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

[Obvs92]

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

It’s Spring forwards (clocks go forward in spring - like today) and fall back (clocks go back in Fall (American word for Autumn).

Honestly.

No no! It’s spring forwards (the clocks) in spring, and fall backwards in ‘fall’ (autumn)

Clocks spring forward in spring, fall backwards in fall.

It’s called fall because it’s the season in which leaves fall from the trees. The term actually originated in England before Autumn became more commonly used.

Well since it will be lighter later then your children should sleep till later if the light causes them to wake up.

It makes a huge difference to me - but I may not be representative.

The words 'Spring forwards' and 'Fall backwards' are just phrases invented to enable people to remember (easily) which way the hour changes.

'Fall' being synonymous with autumn, in the US.

It's easier than trying to explain Greenwich Meant Time (GMT) and British Summer Time (BST.)

What are you on about??

Are you deliberately trying to confuse people who already don't know which is which?

I agree. My mother moans about this every year, despite the fact that a) she’s retired and b) has never worked on a Sunday in her life. I pointed out when she was complaining last night about “losing an hour in bed” that she could just stay in bed an hour longer and I got “Nooooo! Not when we’ve got to go out!!”

We’re going out at one. One! To a restaurant five minutes away. Unless, after 70 years, she’s discovered a latent desire to sleep until midday, she absolutely could have stayed in bed an hour longer.

I agree. I've never heard the phrase 'Spring has sprung back'!!!

This!

And small children are the same as dogs. They will wake up when their body clock wakes them up because they can't tell the time. If they usually wake up at 6, they will wake up at 7 today. If we put the clocks forward by 2 hours they would wake up at 8. I used to pretend it was a lie in when my DC were tiny, but they had still slept for the same number of hours regardless of what it said on the face of the clock.

I'm confused about you being so confidently wrong.

That's ok! You could try setting a reminder with the words of the saying the night before to remind you, but actually most things just update automatically.

Sorry to but in but "falling forward into the longer days" is not a saying

The clocks changed in most European countries today...it is not Mother's Day where I am.

Happy for the clocks to change on any day, I love the lighter nights.

Well yes exactly! Although the phrase has less to do with the US (especially given that they don’t follow our UK time changes anyway) and is rooted in the old English term for Autumn that the US happen to have adopted.

The US does change its clocks in spring and fall too, of course, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the phrase originated there. They just do it earlier in spring and later at the back end so they have longer ‘daylight savings’.

No, I meant the clocks went forward on Easter Sunday. Mother's Day and Easter Sunday can't fall on the same day because Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Lent.

At least the daylight/dark pattern is starting to get more in line with actual day/night now. I always find kids sleep better in summer when it's clearly day or night. Winter it's "night" from 4pm so there's no real way to distinguish sleep time.