To hate it when the clocks go forward!

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Not helped by the fact that I stupidly arranged an activity this morning at 11 a bit of a drive away, so we’re all on a schedule.

I’m going to feel out of sorts until October.

I’m a natural night owl and the sense that we’re on the wrong time never really leaves me.

I’d so love if we had a period of time when the clocks go back an extra hour, where we’re an hour behind GMT rather than either on it or ahead of it.

I don’t really care if I am BU tbh!

OMG they are adorable!! Your post has brightened up my morning 😊

I hate the dark evenings and wish we could stay on this time throughout the year

I find it really depressing when the clocks go back. I hate it being dark at eg 4.30pm.
I feel so much happier in January when I notice the days getting a bit longer

@LiviaDrusillaAugusta you are very welcome 🤗 💐🫂

Same, I feel no different whatsoever.

I hate the change but you can prepare for it and get yourself there slowly. Also it works better for your biology it's good to get active in the lighter hours so I'm not against it

I'm a night owl too

I actively look forward to today, it means spring and summer are official, lighter morning and nights, warmer weather, summer clothes, flowers in the garden, all the good things really.

Of course it's changed. I need to get up an hour earlier to be where I want to be. I hate it.

I just went to bed at 9. Boring, yes but I don’t feel any different this morning. I personally don’t get all the fuss 🫣

No different to travelling to Europe and losing an hour is it?

Yep I felt great when I realised it was 7am I got woken up at not 6am as per normal.

I hate them going forwards too, not because it affects me physically but because I hate it that the mornings get lighter for a bit and then go dark again for a bit, especially when I'm working and have to be up and out. This year is great as tomorrow is the first week of the Easter holidays so hopefully by the time I go back to work the mornings will have caught up. I'm also not a fan of long, light, cold evenings in March/April. I think they are massively over-rated and find a light morning far more valuable than a light evening at this time of year.

When the dc were small and I was a classroom teacher I hated this Sunday if it fell during term time as it felt like a ridiculously short day and I'd struggle to get everything done if I got up at my normal time, which was an hour later than it should have been. Now the dc are older and I have a more managerial role it wouldn't be quite as bad even if it were term time.

I absolutely love it when the clocks go back in October though and I can't stand all the people who invariably start saying they want to stop it. Lighter mornings are more desirable than cold light evenings.

i never know what time to eat!

Except night owls are more likely to suffer from SAD so my point still stands that the change doesn't have the same effect on larks. I could have been clearer that "your" was referring to larks.

I doubt (at least I hope) the op doesn't go around announcing it either. Yes, announcing either in general conversation is a bit wanky but given the topic, I think it's a reasonable use of the descriptor.

Fair play.

I get on with it too as I'm an adult with no choice but going to bed an hour early doesn't work for me as I won't sleep. I have to do it in 10-15 minute intervals.

Those saying time is arbitrary are incorrect. It is very much based in physics.

Quick time history/science lesson if anyone is interested.

• Noon is when the sun is at its zenith (highest). With sundials this was easy.
• With the advent of mechanical clocks it became a bit trickier as the length of a day varies throughout the year. So we shifted to Mean Time, which can be related to Solar time using funky calculations.
• Every town then had its own local mean time, with noon as close as possible to the zenith. It varies depending on how far east and west you are.
• Fine and dandy when the fastest anyone could travel was horse speed - really confusing when trains came along.
• So the government decided to introduce a national mean time, based on the local mean time at Greenwich. Hence GMT.
• Other countries thought that was a jolly good idea so introduced thier own time zones, which is why they all go back to reference GMT.

Not arbitrary at all.

I hope she isnt 🤣

But anyway, the point is, the OP is still being ridiculously over dramatic by saying it's going to affect her for 6 months. Clocks going back definitely affects my mood but as others have said, I am an adult so I do what I can to adjust.

YABU.

I love the clocks going forward and the lighter evenings. I cannot stand it being dark by 4pm, it's so horribly bloody depressing.

I don't understand how anyone can be very thrown by missing one hour's sleep on a Saturday night.

It’s the getting up earlier every morning after that. It’s horrible.

Clocks changing is a pain and pointless. Leave them alone - I don't care if it's GMT or BST, pick one and stick with it.

Surely you eat when hungry??…do you only eat at certain times?

I still don't understand.

If, last week, you went to bed at, say 11 and got up at seven, do you now go to bed at 12, because it's 'really' 11, and then get up at seven, which you feel is
'really' six?

And how long does it last, this feeling that it's six, not seven?

And how does it work the other way round? When the clocks go back do you somehow feel that everything is normal again? And why's that one normal and not the other one? Is it because you were born between November and March?

I mean, I think that the clocks going back and forth is anachronistic and pointless, but it takes me about, ooh, eight hours to adjust. In the spring it's like having a slightly late night, and in the autumn it's like oversleeping a bit.

That's not what we mean. What we mean is that the clocks don't change nature. They simply try and describe it for us. People who say they don't like clocks changing because the mornings are lighter or darker are missing the point. The mornings will be what the mornings have always been. It's like weights and measures and money. They're human ways of capturing processes. You plan your life accordingly. We're all bound to societal commitments and we have some little choice in that.

I accept that it can be tough when you have small children or certain work patterns and there's a period of adjustment but if it feels like 6 months of misery, you have it in you to manage your life around the actual constant: nature.

You can still eat when you're hungry. Do you not do that anyway?