To feel like this clock change has knocked me for six?!

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Just sitting chilling and watching TV, thought to myself “well I’m ready for bed, time to head on up” looked at the clock, it’s just gone half eight!🤦‍♀️
Bloody Hell!😂 it never usually gets me this bad…

People who work night shifts, when the clocks go back - what happens? Do you finish an hour earlier or do you work an extra hour?

if it’s the latter, that is like actual torture!

Yes. We don't get daylight till 8.30/9 some days in the deepest, darkest bit of winter

Your house sounds interesting 😂

I used to do nursing shifts and work a night club job at one point. Worked the extra hour in both (and worked one hour less in spring). Was paid for the extra hour

My cat didn’t get it either, or more probably he rolled the memo into a ball and chased it around until he lost it under the sofa.

It's confused our cat, who is begging for food an hour early.

I was going to say I prefer the autumn time change to spring - we get an extra hour. But actually, it gets dark earlier, while in the spring evenings are suddenly lighter. So spring is better!

I wish they wouldn't call Summer Time Daylight Saving Time. It doesn't make a scrap of difference to the amount of daylight you get.

Not all countries do it - it's nonsense in equitorial and arctic countries - but it doesn't stop all of them.

I wish they’d leave things as they were and just stick with lighter evenings.

Are you normally ready for your sleep at 9.30pm then? That seems early.

Hasn't made much difference to me tbh. Especially as we gained an hours sleep. I still can't see the point in putting them back/forward though. I think it needs binning.

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Yes. Night shifters work an hour MORE when clocks go back.

And one hour LESS when they go forward.

I know several people who work nights and they say the extra hour when the clocks go back is a killer!

I don’t understand the gaining an hours sleep thing… unless you work Sundays or have toddlers, why does it matter. I just wake up when I wake up on weekends. I don’t have a set time to get up.

I don't know why they still do it, I find it really really annoying.

Or double BST in the summer

Spring forward, {Move clocks forward an hour}
Fall back {Turn clocks back an hour}

That's how I remember it .

Wish they'd leave us on BST though.

I’m in Scotland and wish they would leave the clocks alone, I don’t mind them going back in autumn but hate the spring forward.
The lighter mornings in autumn only last a few weeks anyway.
There were a few years in the 1970s they dropped the clock changing and it was a relief, but apparently there were more accidents in the dark mornings if I recall, so why don’t they make it GMT, all year round.

To be honest, it doesn't normally bother me in the slightest, but today I've felt like it should be later all day. Usually I just adapt immediately and it's fine. But I suppose I'll reset my body clock overnight and it'll all be fine again in the morning (apart from the godawful dark evenings though).

I wish that was me. How nice to be happy to go to bed that early, you'll get a really good night sleep and still a bit of a lie in, in the morning.

Every year I hope I'll reset myself to an earlier night and get up early - but no, here I am still at 11.30.

But yes, I hate the darker evenings and losing the sun (if there is any) by early/mid afternoon.

I hate GMT. I have advanced sleep circadian rhythm in the winter time so the clocks going back is a double whammy. If anything I’d like them to go forwards for the winter.

Me too but not good for kids walking to school in the dark.

That's because we're now out of bst!

Whilst I hate the dark evenings that the clock change brings, and I can understand shift workers working through that night, but otherwise why is it such a big deal.

It’s one hour change for goodness sake.

Had me in stitches 😂

@Bogginsthe3rd indeed - I'm just going to bed right now and was up at 9.30 this morning- the bonus of no kids at home!!

I'm sure they tried not putting them back. But it meant children were walking to school in the dark. Which I'm sure you'll agree you don't want your young DC doing when they start making their own way to school.