What are you doing with the extra hour tonight?

[YourPolitePoster]

It’s that time of year again! The clocks are going back an hour at 2am, so we all get an “extra” hour tonight. Are you planning to make the most of it with a lie-in, or maybe use it productively?

Are you working, sleeping, catching up on something, or doing something you wouldn’t normally have time for?

Would love to hear everyone’s plans for the bonus time!

You still have to be there at 8am, it is just that what was 9am is now 8am so you got an extra hour of sleep if your alarm goes off in the morning. So it gets lighter and darker earlier now.

I hate the clocks changing, it throws me out.

@Moonshiners

spring forward
fall back

so now in autumn the clocks go back. At 2am or in the morning if you have any manual clocks/watches you turn it back an hour (but most things change themselves these days, so watch you don't double it!). So what would have been 8am this morning will now be 7am.

so 8am tomorrow, will be 9 am in current/old time! Good news for you!

I'd love a lay in. But I have a baby so I'll probably just be up at 5am instead of 6am!

Hope so. I've worked nights on both forwards and back and my hours in March would be 11. And my hours in October would be 13. My dh is working till 3am but I'm not sure if he's getting paid an extra hour or not.

Toddler and I will have an extra hour of coughing ourselves awake 🫤

Neighbours dog wanted his at 5 am this morning (& does most mornings). I can hardly wait for him asking for it at 4am. And I don't even get the cuteness/cuddles to make up for it!!

Sleeping, I hope! Although I have 7 month old twins and toddler DS so I’m sure I’ll be up an hour earlier thank usual. I can’t wait for the fun of sleep adjustment this next week 😂😂

Excited because my cctv time will only be 12 minutes behind instead of 1hr and 12 minutes or is it in front? I've never managed to work out how to change the time and my neighbour has the same system and she can't work out how to change the time either. Actually we are both excited about it 😀.

There's still an extra hour. Just because you're not asleep doesn't mean there isn't one. So, in your case, the extra hour would be spent either watching morning tele, doing chores, going for a walk, an extra hour in the park.. or whatever you're doing tomorrow. You still get an extra hour.

Sleeping!

You lose it in March, actually.

I'm a mum to a toddler...I don't think I'll be fortunate enough to enjoy the bonus hour 😂

But if you’ve already used your extra hour having the second wine, then you no longer have a spare hour for your night sweat 🤣

I'll be enjoying an extra cup of tea in bed tmrw

🤣 god this

Oh balls 🙁🤦🏼‍♀️

Working an hour for free on nightshift!

Hopefully sleep for an extra hour after one of the worst weeks ever… contrast to last year where I was working nights as an emergency social worker and did a 13 hour shift overnight (instead of 12) 😆

I'll be feeding the sheep, pigs, goats and chickens who will fail to grasp the time difference! 😂

@ManchesterLu yes, your right if you are counting time in the hours humans put on it. But in terms of when it get light and when it gets dark, time just does it's own thing. It's not about to bend itself to our rules.

Waiting for the party to finish next door probably🙄. AGAIN!

@AutumnLeaves24 @AlisonDonut
Thank you. That makes sense and hurray!

Sleep in! I mean that’s surely what it’s for?

Not worry so much about staying up a little bit later tonight (just watching telly but I like the quite time when everyone else is in bed!)

I’m so happy to be past the early years of very small children where you get no benefit from this, the greatest of all days in the year.

I’m sorry for everyone doing a night shift and not getting paid any extra 😢 How mean!

I need to fit this in to my theory about how we ought to keep the going back hour in the night, but as a kindness to workers, have the forward hour in the spring during the working day.

Working out what the difference means is even more fun if you work with people in the US as their daylight savings doesn't change in sync with Europe. It used to be bizarrely difficult to work out who needed to change a meeting time in which direction before we had electronic calendars which can sort it out. So my usual four o'clock will be a three o'clock this Monday.