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DanFmDorking · 2024-10-26T23:44:13+00:00

SMARTPHONE – Leave it alone, it does it with magic. SUNDIAL – Move one house to the right. COOKER – You’ll need a masters in Electronic Engineering, or a hammer. CAR CLOCK – not worth it, wait six months

Seagullproofoldbag · 27/10/2024 08:29

Well, my newly teenage teenager woke up at 6.15, old 7.15, he hadn't changed his alarm clock. The hardest part of changing the clocks is hanging them back up on the wall. I mastered the oven clock years ago.

SapphireSeptember · 27/10/2024 08:30

ThatGutsyHedgehog · 27/10/2024 07:48

Anyone got suggestions for a baby who doesn’t realise the clocks have changed to woke up at 5 for the day ?😂

Put them outside in their pram? Mine is whinging because I'm on loo. It's very tempting sometimes! (Very Germanic, one of my friends lived in Germany when she was tiny and that's what her mum did!)

OneRealOchreHiker · 27/10/2024 08:43

Ddog insisted on breakfast at 6.30, will probably take me 5 months to get her to accept the new time!

Georgyporky · 27/10/2024 08:47

Advice on how to re-program babies & toddlers at the Equinoxes would be invaluable.

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 27/10/2024 08:47

MargaretThursday · 27/10/2024 06:39

This was quite funny the first time I saw it about 5 years ago.
Unfortunately it has worn thin having been posted around twice a year ever since.
Usually followed by several people pointing out that their car changes automatically and an argument about whether it's one house to the left or right, followed by someone (with diagram) showing why that doesn't work anyway.

I prefer to leave them anyway. I feel much better if my brain thinks I'm getting up at 8, rather than 7.

I hadn't seen it before and it's amusing. If you're so bored with it why did you waste some of the extra hour reading and posting on the thread?

SheRasBra · 27/10/2024 08:49

Woke at 5am with inexplicable shoulder pain. Lay there wondering if it was 'old 5 am' or 'new 5 am' and therefore ok to get up. Fell asleep again and woke at 'new' 6.30 am to find that the dog's bowels are very much still on BST.

CrystalSingerFan · 27/10/2024 08:50

MargaretThursday · 27/10/2024 06:39

This was quite funny the first time I saw it about 5 years ago.
Unfortunately it has worn thin having been posted around twice a year ever since.
Usually followed by several people pointing out that their car changes automatically and an argument about whether it's one house to the left or right, followed by someone (with diagram) showing why that doesn't work anyway.

I prefer to leave them anyway. I feel much better if my brain thinks I'm getting up at 8, rather than 7.

Aaah, but now someone can update it to point out that FitBits also get the correct time via magic updates. Public Service Announcement and all that...

Although I'm currently catsitting in a home with WiFi for my smartphone and laptop, so who knows how things are synchronised? Where is the central controlling intelligence?

Any techies know what happens to FitBits if you're alone in the middle of Dartmoor, (no internet connectivity), checking the stone circles?

CrystalSingerFan · 27/10/2024 08:58

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 27/10/2024 07:39

My Fitbit has lost the plot overnight and thinks it is 0938 Saturday!!

Oooh, mine is fine, and it's not that new. I will now check the graphs on my Smartphone.

SerafinasGoose · 27/10/2024 09:02

I hate it. Can't bear this silly custom and the onset of early darkness; it puts me in a foul mood for the next month. November is the worst month on the calendar bar none. Left up to me it would be BST all year round!

itsgettingweird · 27/10/2024 09:03

brightpompoms · 27/10/2024 05:12

@Sillyseason where do you live that you have heating on?

I'm south coast with my thermostat set permanently at 18°

Mine came on about 4am - think it dropped to about 4° last night

Pixiedust1234 · 27/10/2024 09:13

For the first time since stbx left I've realised I'm going to miss him. The kitchen clock hates being re-hung, the microwave requires 18 steps involving crossing fingers, clicking heels and a prayer, and my wristwatch is unfathomable except to stbx sighs

EDIT - we haven't used the ch timer in years, we just use the on button if we want it on.

widelegenes · 27/10/2024 09:19

daisychain01 · 27/10/2024 07:23

CAR CLOCK – not worth it, wait six months

if it's an old vehicle you can look up the details on the manufacturers website

For many modern vehicles, you should be able to tune the radio to Radio 4 and it will reset the car clock time automatically after 1-2 mins. Don't try LBC because it won't work as they don't hold the data on their RDS (server)

I've only had my car a few weeks (2015 model), I really want to know if it's modern enough for this to work!

ErrolTheDragon · 27/10/2024 09:20

Inspired by this thread I've just successfully set the time on both my main and small ovens. Well, nearly successfully- you get one chance on each after turning off and on, and by the time I'd twiddled the knob on the first it was no longer 9:15, and then the lower oven is inevitably slightly out of sync.

