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!

It takes me at least a week or two to adjust. It’s like jet lag. I actually prefer summer time once I’ve adjusted as it’s a bit darker again in the mornings for a while and I love the long days.

The winter change is fine as I get an extra hour.

Obviously I’d only say it if it’s relevant! 😂

But - larks don’t need to mention it- everything is set up for them - the way the typical working day is structured. The way getting up early is seen as virtuous, in a way that being productive in the evening never is. Wanting to sleep later is seen as lazy etc

People might mention being a night owl more just to get to get a bit less judgment.

Idk, maybe I need melatonin or something.

Everything "being set up for them" is due to human beings having circadian rhythms that are naturally in sync with daylight hours. Thats all. It's not some huge conspiracy to piss off people who prefer working at night.

In fact, working night shifts increases your risk of cancer and other life limiting illnesses so if we tried to suit night owls it would increase illness and disease in the majority of the population.

Judgement also goes both ways here - go to bed at 10pm and you get told "dont be so boring", "dont you ever have fun?", "live a little" etc

I personally couldn't give a flying fuck if you want to go to bed at 2am, or 4am, it doesnt affect me in the slightest but I think saying a 1 hour change affects you for 6 months is dramatic and a bit silly.

You sound much more upset by it than I am by the clock change tbh 😂

I couldn't sleep at all last night.
I love winter time.

I hate this clock change as the mornings get dark again. I don't care about light evenings, but I find it really hard the first week or after the clocks go forward when it's dark again when I leave the house.

Maybe I'm odd but it doesn't phase me at all, I barely notice it. The time is the time, so when I woke up this morning at was 9am (yes I know it was actually 8) I thought better get DD up or she won't be tired at her normal bed time of 8pm. Changed the clocks in the kitchen and on the thermostat. That's it. I won't think anymore of it.

If you work yourself up thinking oh it's actually 2pm when the clock says 3 you just making an issue of it. The time is just what the clock says.

There are times in life I realise how adaptable I am. It genuinely doesn’t even register with me! How strange that it has such an impact on some people. I love the long light nights so it’s all good for me!

I don't know why we bother with it. GMT year round would be fine. There would still be plenty of the year when it's light past 7.30pm which. It's a pointless exercise.

When I see my neighbour leaving her house at 10.30am with her 4yo on a regular weekday yes I do judge. Most days nursery opens 9am, so the little one misses nursery hours because of the mum who can't be arsed with getting her to nursery when she doesn't have her older three DC to take to school (shared custody with the dad). Yet when she has the older three too she somehow manages to get our before 9am to drive them to school. Night owl or not, you have to keep to the schedule for the sake of others.

I’m the opposite. I literally count the days till they go forward. I love the longer evenings.

I seriously can’t understand how it affects people past the first day.

It's fascinating how it affects people differently! The clocks going forward or back puts dh out of sorts for days or a week. I'm totally unbothered by it. I just wake up, change the time on the analogue clocks and carry on as normal!

It doesn’t bother me either way clocks changing, a day or so and I’m back to normal. Also doesn’t phase me going abroad with different time changes, I might not sleep so well if there’s a several hour difference but that doesn’t bother me, I don’t like sleeping on holiday anyway 😆

If she’s in nursery, then surely the neighbour is enjoying time with her daughter in the mornings. Early mornings at nursery are if you are rushing off to work. Why would you take them to nursery for 9am if you didn’t have to?

I’m excited for the extra daylight in the evening.

I woke up feeling great but I was asleep by 8pm last night! I am grumbling though as we’ve lost a hour, think the daylight savings needs to removed.

I just googled this - heart attacks and strokes rise by 24% in the week following the clock change - that’s shocking!

Well at least mine won’t last 6 months 🤣

Doesn’t really bother me now that my kids are older, the baby and toddler years were a pain though.

This morning I had something on so the morning felt a bit weird and rushed, and it’ll probably be a bit of a shock to the system getting up Monday morning, but it’s school holidays so that will help a lot. By Tuesday I’m sure we’ll all be completely back to normal!

6 months to adjust seems a bit excessive OP!

Also yay my car clock is now back at the right time

No love it. Goodbye Winter. Good riddance.

I agree OP.

I feel the effects of it for the full 6 months until they change back.

The winter clock is the one my body feels best with.

Having an early night doesn't change the fact that my internal clock has been set to sleep for an extra hour all winter. I never fully adjust to BST.

I completely forgot. I wondered why i woke up so late today 😂

I hate this one!!! The other clock change I feel like I’ve slept! My mum keeps saying how great it is because of brightness but I’m not convinced!!

It's always cold when the clocks go forward and still warm when the clocks go back. So its pointless?

I’ m definitely feeling a bit out of sorts with it today, the dreary weather doesn’t help

but I love the lighter evenings so much so overall it’s a great thing

I have lived abroad in places much further south which didn’t get nearly as much light in summer (admittedly they got a fair bit more in winter) and it was the one thing I missed most about the uk.