Clock change should not be allowed on Mothering Sunday ...

[Obvs92]

Just that really. Where's my lie-in!!!!

It's fall towards (as if you tripped) and spring back (in surprise). It always helps me to remember that Fall is late summer in American.

Spring forward, fall back... clocks went forward...

I thought it was spring forward, as the clocks go forward in spring.
*crosspost

Last year it was on Easter Sunday.

I mentioned this on another thread - until 1995 the wording of the legislation ruled it out from happening on Easter Sunday - if the last Sunday in March was Easter Sunday, it would happen a week early.

The current legislation means that it happens on the last Sunday of March regardless.

If no exception is made for Easter Sunday, it's unlikely one would be considered for Mothers' Day, but you could always write to your MP. The present system is legacy EU legislation (pending the EU's bid to have all their members on a single time year-round) but since we have left it's in our hands now and the UK could pass new legislation if it wanted.

Which is incidentally, in my opinion, literally the only benefit of having left the EU.

Most people can't just fall asleep to order, surely? Or is that just me??

Spring forwards, fall back.

This is exactly how I felt.

It's more of a pain now DCs are teens (oldest has a job we need to get them to). It doesn't help that DC1 also had a birthday party to attend last night so needed picking up - which meant no early nights.

I can't complain too much though, DH and DC2 are currently making pancakes for breakfast.

It's not the first time I can remember this happening. I think it's pretty rubbish, too.

Other way round. In March you fall forwards into the longer days.

Spare a thought for those of us in work on clock change day😅😅😅😅 Goddammit!!!!

Surely an hour makes no difference? Shifting from 11pm to 10pm?

I think anyone who gets worked up about this doesn't have enough real problems in their life.

My DH set his alarm to make sure he got up with our DC this morning. He’s now tired and grumpy as he is NOT a morning person. Appreciate the gesture, but I was awake anyway as I am a morning person and our toddler is incandescent with rage, as he wanted me, not Daddy 😬

"Fall forwards into longer days" makes no sense! 🤷‍♂️

Surely Spring Forwards because the clocks go Forwards, Fall Back because in the US Autumn is called "Fall"?

That's how I have always remembered it and I have never been confused as to how the clocks move.

You need to change your mindset on this, op, and use it to your advantage.

I am fully intending to have a full 24 hours of mothering Sunday by claiming my missing hour later on the week.

Well I’ve been counting down the days to lighter days evenings, so this is the BEST Mother’s Day present I could have asked for (and also because the kids have slept 8 hours, like they sleep 8 hours every night and haven’t somehow rewired their brains to only sleep 7 hours because of an arbitrary clock change…)

I wondered why I’m so tired. I woke up at 6 but really it was 5!

I didn’t even know the clocks had changed. Because everything is digital now I don’t go through those first few days adapting (when you had to change every clock and watch in the house).

Every clock change day I rewatch this. Makes me giggle every time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=51UpEKX39ZY

Edit to explain it’s a mock trailer for a film about daylight savings…

Both DC had to start work at 6am this morning so I feel much more sorry for them!

I was able to just wake whenever, no alarm set.

I will be more glad of the extra hour of daylight at the end of the day as it’s a lovely sunny day here today

It is absolutely comparable - it’s the clocks changing. Your children won’t suddenly wake an hour earlier just because the clocks change. My children have been getting up around 6AM over winter. This morning they woke at 7AM = the same amount of sleep.

@Bogginsthe3rd I hope you haven’t “sprung back” today, or your clocks will be completely wrong!

It’s Spring forwards (meaning the clocks go forwards in the spring ie now).
Fall back (meaning the clocks go back in Fall, which is the American word for autumn)

SwanOfThoseThings Mother's Day definitely wasn't on Easter Sunday last year

I used to like it when the clocks went forwards when my kids were younger and woke early, because I could pretend I’d had a lie in !

I think you have got your wires crossed here. You would only fall forwards unless doing a trust exercise. Springing back however is much common (hence the phrase spring has sprung back). Fall refers to Americans lamenting the fall of summer months of plenty.