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.😏

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.

I think it gets confusing because the dates for Mother’s Day and Easter do move. It’s easy to lose track of what’s happening when as it’s different every year.

On a slightly different note to that it always makes me smile that some people get up really late at the weekend/when off work. You get up early every day for someone else, why not get up for yourself

Spring forward, ie with a spring in your step as the sunnier days are coming. Also people know they are getting more daylight, so makes no sense they’d be going back.

I had this with a supplier, who realised later that day they had got it wrong.

This arcane practice should end in any case. The only conversation should be about whether it is BST all year round, or GMT all year round. I prefer BST as I think you can make more use of daylight in the afternoon, and since much heavy industry closed in the UK, fewer people start work early in the morning.

It's normally written as '01:35 BST' or '01:35 GMT' if something official needs to be recorded in one of the 'duplicate hours' in October, so I presume that would be how a birth would be recorded.

Nice for people to get an extra hour's worth of birthday every few years when it falls on Sunday if they are born the week the clocks go back.

But their schools could just change the start time?

Wow, that would be fun for people in Australia 😆

I might say back but I mean forward

And I might say forward but I mean back

I often get things opposite way round

I know that they're changing thats all

Yeah it's not complicated is it?🤣

''Most people'

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You can't speak for most people to speak for yourself,

It's such a pointless exercise that causes so much hassle. It messes with my body clock for ages and no perimenopausal woman needs that. Good luck to the parents of small children trying to persuade them to go to sleep an hour earlier.

BST was introduced in WW1 as a fuel-saving move for the factories, etc. WW1 finished in 1918 so I think we're good now.

We don't need BST in Scotland as there are so many hours of daylight in summer as it is and some nights it doesn't even get properly dark at all (and I'm not even that far North).

Spring forward... just think of the Easter bunny bounding forward with your goodies!!

well, if you're old enough pogo sticks and hopper balls, we sprang forward on all of them!!

No one springs backwards!!

March forward. Fall back

I agree @OverdueBooks

more heart attacks, strokes and car accidents have been recorded with the clocks going forward.

yes Great Britain introduced it after Bismark introduced it in Germany during WWI. He wanted that extra hour of war wongering production in his factories.

seeing we are largely a serviced based economy now, do we really need all those employees slugging their guts out working that extra hour so that the more well off can play their golf, tennis, drink and eat out that little bit longer.

I live in Scotland. Yes my days go on forever during summer and there is a period where it feels like it never gets dark
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we should stick with GMT

Oh my goodness, you are so smart 🤩

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

But surely once you’ve heard “Spring forward, fall back” you know? You just have to remember it, not prove the validity of the mnemonic in court.

It isn’t the same as Mothers Day every year though. It only is this year because Easter is so late. Mother’s Day is the fourth Sunday of lent, hour change is last Sunday in March. Those are not usually the same day.

I’m not a cat or a lion. I mostly spring back when I drop knives etc or someone startles me. Neither am I a soldier.

I know which happens when - what I’m saying is the ‘helpful’ saying is anything but.

The dates for Mothers’ Day and Easter aren’t connected to the hour change.

Because I don’t like getting up early. I stay in bed for myself because I like a lie in.

Eh? You don’t “get up for someone else” as a favour to them - you do it because you have to go to work and get paid! What does “get up for yourself” even mean? If people want to get up early, they can - surely anyone who doesn’t simply doesn’t want to!

I know.
I was explaining the reason why it may tricky and ambiguous to some.🙄
Other dates in March do change every year so the connection to the last weekend in March isn’t as obvious.

There’d lots of birthdays in March ( set date moveable day ) whereas Mothers Day is always a Sunday but moveable date and this year Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday appeared in March not February,
So yes people get muddled.

I’m planning on solving the ‘hour less sleep’ problem by going to bed an hour earlier. Maybe if everyone changed their clocks on a Saturday evening rather than it happening in the small hours people would be happier on the Sunday? Added bonus is you could miss some truly crap TV

Well yes, but Spring forward Autumn back doesn't really work as a phrase, does it?! And obviously you know what fall means, so I don't see the problem.