To hate it when the clocks go forward!

There are times in life I realise how adaptable I am. It genuinely doesn’t even register with me! How strange that it has such an impact on some people. I love the long light nights so it’s all good for me!

Maybe I'm odd but it doesn't phase me at all, I barely notice it. The time is the time, so when I woke up this morning at was 9am (yes I know it was actually 8) I thought better get DD up or she won't be tired at her normal bed time of 8pm. Changed the clocks in the kitchen and on the thermostat. That's it. I won't think anymore of it.

If you work yourself up thinking oh it's actually 2pm when the clock says 3 you just making an issue of it. The time is just what the clock says.

I hate this clock change as the mornings get dark again. I don't care about light evenings, but I find it really hard the first week or after the clocks go forward when it's dark again when I leave the house.

I couldn't sleep at all last night.
I love winter time.

Everything "being set up for them" is due to human beings having circadian rhythms that are naturally in sync with daylight hours. Thats all. It's not some huge conspiracy to piss off people who prefer working at night.

In fact, working night shifts increases your risk of cancer and other life limiting illnesses so if we tried to suit night owls it would increase illness and disease in the majority of the population.

Judgement also goes both ways here - go to bed at 10pm and you get told "dont be so boring", "dont you ever have fun?", "live a little" etc

I personally couldn't give a flying fuck if you want to go to bed at 2am, or 4am, it doesnt affect me in the slightest but I think saying a 1 hour change affects you for 6 months is dramatic and a bit silly.

It takes me at least a week or two to adjust. It’s like jet lag. I actually prefer summer time once I’ve adjusted as it’s a bit darker again in the mornings for a while and I love the long days.

The winter change is fine as I get an extra hour.

You can still eat when you're hungry. Do you not do that anyway?

That's not what we mean. What we mean is that the clocks don't change nature. They simply try and describe it for us. People who say they don't like clocks changing because the mornings are lighter or darker are missing the point. The mornings will be what the mornings have always been. It's like weights and measures and money. They're human ways of capturing processes. You plan your life accordingly. We're all bound to societal commitments and we have some little choice in that.

I accept that it can be tough when you have small children or certain work patterns and there's a period of adjustment but if it feels like 6 months of misery, you have it in you to manage your life around the actual constant: nature.

I still don't understand.

If, last week, you went to bed at, say 11 and got up at seven, do you now go to bed at 12, because it's 'really' 11, and then get up at seven, which you feel is
'really' six?

And how long does it last, this feeling that it's six, not seven?

And how does it work the other way round? When the clocks go back do you somehow feel that everything is normal again? And why's that one normal and not the other one? Is it because you were born between November and March?

I mean, I think that the clocks going back and forth is anachronistic and pointless, but it takes me about, ooh, eight hours to adjust. In the spring it's like having a slightly late night, and in the autumn it's like oversleeping a bit.

Surely you eat when hungry??…do you only eat at certain times?

Clocks changing is a pain and pointless. Leave them alone - I don't care if it's GMT or BST, pick one and stick with it.

It’s the getting up earlier every morning after that. It’s horrible.

I don't understand how anyone can be very thrown by missing one hour's sleep on a Saturday night.

YABU.

I love the clocks going forward and the lighter evenings. I cannot stand it being dark by 4pm, it's so horribly bloody depressing.

I hope she isnt 🤣

But anyway, the point is, the OP is still being ridiculously over dramatic by saying it's going to affect her for 6 months. Clocks going back definitely affects my mood but as others have said, I am an adult so I do what I can to adjust.

Those saying time is arbitrary are incorrect. It is very much based in physics.

Quick time history/science lesson if anyone is interested.

• Noon is when the sun is at its zenith (highest). With sundials this was easy.
• With the advent of mechanical clocks it became a bit trickier as the length of a day varies throughout the year. So we shifted to Mean Time, which can be related to Solar time using funky calculations.
• Every town then had its own local mean time, with noon as close as possible to the zenith. It varies depending on how far east and west you are.
• Fine and dandy when the fastest anyone could travel was horse speed - really confusing when trains came along.
• So the government decided to introduce a national mean time, based on the local mean time at Greenwich. Hence GMT.
• Other countries thought that was a jolly good idea so introduced thier own time zones, which is why they all go back to reference GMT.

Not arbitrary at all.

Fair play.

I get on with it too as I'm an adult with no choice but going to bed an hour early doesn't work for me as I won't sleep. I have to do it in 10-15 minute intervals.

Except night owls are more likely to suffer from SAD so my point still stands that the change doesn't have the same effect on larks. I could have been clearer that "your" was referring to larks.

I doubt (at least I hope) the op doesn't go around announcing it either. Yes, announcing either in general conversation is a bit wanky but given the topic, I think it's a reasonable use of the descriptor.

i never know what time to eat!

I hate them going forwards too, not because it affects me physically but because I hate it that the mornings get lighter for a bit and then go dark again for a bit, especially when I'm working and have to be up and out. This year is great as tomorrow is the first week of the Easter holidays so hopefully by the time I go back to work the mornings will have caught up. I'm also not a fan of long, light, cold evenings in March/April. I think they are massively over-rated and find a light morning far more valuable than a light evening at this time of year.

When the dc were small and I was a classroom teacher I hated this Sunday if it fell during term time as it felt like a ridiculously short day and I'd struggle to get everything done if I got up at my normal time, which was an hour later than it should have been. Now the dc are older and I have a more managerial role it wouldn't be quite as bad even if it were term time.

I absolutely love it when the clocks go back in October though and I can't stand all the people who invariably start saying they want to stop it. Lighter mornings are more desirable than cold light evenings.

Yep I felt great when I realised it was 7am I got woken up at not 6am as per normal.

No different to travelling to Europe and losing an hour is it?

I just went to bed at 9. Boring, yes but I don’t feel any different this morning. I personally don’t get all the fuss 🫣