Clocks go forward this weekend- aaaargh!

[reni1]

Why oh why, I mean I do see we are this 15th century farming society and the workhorses and other farm animals come first and can't work in the dark, but really? I personally can switch on the electric lights! Rant over.

IABU and probably overreacting a bit, aren't I?

I think the Ayes have it and I am in a minority with my miserable grump.

And come Monday when everybody is all chirpy about the long evening I will be the party pooper in the corner at work and play wondering how they all do it .

Its crazy to worry about what time it would be or should be (although I have lots of sympathy for people doing early shifts but that is a general sympathy not a clock-related sympathy). It happens every year folks, its an interesting quirk of life. Just change your clocks and get on with it. Seriously - its only an hour, it can't be that distressing.

I'm always guaranteed to do something wrong with the hour change, be it change the wrong way and be two hours out and/or only change some clocks and then have to figure out which is right and change something I didn't realise changed itself. The time I had to get up at stupid o'clock this confusion was NOT welcome!!

My mum spends about the month saying 'is that old or new time?' In response to anything about a time. (And I'm always head in hands responding 'it's the time it IS, why in the name of H.G.Wells do you do this there IS no old time!'

I tend to find handling the hour change (once I've sorted out what it is and which clocks are right that is) if I avoid my mum for the surrounding period!!

With pregnancy I am having to eat at specific times otherwise get morning sickness, and my brain cant cope with a time change to get used to it!

Doesn't bother me, I don't sleep anyway. Been awake since 4am which isn't uncommon for me Hate my medication

I'd be quite happy to stay on BST in the winter and BST+1 in the summer. I hate dark evenings.

I love it when the clocks go forward. I'm with the pp who counts the days from October. I love the extra daylight in the evenings for walking or cycling. I suffer from depression and I'm convinced I have SAD as my mood immediately improves in spring and gets worse in autumn.

I'm another who is barely affected by the earlier start. It's a Sunday anyway so it doesn't really make any odds if I wake up after my normal amount of sleep.

Dd has been waking earlier and earlier the last couple of months. I'm pinning it on the lighter mornings so I really hope the clocks changing gives me some respite.

In the US, we did move our clocks forward a couple of weeks ago. I don't like changing the clocks, and I always fantasize about moving to Arizona (where they don't do DST) around the time we change the clocks. I guess they have plenty of sunlight in Arizona, so they don't need to save daylight

I LOVE the clocks changing. Love the lighter evenings and as pp's have said if they don't change we will all be woken anyway by the light and the birds singing. I love it in Autumn too, makes it feel like Christmas

YABU.
i love it when the clocks go forward.
i love the bright evenings.

But the evenings would be no shorter or darker if we never did this silly switch in October in the first place and nobody would need to get used to it switching back?

I love the clocks going forward, I get so depressed and tearful when it's dark all the time. I personally can't wait for sunshine 5am - 11pm!

I can't wait. Just hope it starts to warm up as well.

Absolutely drives me and DS up the wall every year, knocking our circadian rhythms out of sync, and making me more depressed, if such a thing is possible

they should decide whether Britain wants be on Greenwich Mean Time, or Central European Time, and bloody well stick with it!

Rant over. As you were.

I used to like the clocks changing in the spring. It was hard to lose an hour of sleep, but it meant summer was coming! When I was a kid, we changed the clocks forward on the last Sunday in April, so it really did mean summer was on its way. Then it changed to the first Sunday in April in 1986. That was still OK. Summer wasn't so close, but at least it was spring. Then they changed it to the second Sunday in March (in 2007), and it was not good. Now it's still winter when we change the clocks forward, and I'm getting up when it's dark.

I hate it.

the longer daylight in the afternoons mean the longer the local brats run up and down street shouting and cussing and throwing things and stuff.

the longer the bloody nasty neighbours stay in gardens with their smelly bbqs and loud drum n bass and shouting (doesnt anyone know how to actually talk thesed ays, they always shout?).

the longer the insects stay out!

the longer DC takes to go to bed.

i hate the bloody summer for so many reasons but at least in winter and cold weather and getting dark earlir means people stay in more and leave you alone!

Bah humbug!

I also find meals a pain, they all feel way too early, I end up skipping some and eating at weird times. It has all the hallmarks of a mild jet lag. Schools and work don't adjust to fit around extra tired and hungry people.

I can tell spring is coming without messing up my body clock.

One hour less sleep.

At least we've broken up for the hols.

I think BST would be better (year round).

But can't quite lose the idea that Greenwich should be on GMT.

love it when the clocks go forward.
lovely bright evenings.
i wish it could happen earlier in the year.

It's just an hour. You're really not that sensitive.

Haven't bothered to read all of the comments because there is always for's and against's of course
My personal opinion is that 'why is this still happening?!' 'Who decided the the time in the first place?!' And more similar philosophical mind boggling questions, that I drive myself insane with!
No matter how many people try and tell me the reason, I prefer to ignore it and carry on thinking that it is totally irrelevant . It's ignorant of me, I know! I just get on with it though, well, my iPhone does anyway seeing as it automatically changes it!

Wish they'd just put them forward and then leave them alone. It's archaic and no longer necessary.

But it's my favourite day of the year when the clocks go forward. It genuinely lifts my spirits. I love light evenings. DH doesn't get home until gone 7pm and it's great for him to feel like there's still a bit of daytime left rather than coming home in the dark.

It's when they go back that's awful. Hate it.