To be surprised people think the clocks are going back?

[girlfriend44]

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

Back in Winter. Forward in Spring.

It's been happening for years.😏

I literally count down the days to the clocks changing in spring. I love the lighter evenings.

it doesn't really make much sense, though, if you think about it. Not only because nobody in the UK says 'fall' anymore, but you can fall forward as easily as falling backwards. If anything most people trip when they're moving, and as people walk forwards they are going to fall forwards far more!

And a spring goes up and down and forwards and backwards!

Spring back, fall forward is just as viable as a mnemonic.

It always amuses me that this has been happening since about 1913 or something but people still claim to be utterly shocked and WTF that the clocks go forward in spring and back in autumn. It’s in your calendar on your phone these days even. And my Facebook will still be full of numpties claiming they knew nothing about it and are so confused and can’t understand what’s happening. Lol.

Never really works as you can also spring back and fall forward?!

I'm still bitter about the wedding I went to many years ago and getting to bed at 5am having just realised the breakfast that only served until 10.30 was now 9.30 in our body clock.

We have a taxi ordered for 6:30 am on Sunday morning. I hope it comes at the "new" 6:30am and not an hour later!

Our grandson was born two hours before the clocks went back last October. If he had appeared a bit later, they would presumably have had to write down his time of birth as "1:35am, the first" (or the second), because there were two 1:35am's on that day. On the other hand, nobody will be born at 1:35 am this coming Saturday night/Sunday morning...

The rest of my team is in California, working out which of us needs to be an hour earlier or later during the two or three weeks in spring and autumn when our time difference isn’t the usual 8hours because their clocks change at a different time to us can be weirdly difficult - and we’re all highly numerate! One of my managers once called me two hours early.
Fortunately nowadays computer calendars work properly across time zones taking this into account.

As has been pointed out, it’s right in the middle of daylight hours - literally mid day.
I think before electric lights people would have tended to get up and go to bed earlier, more in line with natural daylight. Many farmers still do, don’t they? Why most of us sleep through sunny mornings only to stay awake in the dark mystifies me - it annoys me that I do it, I keep meaning to try to shift my days to be more symmetrical and not waste the mornings yet here I am still awake at nearly midnight. bonkers.😂

I don’t know why people don’t get it. The only way for summer evenings to get lighter is for the clocks to go forward. How would the clocks going back do that?

This. Can’t remember when I last reset a clock.
I’ve never worked out how the car clock resets itself.

Especially when it is still rugby season. One hour earlier up, because no matter how much they even promuse they are doing breakfast in bed, I don't want it.

Up and out without bother, preferably without waking me (this bit is pipe dream). Play rugby. See granny if you like. Give me a wee morning off!

In June, it's light at 4.30am everywhere in UK.

Eh?

It doesn't all miraculously change when you cross the border though. I live in Cumbria and there's less difference in sunset/sunrise times between me and my sister, who lives halfway up Scotland, and my son, who lives close to the south coast.

Spring back, fall forward is just as viable as a mnemonic.

Not really. Cats, lions etc "spring forward" to catch prey. "Spring back" doesn't sound right.

"Fall back" is an army command.

Ditto. I couldn't be arsed with changing it for months, until one day there was a power cut and the cooker was constantly flashing 0:00. That forced my hand in the end.

My dad was a teacher, and he once told me a story of a girl who'd come into school an hour late and her mother had come into the classroom and said to him "Don't laugh. Someone told us that it was this weekend that the clocks changed." (This was something like 3 weeks before they did - I did wonder ages afterwards if this family had been told the American date.)

It was years later when I thought about that story again and wondered how this family had made it as far as the Monday morning without catching on to their mistake. Didn't they notice anything like the Sunday TV schedules being out of whack? Or was this just me seeing it through a "today" lens (this incident had happened in the early 90s, so they wouldn't have had smartphones that changed by themselves).

'Spring forward, fall back'.

Spring forward (you are losing an hour), Fall back (you are gaining an hour).

Spring forward and fall back. Easy to remember.

Dont get me started in how mad it makes me that this just happens to be done at the same time as Mothers Day. I know MD came first, but you can bet your sweet ass that if Fathers Day had been a thing and it happened in March then the clock change wouldnt happen until sodding April!

Totally agree, I am sick of hearing that stupid saying. How anyone can not know about this or how it works without using Americanisms is beyond me.

Its quite simple, the clocks always go forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October. There is nothing tricky or ambiguous about that.

This is not something I normally have any difficulty with, but this year it is slightly more complicated. DH and I are on holiday in NZ so have had to keep reminding ourselves of the 13 hour time difference when contacting family in the UK. Just got used to that then we have to remember UK going on to BST so the gap will only be 12 hours. Until next weekend when NZ clocks go back an hour so time difference will shrink to 11 hours! Bound to get it wrong at some point and WhatsApp someone inappropriately early. Or late.

"ONward Christian soldiers, MARCHing as to war"......

I think changing the time is difference, and I don't with the different time zones around the world. Everyone should use GMT.