Clock changes

[MsJD]

To think that the clocks could go forward by 1 minute every week between winter solstice and summer solstice and back 1 minute between the summer solstice and the winter solstice.

Twice a year is more than enough to be changing clocks

Exactly this too stressful changing clocks more often 🥴

What would be the purpose of it?

Why?

Are you bored?

No.too confusing. Twice a year is confusing enough.

Nah.

No thanks. Forget to manually change mine twice a year? be fucked if I had to change it every week.

OP you really haven’t thought things through … train timetables, etc, are problematic enough without that palaver!

I'm still changing clocks around the home. My own fault I suppose for possessing so many feckin clocks! 🤣

So that would only be 26
mins instead of an hour and an absolutely massive pain in the arse. No thanks.

Some people just worship chaos

No. Akso very unfair on the elderly who would struggle to do this weekly.

The inventor of BST, William Willet, originally proposed to move the clocks by 80 minutes, in four 20 minute increments each Sunday in April, and the reverse in September.

As said, you haven't thought it through re transport. Also online games were each day is set. I know that I've now got an extra hour when I'm on a challenge. To fit in with global timetables, it wouldn't work.

vonnie

good point well made. So 2 mins every Sunday at 2am.

I could see how that would work.

The problem is the rest of the world does it by hours not parts of hours (with the odd exception) so internationally it would be very confusing.

I normally get up at 8 - 30. Today I didnt get up until 10. Its too much of a change in 1 go. IMO.

I wish they'd leave well alone. It gets harder every year.

pussycatinfluffyslippers

Isnt that the whole point of Brexit, we can do our own thing from now on?

Where do I start with that comment?

1. Brexit was a really ill-thought out "plan" - to quit a trading group and say "fuck you" to our nearest neighbours, with no idea of how we were going to move forwards.
2. Just because we think we can do something different doesn't mean we should.
3. We still have to trade with non-European countries who work, generally, to GMT (+ or - whatever hrs depending on where they are globally).

I must be strange, or lucky anyway, because these days my body adjusts naturally to the change in daylight in the weeks leading up to the clocks changing, both in spring and in autumn, so physically changing the clocks is just a formality for me.

I do remember worrying a bit about clock changes when I had babies though, because of the knock-on effect I thought it would have on their routine, but in reality it was never as bad as I expected, and they always adjusted within a few days.

Me too, @Oldnproud and my cats! We tend to wake earlier from Feb - it's almost like we "know" we need to adjust, so it makes it a more gentle process.

I have the same routine twice a year. The clocks go back and forward around 2am, so on the Saturday evening beforehand, at around 8pm I alter all the clocks/watches appropriately and we gradually accustom ourselves to it during that evening. I know it sounds daft, but it really does make a difference and you hardly notice it when you get up the following morning. The Alexas, iPads/phones, car, and our landline phone clocks all do themselves so we do our best to ignore those throughout the evening. Try it when the clocks go back in October. Might make things easier for you if it stresses you.

I must be strange, or lucky anyway, because these days my body adjusts naturally to the change in daylight in the weeks leading up to the clocks changing, both in spring and in autumn, so physically changing the clocks is just a formality for me.

I don't think you are strange, or lucky. Most people just get on with it, it's only the usual moaners who can't cope, and even they forget about it after a while. Even my cats can cope with the change - in fact they somehow seem to know that it's happened.