to set all my mums clocks back an hour, British Summer time finished for my mum at around 6.30pm last nite :D 370mile round trip to set 4 clocks n my brother lives 10 mins away :rolleyes:
---------- Post added at 21:14 ---------- Previous post was at 21:12 ----------
Nearly all the clocks I have are automatic. As is my watch (receives the time signal from Rugby). The only ones that aren't are the clock on the microwave (which after my experiences this week needs replacing anyway, and has a crap clock that loses several minutes each day anyway). We also have one other analogue clock from Ikea that'll need resetting. Every other clock is automatic (even the analogue clock on the telly, strangely hypnotic watching that reset itself).
Thats now located at Anthorn, Cumbria ;)
monkey2468
27-10-2007, 21:14
Nearly all the clocks I have are automatic. As is my watch (receives the time signal from Rugby).
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Same here, although a believe the signal comes from Cumbria now instead of Rugby.
edit: oops! as above!
I knew it had moved, but you knew what I meant anyway..
Its nearly christmas lol 5 weeks today ill be putting my Tree up and staring to get festive lol
Nooooo don't be a chav!!!!
I've got about 13 clocks to set :(
Nooooo don't be a chav!!!!
How do you know the zing isn't a Hindu :/
How do you know the zing isn't a Hindu :/
Because Diwali's less than 2 weeks away so he'd have his decs up already. ;)
I've got about 13 clocks to set :(
I'll still be finding clocks in about 5 months time with the wrong time on them :rolleyes:
Seems almost everything theseday's has the ability to tell the time as a secondary function...
Wicked_and_Crazy
28-10-2007, 00:13
Same here, although a believe the signal comes from Cumbria now instead of Rugby.
edit: oops! as above!
Correct, the Rugby signal stopped at the end of March. I believe it comes from Anthorn now
anyone know where the time signal comes from now? i think it was rugby but not sure if thats still active
dilli-theclaw
28-10-2007, 12:10
More info here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_from_NPL
One clock that I can garentee that people will forget.
The one in you car :)
More info here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_from_NPL
so it comes from Cumbria now not rugby - someone should of said!
Uncle Peter
28-10-2007, 14:53
I just hope that the Trident boats don't mistake the time signal for the nuclear launch codes ;)
I forgot untill i put my puter on......
dilli-theclaw
28-10-2007, 16:32
so it comes from Cumbria now not rugby - someone should of said!I'm not sure it makes any difference unless it stops working?
My radio controlled talking watch still picks up the signal just fine.
One clock that I can garentee that people will forget.
The one in you car :)
Your right, I did as well :Yikes:
Well one of them the one on the radio gets set by picking up the time off RDS
Rita Malone
29-10-2007, 14:00
Why does the government keep messing about with time? Now it means kids will be coming home from school in the dark. Many people will become depressed, anti depressents sales will surely skyrocket.
Not forgetting we get an extra hour in bed. Well, who can complain about that:)
So at 3pm, the sun will crash into a million pieces and the moon will take its place. The nightsky will become a teenagers face and produce millions of stars.
owls will deathen me with infernal hooting. I reckon we should scrap BST and just do GMT plus 1 and GMT -3. I don't know. What does Europe do?
<snip> I reckon we should scrap BST and just do GMT plus 1 and GMT -3. I don't know. What does Europe do?
Alternatively, we could just use GMT all the time, seeing as Greenwich is actually in this country ;) :D
Alternatively, we could just use GMT all the time, seeing as Greenwich is actually in this country ;) :D
:D
The greenwich observatory is about 140 metres from where I am sitting.
Actually, on a different subject, just thank whatever diety you believe in that you weren't flying from or to Gatwick yesterday. The computer maintaining all the BAA clocks (including the website, display screens and ceefax) didn't updtate the clocks yesterday. Resulting in hundreds of upset passengers arriving an hour late.
I was driving back fronm Cornwall and got lost on the M42 so I was glad of the extra hour.
Didn't get home until 1.30am so it would have been 2.30am without the clocks change.
Needed that xtra hour to atleast get a bit of sleep before going to work.
You do notice how dark it is though in the evening now. It's time to wrap up warm and get ready for Winter, cold damp rain, hail, cold wind, and slushy snow.
I was driving back fronm Cornwall and got lost on the M42 so I was glad of the extra hour.
Didn't get home until 1.30am so it would have been 2.30am without the clocks change.
Needed that xtra hour to atleast get a bit of sleep before going to work.
You do notice how dark it is though in the evening now. It's time to wrap up warm and get ready for Winter, cold damp rain, hail, cold wind, and slushy snow.
I left work to go home at 17:00 and it was already getting dark :(
That and I hate Reading during rush hour, getting out the centre is a nightmare :nono:
I bus to work and you just know that on the days when it is pouring it down and freezing cold, the bus will be running late.
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