To hate it when the clocks go forward!

Well this is the first I knew that they’d gone forward!

Crikey. What time do you leave the house?
Sunrise was at 6.45 this morning.

In reply to @GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing - sorry, YABU. I love the lighter evenings.

The time change doesn't bother me as in I just get on with it but I much prefer GMT time. I love October onwards when its dark at 4.30pm ish and I can get home from work all cosy with curtains shut and pyjamas, dressing gown etc. I feel like I can't do that now with it being light until 10pm! Love Autumn / Winter but not summer 🤣

I don't love the lighter nights. Sun still up past 7.30 annoys me and there's plenty of the year we would have that even without the clocks changing.

I don't have any problems adjusting to the clocks changing, I just don't see any benefit to bothering. GMT year round would be my preference.

It literally has no impact on my life, apart from a brief moment when I wake up that first morning and think oh it’s actually 8 not 7! And you gotta love the lighter nights surely? It doesn’t even affect my daughter’s sleep but she’s 11. I suppose it did a little when she was a baby.

Woke up at 6 yesterday which was 5 then went back to sleep for a bit. Dd slept until 8 which was 7. Morning was a rush to get to dd swimming lesson then grandparents for Easter egg hunt, and felt groggy all day. First day Easter hols today and dd woke up at 5.50, went downstairs, putting lights on as was still dark and tv blaring in lounge. I went and turned it down and went back to bed until 7. But we’re both knackered today. I prefer bright, warm days followed by chilly, dark nights where you can relax and get cozy so wish the clocks would just stay the same.

The older I get, the longer it takes for me to adjust. Stupid, really. I miss breakfast thinking I might as well leave it until lunch now, then I want to eat by four in the afternoon. Like a hungry cat. It makes no logical sense at all. My stomach should be thinking it's three, not four. By the time I actually eat, I'll probably have gone off the idea.

I agree because I hate it when it's dark in the morning when I get up. It doesn't bother me when it's dark in the evening.

I love the long days. It's just the jet lag from the time change I hate.

But generally people finish work at about 5 or 6pm - why would you want it to be dark then - lighter evenings are so much nicer in terms of travelling home from work or being able to do stuff after work.

Mumsnet is the only place when i have seen people actively welcome the dark misery of the short winter days.

Same.

I hate the clocks faffing around. It's a real hassle for kids with nap time and bedtime, and you get less sleep (I don't think getting more sleep 6m later makes up for that). Seems utterly pointless in this day and age. Why we can't just pick a time halfway between the two and stick to it I have no idea.

And now it's light when I wake up and light when I finish work, I can cope with it but I don't like it. I much prefer it being dark when I wake up and dark when I finish work. Going into summer knowing it's just gonna be lighter late evening and early morning always gives me a sense of dread.

I'm really pleased, it will be light till nearly 8pm tonight so i can go to the gym then cycle home without having to do it with lights in the dark. Light evenings are much more conducive to going places and doing stuff.
And nobody needs any more daylight at 5am than we already have to endure...

Er... at 6pm your body will have thought it was 5pm, not 7.

I hate the clocks going forward! Trying to fight against my night owl tendencies and suddenly an hour is added to my troubles! Going to bed early doesn't work if you can't get to sleep.

If it was up to me I'd leave us on British summer time all year round. It's so depressing in the winter when it suddenly gets dark earlier, and difficult when the clocks go forward again in March (apparently it's easier to stay awake an extra hour than go to bed earlier for most people). Getting up/going to work in the dark happens for a considerable part of the winter anyway, so it's not as if we avoid that with the current system. Better to have the daylight closer to the middle of the actual day.

I generally compensate by just going to bed a bit earlier, and/or having more of a lie-in than usual.
I did notice yesterday, that I was abnormally hungry for my dinner last night at 6pm. Until I realised my body clock thought it was 7.

I appreciate the lighter evenings massively though! My mood is much better when it's lighter out.

I only realised today that the BST is 7 months and GMT 5 months long

I really struggle to get up in the mornings, so effectively making myself get up an hour earlier feels like an impossible task. I had 20 mins to get ready and out the door this morning and still feel like the walking dead. DH is great in the mornings so he doesn’t understand why I find the clock change tough, but I’ll be driving to work in a foggy haze all week I expect.

The clocks going forward did have one positive result here - one of our dogs normally jumps on dh at around 5.57am, wanting to go out and to have her breakfast, and yesterday it was 6.57am! Time will tell whether this lasts, of course.

I bloody love BST. Yesterday is one of my annual red letter days, along with the winter solstice when the days finally start to get longer.

Obviously I’m a lark, and I’ll often go to bed in full sunlight for a few months now, but the lighter evenings are just a joy.

But it’s only an hour? I can’t understand what the big deal is, and I say the same when they go back in October.

I certainly felt the difference yesterday. I had to get up at 6am to get to an event, so it felt like 5am.

I did better than friends going to the same thing though. They had to leave the house at (new) 5am!

The day of clock change day, I always feel so hungry! I assume that’s completely in my head though 😂

I find the clock change in October hard, but this one is fine. Mornings on the farm will be a bit darker for a few weeks but I’m looking forward to summer.
The horses were all quite shocked to see me extra early today!

have a gooden anything nice for dinner ? , mine was that instinct feeling and then oh opps so to speak

i just thought its 5pm but then realised its almost 6pm

I wish I could take mine on an empty stomach! I'm not a breakfast person. It's ruined my fasting routine 🙄 & isn't good for my diabetes as I need to eat with my bedtime ones too 🙄