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Do You Change your clocks on the Saturday night before bed or do you do it on the Sunday morning when you wake up

40 replies

TheRosePoster · 30/03/2025 12:10

We do it Sunday but some do it Saturday before bed. Just asking as the clocks went forward

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VexedofVirginiaWater · 30/03/2025 12:12

I do my bedside one when I go to bed, but all the others the next day (and I have quite a lot of clocks). The oven and microwave ones are the hardest - I always have to look them up in the manuals.

WinterBones · 30/03/2025 12:13

we've only a couple that need changing, we do it sunday morning.

Letmehaveabloodyusernameplease · 30/03/2025 12:19

You've just reminded me! Thankyou 🙈

SauvignonBlanche · 30/03/2025 12:21

I do mine as I go to bed, haven’t done the car yet, that usually takes me a week or so.

CleverLemonCat · 30/03/2025 12:44

SauvignonBlanche · 30/03/2025 12:21

I do mine as I go to bed, haven’t done the car yet, that usually takes me a week or so.

Can never be bothered to do the car. It will be correct for the next six months though! Used to do the clock before I went to bed, dont have one anymore and the phone updates automatically.

rainbowunicorn · 30/03/2025 12:46

I have just realised that I don't have a single clock in the house that needs to be changed. All watches, phones, tv, etc do it automatically. Use our phones as alarm clocks and never have the oven one set anyway. The only one will.be the car but as I didn't change it last time it will.now be at the correct time.

StMarie4me · 30/03/2025 12:48

I have none that don’t change themselves!

Nourishinghandcream · 30/03/2025 12:50

All done the night before apart from the vehicles which get done when we next use them.

SocksPants · 30/03/2025 12:50

I have a sundial, do I need to update that?

whippy1981 · 30/03/2025 12:50

Only my car needs changing and I do that when I next go into it which I haven't yet. Only takes 2 seconds so no point going out to do it.

MyNameIsAnna · 30/03/2025 12:51

SocksPants · 30/03/2025 12:50

I have a sundial, do I need to update that?

You just need to move it a mile to the left, then it’s all good for the next six months.

EliflurtleAndTheInfiniteMadness · 30/03/2025 12:52

Depends when I remember to do it.

CleverLemonCat · 30/03/2025 13:00

SocksPants · 30/03/2025 12:50

I have a sundial, do I need to update that?

No, but I would love a sundial! ( Edited before I get a snarky 'you dont need to change a sundial').

DysmalRadius · 30/03/2025 13:03

When the clocks go forward, I leave them until Sunday so the kids get up at the 'old time' in the hopes of not missing an hour. When they go back, I change them before bed so the kids get up at the 'new time' and I actually get the extra hour.

Poshjock · 30/03/2025 13:04

I only have one clock that requires setting, it's a decorative wall clock and I'll do it when I remember at some point today. All the important clocks change themselves, including the car. I don't use the clock on the cooker it flashes 00:00 pretty much permanently.

DoAWheelie · 30/03/2025 13:10

I don't think I've owned a clock that needs manually changing in over 15 years now.

yeesh · 30/03/2025 13:11

We don’t have any that need changing

OwlBasket · 30/03/2025 13:12

When the children were small we did it after dinner on the Saturday evening to minimise disruption. Now they’re older I just do it the Sunday

JackGrealishsCalves · 30/03/2025 13:25

Bedside clock the night before, rest of them in the morning (or weeks later if they areca faff 😁)

Dinosweetpea · 30/03/2025 14:31

Always the night before when we go to bed. We seem to have lots that need changing!

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 30/03/2025 17:02

I’ve only got one that needs manually changing, oh and the boiler and the car. Newbie occurred to me to do it on Saturday night

IntheSpaghetti · 30/03/2025 17:10

I just wait 6 months for it to change back.

clary · 30/03/2025 17:13

Saturday night. I had to pick one of my DC up from work at 11pm so I did it when I got in – then realised I better go to bed as it was gone midnight haha. Did the car while I waited for DC.

Edit: colleague said oh surely they all do it automatically? I said well not my car, my oven or the analogue clock in the kitchen (which obvs takes 10 seconds). He said his oven clock had been wrong for years #stressful

eosmum · 30/03/2025 17:14

IntheSpaghetti · 30/03/2025 17:10

I just wait 6 months for it to change back.

Me too. I spend the next six months adding on the hour.

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 30/03/2025 17:17

The only actual clock I have (that doesn't automatically change itself) is purely decorative anyway as it hasn't had new batteries for years 😆

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