Did the clocks go forward last night?

[4FourYears]

I've not long woke up and feel quite tired still. I'm usually up at 7 most mornings.
I've googled and can't work out if the clocks are going forward tonight or already have last night.

I don't have one of those super duper Smart homes or anything, but electronics do change automatically anyway. Therefore the only problem for me is that some table lamps are on manual timer switches. I always forget, so they come on in daylight! Until I remember.....

I assume clocks etc that change automatically do so at 1am/2am so you are not going impacting anything that has a date on it too

We always change anything that doesn’t do it automatically when we go to bed (apart from my car, which is usually correct for 6 months of the year!)

Well yes but the poster seems to be poking fun at her MIl for no reason, if she doesn't want to lose an hour today that's a sensible thing to do

Only my phone changes automatically. Alarm clock, boiler, microwave, oven,all have to be changed manually. Used to have to change the landline as well. No idea if the car changed, the last one didn't.

It's 'only' been happening since 1916 (except for an experiment between 1968 and 1971)...

I know. It’s unbelievable. Maybe all these posters have only just arrived on planet earth.

Personally I’ve been waiting for these lighter evenings for what feels like an eternity.

Seriously m?

I can't tell if people are trying to be funny

Clocks had to be changed manually back then so i assume your parents did it before they went to bed. Unless they normally went to bed at 10pm and stayed up until midnight to change them...then idk 😯

1am impacts the least amount of workers as there weren't as many shift workers back then. As to why we have it. Blame the Germans.

Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany recognised that using Willett's DST would bring more sunlight to the evenings, replacing artificial lighting and saving precious fuel for the war effort. Thus taking the British idea, in 1916 Germany was the first country to adopt DST. Once it did so, Britain and European countries on both sides of the war quickly adopted DST, with the United States following suit on 31 March 1918, after it had entered the war.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/history-why-clocks-change-daylight-saving-time-summer/

What on earth did people do before the age of the internet?!

It genuinely baffles me how some people have to ask mumsnet to check things like what time is it..

She has nothing to be up for. Wakes up when she wakes up. So the amount of sleep does not change.

My teenager just told me he almost ran to bed as he thought he had fallen asleep 😂

It really isn’t how she is thinking about it.

she physically slept for 8 hours but believes it to actually be 7 hours.

so yes. I am poking fun.

My phone changed on its own but the oven is wrong.

Oh yes! Forgot the boiler! That's not right too 😂

The times change the last Sunday in March(forward)and October( back) every single year.

1am impacts the least amount of workers as there weren't as many shift workers back then.

It still makes me laugh remembering, when I used to work Sundays, the bewildered expression of a woman who'd forgotten the clocks were changing turning up at 10:45 for a 10:00am start coming through the door and finding everything in full swing.

Always thought it was 2am?

So 1.59am becomes 3am (and the reverse happens in October. 1.59am becomes 1am?)

1:59 becomes 1am when they go back in October. 12:59 becomes 2am in spring.

well you made me giggle uncontrolably 🤣🤣

I was half right 😂

Thanks

What a few days!
2 Bank Holidays,
clocks changing,
Easter
April Fools Day
No wonder some people are totally confused!

Yes, I don’t understand how someone can Google this and still be confused about if the clocks changed. As soon as you Google it, it literally says the clocks go forward at 1am on 31st March. There’s only one 1am on 31st March and that’s already happened 🤦🏼‍♀️

And this happens EVERY year.
How do adults not know this?

I hope that is sarcasm.

@Astariel I was telling my teenager this morning that when we were kids, my parents were notoriously tardy and late sleepers and we were usually dragged (slightly late) to 1pm Mass as that was the latest Sunday Mass time. Twice a year (because we hadn’t learned the Spring Forward, Fall Back concept), we kids would lie in bed ALL morning on Sunday, no matter how bored we were, hoping our parents would sleep in late as usual and forget about the time change. Once a year, it was successful and we would drive up to the church car park an hour late, the parents would wonder why there were no cars and then figure it out - we were so thrilled to have outwitted them and missed Mass 🤣

On the one hand, smart devices are great in that they do it automatically but on the other hand, something has been lost - mainly the validity of the excuse for getting out of something you really didn’t want to do!