My dd was here last weekend not this alas (shes the family MEng in electronics) - I'm sure her advice would be to continue with my usual habit of not bothering.

PortiasBiscuit · 27/10/2024 09:22

Used to work a nightshift in a factory with a central clock, they would stop the clock for an hour at one am and set it going again at two pm. Longest hour of my life!

Candledr · 27/10/2024 09:22

I switch my oven and microwave off at the wall every night so I don’t have to deal with their annoying wee clocks 😆

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 27/10/2024 09:22

Radiolala · 27/10/2024 00:47

My car doesn’t have a clock neither does the aga (retro!)

No houses next door but could move to the field?

we tend to just argue with the pets over the time according to our phones!

Same here. My dog gets very cross when dinner time changes. We have to move it 10 or 15 minutes per day until it's correct again.

NewGreenDuck · 27/10/2024 09:26

ErrolTheDragon · 27/10/2024 09:20

Inspired by this thread I've just successfully set the time on both my main and small ovens. Well, nearly successfully- you get one chance on each after turning off and on, and by the time I'd twiddled the knob on the first it was no longer 9:15, and then the lower oven is inevitably slightly out of sync.

My dd was here last weekend not this alas (shes the family MEng in electronics) - I'm sure her advice would be to continue with my usual habit of not bothering.

God yeah! I used to work shifts in a police control room. Every time the clocks went forward I was on earlies so my 5.45 start was really 4.45 and I was always on nights when it went back so 9 hours of night shift not 8. Sorry quoted wrong person. I'm on the wrong time, clearly.

MzHz · 27/10/2024 09:27

Fourcandleforkhandle · 27/10/2024 01:36

@AutumnCrow apparently happening at 2am. Just waiting for my radio Wall clock to set to new time ( actually quiet creepy when the hands move automatically and make a whirring noise especially in a dark room)

In my previous house we had a clock that reset itself. Scared the bejeezuz out of me the night I happened to be next to it at 2am when clocks went back 🤣

Bodeganights · 27/10/2024 09:33

Skybluecoat · 27/10/2024 07:54

Forgot to add, I much prefer GMT to BST as I am a lark and love the early mornings. It’s hard going that last two weeks of BST when I am getting up in the dark and it’s not light til gone 7am.

I really do think we should stop all the clock changing and just keep GMT.

I don't care which time we choose. But can we stop the stupid time changes. It adds nothing to most peoples lives. It creates problems for most of us with at least one clock. My nemesis is the big wall clock, easy to change to time, a fucker to hang back up.
Also am on holiday right now, so no idea if any clocks in here need changing.

mondaytosunday · 27/10/2024 09:35

Though I do it twice a year I still struggle to remember how to do the car! Luckily no other clocks.

AutumnLeaves24 · 27/10/2024 09:52

Pixiedust1234 · 27/10/2024 09:13

For the first time since stbx left I've realised I'm going to miss him. The kitchen clock hates being re-hung, the microwave requires 18 steps involving crossing fingers, clicking heels and a prayer, and my wristwatch is unfathomable except to stbx sighs

EDIT - we haven't used the ch timer in years, we just use the on button if we want it on.

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@Pixiedust1234

are you retired?

I used to hate coming home from work to a freezing house, motivating factor in getting the CH sorted when I moved in!!

As for missing STBEx think of all the petty annoying things you don't miss! I bet they outweigh this one inconvenience.

if it's amiable invite him around for Sunday Roast then give him a list of jobs 😂😂

DatingDinosaur · 27/10/2024 14:13

@CrystalSingerFan "Any techies know what happens to FitBits if you're alone in the middle of Dartmoor, (no internet connectivity), checking the stone circles?"

They change once you've moved the stone circles to display GMT. Just checking the stone circles doesn't work

I think it's only Stonehenge where you have to offer a sacrificial lamb as well

DatingDinosaur · 27/10/2024 14:18

SerafinasGoose · 27/10/2024 09:02

I hate it. Can't bear this silly custom and the onset of early darkness; it puts me in a foul mood for the next month. November is the worst month on the calendar bar none. Left up to me it would be BST all year round!

Oooh, no. I disagree. February is the worst month. At least in November you still get warmish sunny days. February is cold and bleak and never properly gets daylight.

(sorry for the thread hijack OP)

AutumnCrow · 27/10/2024 14:41

TianasBayou · 27/10/2024 05:35

This is actually genius.

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It is, isn't it? I'm going to do it.

brightpompoms · 27/10/2024 14:48

namechange1986 · 27/10/2024 08:27

@brightpompoms I have had the heating on all year. The height of summer we never got over 20 degrees. Most of the summer we were very lucky if we had 14/15 degrees during the day. The temperature variation in different parts of UK is huge. People in the south of England always seem to struggle with this concept.

I'm in Wales actually