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?

An hour won't cause any jetlag symptoms. It's always on a Saturday night/Sunday morning so just sleep longer.

It's bliss. The older I get, the more I appreciate the longer evenings. I can't wait.

Jet-lagged?

Come on. It's like going to and from Western Europe. You compensate for an hour in no time, especially in October when it is like coming back and gaining an hour.

the spring forward isn't the problem. it's the going back in october I hate.

I'm baffled by those who say it throws them out so that they feel jet lagged. Do you really live every single day on such a tight schedule getting up, eating and going to bed at exactly the same time...?

In the current week I've got up at 6.20 three days, my usual time for work, 5.45 one day when I had to travel further for work, 6.40 one day as I was working from home. Bedtime varied between 10pm and about 11.15 depending on what I was doing or watching on TV. Lunch was any time between noon when I had meetings from 12.30 through to 5 with no break and just before two on a day when I got massively tied up in something and had to dash to the canteen. Last night I went to bed about midnight and got up around 8.30 so different again. None of this makes me feel jet lagged! It's surely just living a busy daily life?

I go to bed between midnight and 3am, that varies, but the school run means I get up exactly the same time every day, so yes, it makes a difference.

But it can't make that much difference as the amount of sleep you get each night varies, just like it could tonight and unless you have a school run tomorrow you can stay in bed a bit longer....?

keepitsimple0 Really? That's when you get the extra hour's sleep. What's not to like about it?

I always organise a team meal out for the Monday or Tuesday following - suddenly it's dark in the evening and still a long time to Christmas. A good excuse for a curry. Not that you ever need an excuse for a curry . . .

Tomorrow morning will be a bit of an arse because we have an unusually early morning start for a Sunday but usually it doesn't phase us at all.
It's worth it for the lovely light evenings

A question of time: changing the clocks - www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11643098

Going to bed between midnight and 3am is probably the thing that makes you feel jet lagged op.

Like some other posters our clocks went forward a few weeks back and it has been so lovely to have lighter evenings back and feel like summer is on its way, just feels like you can fit so much more into each day (even though it is still bloody freezing here grrrr).

How can you put your own clocks forwards though? The country is still operating on GMT, so you're just getting up an hour sooner than you normally would and then just getting on with your day, right?

About five p.m. GMT I changed all the clocks except my watch (including the car and the camera) and when I go to bed I will change my watch. What's the problem?

We only have to change the car clock, the rest all do it automatically. In a strange way I kind of miss the childhood ritual of helping my parents change all the clocks.
I was talking to somebody the other day who has been slightly altering her three daughter's bedtimes a week ago so she doesn't have any problems with the time change. I was a bit by that to be honest, they are 6,8 and 10 and don't have any special needs or anything which could cause complications.

Love spring forwad it means the drive to work at 5:50am and leaving work at 5pm means i see daylight
Doing the gym ( work has one on site) at 6:30 am in the dark takes a lot of will power

In the north of Scotland the sun sets later than the south of England. If the clocks didn't change then in the winter they would have dawn at about 10am.

They did experiment at some point and it caused loads of accidents and kids getting run over walking to and from school in the dark.

You are right of course PuppyMonkey, but with this devious hour theft I'll go at 1-4am. We get the hour back in winter when we need it least. Will be up tonight to watch time disappear.

I'm on night shift tonight, so 1 less hour to work .

reni so go at 1! Still within your normal window
If your bed time varies by 3 hours in a normal week I really can't see how an hour difference will make you trip over the bags under your eyes! I think you are over-dramatising and making a big deal over nothing much at all!

FFS, it was supposed to be my lie-in tomorrow.

Try this on people who might not guess it:

Ms X's twins were born the same day. The elder was born at 2.45 a.m. and the younger at 2.15 a.m. Explain.

They were of course born during that hour in October when an hour is repeated. I was once in A and E that night and they weren't happy about the extra hour's work.

When summer time was introduced a member of the House of Lords asked what would happen in such a case as, My Lords, a seat in Your Lordships' House might depend on it - I'm not sure what answer he got!

Apparently it takes one day to adapt to every hour time change...not sure how some people here can be so thrown out for so long by this!

I know now that I am in a minority.

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