To be surprised people think the clocks are going back?

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

Back in Winter. Forward in Spring.

It's been happening for years.😏

I was flying when the clocks did their thing once. Woke up jet lagged the following morning and had no clue if it was 4am (too early to get up), 5am (still early but not worth trying to get back to sleep) or 6am (just a regular early start).

We have plans due to a child birthday and a trip out due to such so no lay in regardless doing Mother’s Day personally Saturday but it does mean young child will
be more tired for the event they want.

I’ve spoken to 3 people this who thought the clock change had already happened this spring….. I was like ‘but it hasn’t happened because you know , it hasn’t happened’

Oh yeah! My bad 😁

Thank the Lord because it's being driving me nuts not knowing what the time is in the UK for the last 3 weeks since ours changed!

No worries. Taken about 30 years to get all the pros and cons of early starts to early nights. I’ve had early starting jobs, my own kids and failing eyesight.
I’d keep it BST and stop the winter change.

I did mine last week, and Mothering Sunday. FML.

Spring forward. Fall back. Yes I know we say Autumn in the UK but still.

Fall forward and spring back is what I always say

If it’s new then it should change itself. Ours does and its 6 years old.

Ooh really, it's not brand new just new to me, it's nearly 4 years old , my last car was a 13 year old Citroen so not many bells and whistles!

Because it makes no sense. Why do you spring forward and not back? Depends what’s happening surely? Fall back is a military expression I suppose, but otherwise you are just as likely to fall forward as back.

I was getting the manual ready to change it as I can’t do with it being wrong then realised it was the same time as my watch/phone etc…happy days. I turn my cooker and microwave off at the wall after use so never have the clock set on them.

It’s not. I think springing back makes much more sense - like if something surprises you. I know it’s forward this time but that stupid saying makes it harder to remember.

In mid summer in Scotland you only get about 1.5 hours of full deep darkness (it’s dark but big fully fig most of the night) . I remember being on annual leave during lockdown (June) and watching box sets one night. I headed to bed at 4.25 and it was almost fully light. I was a bit surprised.

Because its safer than kids going to school in the dark in the morning. They did an experiment from 1968 for three years keeping the summer time. It was a disaster in Scotland and the north for farmers and kids as it wasn’t light till nearly 10am in some places . I remember going to school in the dark and hating it. Fine for the south of England but not elsewhere so it was changed back.

I used to work on ships and we'd have time changes all the time so it's completely thrown me now. I worry almost every night that the time will be different in the morning lol. Deep rooted fear from getting it wrong a few times

But the mornings are stupidly late even in summer (weather doesn’t help).

In the south mornings are never later than 8am. Scotland and and it’s still night at 8am in the winter.

Because if we stayed on BST in winter, it wouldn’t get light until 9am in Southern England, and 10:30am in some parts of Scotland! It would be awful!

They experimented with using BST all year round for a few years in the 70s, and there was a big increase in the number of children hit by cars on the way to school.

Thanks that is interesting to know that they tried it...we could like other countries of course have 2 time zones....

I’d personally prefer GMT the whole year round.

It’s always the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October that the clocks change. Once I realised that, it was easy to remember.

It drives me nuts when people correct me saying clocks forward or back because I mean the clocks will change and will obviously not move them the wrong way!

Oh crap! Thanks for the reminder. An hour less sleep, just what I need!

I think people know the clocks are changing (except I didn’t), and they don’t really think about what the specific words imply. Clocks going back rolls off the tongue more easily and than clocks going forward. I don’t think they actually think they are going back, it’s just what they say.

What an amazing mother's day gift 🎁.

In Sweden we say
"In the spring we put the garden furniture out ('forward'), and in the autumn/fall we put the garden furniture back." (Bad translation, but anyway.)