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MoveOverMoon · 30/03/2025 09:57

Every clock change day I rewatch this. Makes me giggle every time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=51UpEKX39ZY

Edit to explain it’s a mock trailer for a film about daylight savings…

BunnyLake · 30/03/2025 09:55

I didn’t even know the clocks had changed. Because everything is digital now I don’t go through those first few days adapting (when you had to change every clock and watch in the house).

MoveOverMoon · 30/03/2025 09:54

I wondered why I’m so tired. I woke up at 6 but really it was 5!

VerySkilledFirefighter · 30/03/2025 09:49

Well I’ve been counting down the days to lighter days evenings, so this is the BEST Mother’s Day present I could have asked for (and also because the kids have slept 8 hours, like they sleep 8 hours every night and haven’t somehow rewired their brains to only sleep 7 hours because of an arbitrary clock change…)

Hedonism · 30/03/2025 09:46

You need to change your mindset on this, op, and use it to your advantage.

I am fully intending to have a full 24 hours of mothering Sunday by claiming my missing hour later on the week.

Orangesinthebag · 30/03/2025 09:46

Bogginsthe3rd · 30/03/2025 09:33

Other way round. In March you fall forwards into the longer days.

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"Fall forwards into longer days" makes no sense! 🤷‍♂️

Surely Spring Forwards because the clocks go Forwards, Fall Back because in the US Autumn is called "Fall"?

That's how I have always remembered it and I have never been confused as to how the clocks move.

Chunkychips23 · 30/03/2025 09:38

My DH set his alarm to make sure he got up with our DC this morning. He’s now tired and grumpy as he is NOT a morning person. Appreciate the gesture, but I was awake anyway as I am a morning person and our toddler is incandescent with rage, as he wanted me, not Daddy 😬

Justa60sRockChick · 30/03/2025 09:38

I think anyone who gets worked up about this doesn't have enough real problems in their life.

Justa60sRockChick · 30/03/2025 09:37

janeandmarysmum · 30/03/2025 09:26

Most people can't just fall asleep to order, surely? Or is that just me??

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Surely an hour makes no difference? Shifting from 11pm to 10pm?

stayathomer · 30/03/2025 09:36

Spare a thought for those of us in work on clock change day😅😅😅😅 Goddammit!!!!

Bogginsthe3rd · 30/03/2025 09:33

SlashBeef · 30/03/2025 09:29

Spring forwards, fall back.

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Other way round. In March you fall forwards into the longer days.

Thisisittheapocalypse · 30/03/2025 09:31

It's not the first time I can remember this happening. I think it's pretty rubbish, too.

StripyHorse · 30/03/2025 09:29

ThingsgetbetterwithalittlebitofRazzmatazz · 30/03/2025 08:18

I think when mine were little and early risers, I quite liked the clocks going forward as it meant they started getting up am hour later on the clock which felt better. So maybe it'll work out well for some mothers today.
Also, an hour less to work if you're doing the night shift.

Happy mother's day everyone!

This is exactly how I felt.

It's more of a pain now DCs are teens (oldest has a job we need to get them to). It doesn't help that DC1 also had a birthday party to attend last night so needed picking up - which meant no early nights.

I can't complain too much though, DH and DC2 are currently making pancakes for breakfast.

SlashBeef · 30/03/2025 09:29

Bogginsthe3rd · 30/03/2025 09:19

It's fall towards (as if you tripped) and spring back (in surprise). It always helps me to remember that Fall is late summer in American.

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Spring forwards, fall back.

janeandmarysmum · 30/03/2025 09:26

Justa60sRockChick · 30/03/2025 09:16

@PuggyPuggyPuggy Why not go to bed an hour earlier the night before?
That way you won't lose an hour's sleep.

It's not rocket science surely to work that one out?

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Most people can't just fall asleep to order, surely? Or is that just me??

SwanOfThoseThings · 30/03/2025 09:25

Last year it was on Easter Sunday.

I mentioned this on another thread - until 1995 the wording of the legislation ruled it out from happening on Easter Sunday - if the last Sunday in March was Easter Sunday, it would happen a week early.

