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…

I went to bed early and now wide awake at midnight.

This is the good one though! The one with a lie in.

I get the best feeling of everything being back to rights when the clocks go back.

If we could go back two hours from that awful BST that would be bliss.

Absolutely not.

We need GMT and an hour behind it, if anything.

I spend the whole summer knowing I’m owed another hour of morning sleep.

Shift the school time to an hour later. Not everyone should suffer.

I'm all over the shop because I've been on holiday with a time difference, back a few hours and now it's changed to another one 😂 Plus I've lost loads of daylight hours all of a sudden because it was getting dark at 8pm abroad!!

Me too I hate when clocks go back. Just stick with BST.

Honestly, as someone in Scotland I'd rather they didn't do it. I'd much rather have the daylight in the evening. It's thrown me off entirely and I'm still wide awake.

Seconded! I hate it all too

its bizarre, I’m usually quite a late to bed type of person so I’m often up til gone 11pm!
thats why I’m so bemused, the clock change never really bothers me but this time it’s really got me for some reason.
Anyway I decided to try and ride it out as I knew if I slept too early I’d be wide awake at 4am so stayed awake til 10.30 then went to bed with a splitting headache.

My ex worked weekends as part of his shift pattern, he did this one time and got to work 2 hours early😂 and as it was a Sunday nothing was open so he had to sit in the car😂😂😂

I slept like a log last night after two bad night sleeps.

Not just you! I was gone on the sofa last night at 8pm 🤣

I woke at 5.30. Partly thanks to the cat who is used to us getting up at 6.30 during term time. While I am still at work this week I didn't actually need to get up until 7. I was also up v early yesterday. Normally it's the kids that take time to adjust, but they've both strolled down just after 7 which is normal for them when not at school.

What I meant is we're now back to 'normal', ie GMT time. Which in Scotland and Ireland means brighter mornings in the winter, and dark around 4.30 pm in the depths of midwinter, stretching to 5.00 pm by end of January. What if the UK and Ireland stayed on GMT all year round rather than pushing the clocks on an hour in March? Wasn't it just a wartime innovation that became permanent?

When I was working I hated this time of year. Hated being in the office after dark, being able to see nothing through the windows but the office reflected back at me. Made me feel really trapped and anxious. So much better now I’m retired.

I love the clocks going back an hour. I mean, an extra hour in bed and it getting dark earlier is the dream! I really hate light evenings, messes with my body clock so bad and I spend all spring/summer an exhausted mess.

I feel so much better already!

When the clocks go forward I seem to get really bad jet lag.

I always thought that we go an hour back to GMT in winter otherwise kids would be travelling to school in the dark.

That's teenage boys for you 😂

As I don't have young children these days, I love the October clock change as it means the mornings are lighter. However thanks to perimenopause/menopause I'm not sleeping very well at the moments (also I suspect due to the abnormally warm night time temps) so I haven't got the normal energy surge from the lighter mornings that I usually get.

I do feel for those with little ones though.

I don't understand this extra hour thing. If your body is used to 8 hour sleep, you won't suddenly sleep 9 hours. Maybe for some people but not for all.
Also, when you have other responsibilities like kids, pets or a job, you cannot sleep that extra hour.

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I’ve kids and pets but because of midterm we were all up late so it worked out here!!

edited to add haven’t gotten 8 hours in years, more a healthy 6😅

I wish it would stop too.

And, yes, I live in Northern Scotland.

We leave the house in the dark in the morning anyway. I would far rather have a light afternoon til 4.30pm.

Long gone are the days most children walked to school at 8.45am with their Mums!

I always feel a sense of relief when they go back. They need to stop with the BST.

Long gone are the days most children walked to school at 8.45am with their Mums!

I know where I am (NI) many older children leave the house to get buses at 7.45- 8.30; they certainly would be at much greater risk if they were walking around in the dark if BST was permanent. But I suspect there's an east/west divide over this.

This could be the only referendum I could get behind. I'd be in the sticking to BST camp. Hate the dark evenings. Gaining an hour daylight from 6 rather than 7 is pointless. Having to squeeze in walking the dog before dark all winter is deeply irritating. Should be a national vote on it.