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To be surprised people think the clocks are going back?

178 replies

girlfriend44 · 28/03/2025 19:29

Seen quite a few saying clocks are going back this weekend.😂

Back in Winter. Forward in Spring.

It's been happening for years.😏

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SmallFiresBurning · 28/03/2025 20:39

Bollocks. I’m working Sunday, I’ll be grouchy AF 😖

BatshitCrazyWoman · 28/03/2025 20:41

ToKittyornottoKitty · 28/03/2025 19:36

I don’t think it makes much difference to many people’s lives, particularly as the clocks change themselves now. So it’s easy to forget which way they go.

I wish my oven clock would bloody change itself!

ChorusOfDisapproval · 28/03/2025 20:42

Forward March! is how I always remember it.

Starseeking · 28/03/2025 20:42

I never know which way they are going so I just say “the clocks are changing this weekend” every time it happens.

Sinkintotheswamp · 28/03/2025 20:42

Oh God, the car clock.

vandelle · 28/03/2025 20:53

I'd settle for it being bright in the evenings for a little longer in Winter. How those in charge of the little clocks and watches figure out how to do that I don't know! But it seems to me that it gets bright far too early in the mornings and dark far too early in the evenings from November onwards.

I don't like that. Far too depressing. We have enough problems as it is...

Tigergirl80 · 28/03/2025 21:02

Wishful thinking they’re going to get an extra hour in bed. On Mother’s Day of all days we lose an hour.😂😂😂

SwanOfThoseThings · 28/03/2025 21:05

I'm looking forward to the car clock being right for the next 7 months 😀

soundsys · 28/03/2025 21:07

applegrumbling · 28/03/2025 19:35

Spring forward, fall back!

My husband tells me this every time, but as you can also fall forward and spring back it helps me not at all 😂

ToKittyornottoKitty · 28/03/2025 21:09

soundsys · 28/03/2025 21:07

My husband tells me this every time, but as you can also fall forward and spring back it helps me not at all 😂

Remind yourself it’s an American phrase

YourLoftyCyanZebra · 28/03/2025 21:13

UndermyShoeJoe · 28/03/2025 19:30

I mean most people just wish they wouldn’t bloody change.

So often the first post nails it, I don't particularly care how dark it is when I wake, I care about the changes

Titsywoo · 28/03/2025 21:13

I saw one young man on social media who was convinced that England may be going forward a hour but Scotland was definitely going back 😄

Mayflyoff · 28/03/2025 21:16

I really don't understand the forwards/back terminology, despite being capable in many other ways. I remember it as an extra hour in bed in autumn and one less hour in bed in spring, made up for by the coming of summer.

TheCurious0range · 28/03/2025 21:21

Oh no I got a new car in December. I had my last car 7 years and only learned how to change the clock about 18 months ago. Here's to a summer of mentally deducting an hour

NooNakedJacuzziness · 28/03/2025 21:22

I wish they went forward at 4pm on a Friday evening - at least we could finish work early and it wouldn’t eat into the weekend

RaspberryCombat · 28/03/2025 21:23

Bogginsthe3rd · 28/03/2025 20:07

It's spring back and fall forwards for anyone struggling to remember. (Fall = late summer in American)

Amazing

Manxexile · 28/03/2025 21:24

I always think it's fall forward, spring back....

Isometimeswonder · 28/03/2025 21:24

Try doing shift work.
Especially a night shift in autumn when clocks go back!

rosemarble · 28/03/2025 21:26

Tigergirl80 · 28/03/2025 21:02

Wishful thinking they’re going to get an extra hour in bed. On Mother’s Day of all days we lose an hour.😂😂😂

Yippee, early football match for DS2 is even earlier……
Ah well, if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be a Mother.

Actually that’s not true. I could have stopped at DS1.

rosemarble · 28/03/2025 21:28

I was giving birth 26 years ago when the clocks went forward. Someone actually climbed on the bed to get the clock down.

The length of my labour is documented as an hour longer than it actually was.

PrettayGood · 28/03/2025 21:29

We just don’t think about it, and wake up at our natural time. The dog will be looking for breakfast at the original time, but we’re not in uk at mo, so that’s someone else’s problem.

Overhaul54 · 28/03/2025 21:29

Createausername1970 · 28/03/2025 19:48

Agreed, but which way would you leave them?

Constant Summer time would mean it starting to getting dark around around 3.pm onwards in the winter. Possibly leading to more accidents around school leaving time.

Constant GMT would mean it would start to get dark around 8.30 in the evening in the summer, and dawn would occur about 2.30 a.m.

Both alternatives are problematic, which is why they started being changed, I believe.

That’s not right.
Its going back an hour in October that gives us dark at 4pm.
I think the dark morning is less miserable than an early night ( Scotland is very much darker than the south of England). But we are used to dark mornings burning away. There’s no positives to dark at 4pm.

TwoeightTwoeightTwoOhhhh · 28/03/2025 21:31

But…. The clocks are going back? Back to what they were… which is forward an hour…
😆

Theunamedcat · 28/03/2025 21:32

There are people convinced Scotland isn't part of the UK and therfore don't need to change their clocks they also don't have a Scottish accent I suspect they are trolling

rosemarble · 28/03/2025 21:32

…and we get a couple of weeks of not knowing (even more) what the hell time it is in different parts of the US.
Will I miss the call, will I be an hour early? You have to check if the clever computer calendars have worked it all out.