‘An hour less in bed’

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

Lighthearted... although it does make me scream a little bit

Every year, my mother reminds me that the clocks are going forward and complains about getting ‘an hour less in bed’. (She also gets excited about the ‘extra hour’ in autumn.)

Now, I could understand this if she worked Sundays and had to be up at a certain time. But she doesn’t. She never has. And as she’s nearly 70, she never will. If she wants an extra hour in bed, she can have one - or two, or three, or sleep all day! No one is going to say, ‘It’s 9am - you MUST get up’.

Why is she worried about ‘losing’ an hour in bed once a year when she could have that hour in bed every week?!

and I do not believe that children are the same as dogs.

To be fair, some are!

So glad to be past the baby stage. Used to hate clock changes with them to consider. So much easier with teens.

I see it as being 1 hour closer to Sunday night bedtime... bliss 😀

@candodad > "I’m really excited by this. Simply because it means our kitchen clock will be the right time again. It’s not hard to change, or hard to reach, we just couldn’t be bothered."

Glad to know a sense of humour is still displayed sometimes on Mumsnet, even if some dismiss it as, "Are you drunk?". Your comment is just the sort of thing I'd say to a random stranger in the pub, which is why I'm barred from every pub within a 2 metre vicinity of my house.

I was prepared, and changed my bedroom clock this morning, in anticipation of tomorrow. However I can't reach my kitchen clock, so rely on saying to my husband 107 times during the day, "Have you moved on the kitchen clock yet?"

@Dreadnought77

Anyone who says it doesn’t matter to older or retired people are idiots

We are ALL in some way conditioned to wake at certain hours, whether it’s for the newspaper to be delivered, the cat to feed or just because we wake up at that time historically.

Altering the bloody clocks, drives us all a little bit mad.

Have some empathy people.

Bloody idiots

FFS, have you even read what you’ve written?

My mum had the Pfizer jab recently and said she wouldn't have minded having the AZ one instead, because that way she might have had some side effects and could stay in bed all day. When I pointed out that she's retired and could stay in bed all day without being ill if she wants she didn't have a response

For my parents(born 1940ish), being thought of as lazy is probably the worst thing anyone could lay at their door.

Time can sometimes be on your side (is that a song?). As a twin, who's always been 10 minutes older, I was thrilled to be able to contact my sister from across the Atlantic and say, "You're now 50 - I won't be for another eight hours."

The clock change is a pain when we "spring forward". It can take me up to a week for my body to adjust. It just isnt easy for some people, and for others its no big deal. As for your mother saying that, I think its just something people like to say.

Some people do struggle with clocks changing, even if they don't have children.

Even if the clock may say 7am but my body says 6am and that feels really shit on a Sunday morning! Especially when I'm one of those people who can't fall back to sleep very easily.

I’ll be that person and say
Your not losing an hour per say, you’ll get it back in October 😂

Yesterday a DJ said we get an extra hour of daylight

Those countries which call it Daylight Saving really annoy me. It doesn't 'save' any daylight. It would be a bit like if you were cold you didn't put an extra layer on, but made the thermometer read a few degrees more.

Oh yes, my mum will be out of sorts all week as a result of the clocks going forward! It's lucky she never really got into long haul travel!!

@en0la

A woman at work has been moanjng about how it takes her children about two weeks to adjust to the time difference. They are teenagers

Ha!

Oh, thinking so fondly of the days when the autumn clocks going back meant you got an extra hour in a nightclub. Another world.

I love long summer evenings...

But I also love going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark.

Maybe I'm odd? 🤭

Takes me a bit to get used to it. Hated trying to switch littles body clocks sorted.

@TheOrigRights

True fact - the clocks went forward on the 27th March 1999 which was a Saturday. I know this because I was giving birth at the time and someone climbed on the bed, took the clock down and shunted it forward.

True fact - the stated duration of my labour is an hour longer than it actually was.

Anyway, I am feeling very clever because I've ordered my click and collect an hour later than normal tomorrow morning.

I once flew long haul the night the clocks went back - before mobile phones. It messed with my head. Fly for n hours, turn back clock n hours, turn it back 1 more hour, wake a stupid o'clock due to jet leg. I literally had NO idea what the hell time it was.

Happy birthday to your dd/ds trhn 😀

If you work or have to get children to school, you do lose the hour on Sunday night.

I'm ancient enough to remember the experiment when we didn't change the clocks and stayed in summer time, I thought it was great and I wished that they had made it permanent.

Oh yes I have this too - every single time. I also have the continued moaning about how ridiculously busy the supermarket is on a Saturday. The fact that they are retired and none of this matters too them goes right over their head..

I’m in the US so our clocked changed a few weeks ago. Sunday was fine, but getting up for 6am (really 5am) in the pitch black on the Monday morning was brutal

Yep. DM who is late 70s is exactly the same and always moans about it. She can stay in bed as long as she likes any day of the year.

My son was in year 2 before he knew about clock changing as I just put them back when he was asleep forward the next day when he wasn’t looking.

On the positive. My clock in my car will be right again tomorrow.

Well my bloody kids get up earlier when if gets lighter so yes definitely true for me!

From 0730 to 0630!

Tbh the hardest part about the clocks changing is figuring out which clocks have put themselves forward automatically and which ones need manually resetting.

I always have a "default" analogue clock that I don't change so that I can go around the flat and compare every clock to it and change the ones showing the same time