The current legislation means that it happens on the last Sunday of March regardless.

If no exception is made for Easter Sunday, it's unlikely one would be considered for Mothers' Day, but you could always write to your MP. The present system is legacy EU legislation (pending the EU's bid to have all their members on a single time year-round) but since we have left it's in our hands now and the UK could pass new legislation if it wanted.

Which is incidentally, in my opinion, literally the only benefit of having left the EU.

CaravaggiosCat · 30/03/2025 09:22

Bogginsthe3rd · 30/03/2025 09:19

It's fall towards (as if you tripped) and spring back (in surprise). It always helps me to remember that Fall is late summer in American.

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I thought it was spring forward, as the clocks go forward in spring.
*crosspost

BeyondMyWits · 30/03/2025 09:21

Bogginsthe3rd · 30/03/2025 09:19

It's fall towards (as if you tripped) and spring back (in surprise). It always helps me to remember that Fall is late summer in American.

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Spring forward, fall back... clocks went forward...

Bogginsthe3rd · 30/03/2025 09:19

Mydogisamassivetwat · 30/03/2025 08:41

At the risk of sounding thick, what time would it have been now? 7:40? Can have remember if it’s fall back, spring forward or the other way round.

I never bloody notice. I just look at my phone which changes time automatically and that’s the time. This morning has been completely normal, as always.

I’ve never noticed it when I had small children either - I’m in bed now and my 4 year old co sleeper is still snoring away next to me like she usually would be at 8:40am on a weekend morning.

I live in a little bubble, obviously.

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It's fall towards (as if you tripped) and spring back (in surprise). It always helps me to remember that Fall is late summer in American.

UpUpUpU · 30/03/2025 09:17

I think the issue here is not losing an hours sleep (if you wake up naturally of course) It is losing an hour of the day and then bedtime being an issue for kids as they'll be heading up an hour earlier than yesterday.

Justa60sRockChick · 30/03/2025 09:16

PuggyPuggyPuggy · 30/03/2025 09:02

I have shit to do, so I have to be at the supermarket as close to opening time as I can manage in order to fit the rest in. So yeah, I do lose an hour of sleep, because now I have to get out of the house at 8:30, which we are arbitrarily calling 9:30 for the next six months. I've showered, done two loads of washing, I'm having my breakfast, and the sodding dog is still snoring upstairs on my bed after briefly coming to and wondering why I'm up so early.

Yeah, I resent the hell out of BST.

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@PuggyPuggyPuggy Why not go to bed an hour earlier the night before?
That way you won't lose an hour's sleep.

It's not rocket science surely to work that one out?

Justa60sRockChick · 30/03/2025 09:15

Obvs92 · 30/03/2025 08:01

Just that really. Where's my lie-in!!!!

I'm assuming this is some kind of semi-joke OP? And you don't actually believe either date can be moved around?

You can lie in as long as you want it's just that whatever you do afterwards will be an hour later if you stick to 'old time'.

Both dates are set well ahead - Mothering Sunday is a linked to the church ( historically it was a day when children working away from home were allowed a day off to return home.)

GMT and BST aren't moveable feasts, if that's what you want.

Both dates are known well ahead- like the start of the year.

PinkGiraffe1 · 30/03/2025 09:13

Mother's Day date changes each year due to Lent/Easter... see Google result below.

Next year it's mid March again and not when clocks go forward.

My DH is taking the kids to their sports activities this morning so I can have a nice relaxing morning.

In the UK, Mother's Day, or Mothering Sunday, changes dates each year because it's tied to the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is three Sundays before Easter, and Easter's date varies annually based on the lunar calendar.

Glammar · 30/03/2025 09:12

No lie in here as DS needed to get to football. The game has been cancelled at the last minute. I could have had a lie in 😩

LGBirmingham · 30/03/2025 09:09

Sofiewoo · 30/03/2025 08:23

Because babies and little children are often woken by the light and don’t just sleep the same amount of time when the clocks change.
It’s not really comparable to your dog.

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Which is surely why the clocks going forward is good? It means it gets light later for a while