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!

Least the clocks didn't go forward on Mother's Day this year ha.

When I go on holiday to Greece their time is 2 hours ahead. A couple of weeks there would fuck you up for life OP.

Hardly noticed it to be honest

Night owl/lark? Meh. Try living with a brain that says "why not both?" - I was awake when the clocks changed and up at 6.30am 😆

Still, I get over the clock changes after a day or so and I love the lighter evenings.

I stupidly went to a gig last night and got to bed at 1am. Up at 8, so less than 6 hours sleep.

She wakes her up at 10am. Can hear her through the wall. So up and straight out to nursery. Her dd sleeping isn't what I would call quality time with her....

I m the opposite, I’ve been waking very early the last few weeks due to the lighter mornings as my body clock seems to adjust to the new time a few weeks before the clocks change. I’d rather we stayed on BST all year round.

It does not give an extra hour for growing crops you numpty.

The change is nothing to do with the temperature. It’s to do with the changing daylight hours.

I reckon a party could win the next election if they put stopping the change in their manifesto.

When I was a student nurse, I was working nights on the night when the clocks went back - it was so depressing getting to 2am, and seeing the time go back to 1am, and knowing I had an extra hour to work - a 12 hour night. And we didn’t get paid for the extra hour - because the staff who worked the night when the clocks went forward, didn’t lose an hour.

Luckily most of the staff nurses were understanding, and gave us longer breaks, but it was still a long, wearing night.

@MorrisonsPlatter it is about maximising usable daylight, for the people working growing and harvesting the crops, not the crops themselves!

That’s such a weird take!

They may well both enjoy a slow morning together!

Who wants to rush out in the mornings when they don’t have to? She’s paying for nursery, not the other way around.

Not everyone feels it’s “missing out” not to be rushing around first thing. The first hours of the day aren’t somehow “better hours”.

Even though I don’t think BST should be a thing (as discussed), I think if they are going to do it, as a gift to (most) workers they should do the forward change at midday on a Wednesday.

The backwards change can stay at night though.

Just as a little gift to the working public.

She’s asleep? So presumably not caring where she is! Maybe the little one needs a bit of a lie in too!

Both time changes kill me off, it takes weeks. I’ve already had a two hour nap on the sofa.

No, it’s entirely different, as I said upthread. That the right time for Greece! And its nearer the equator so in the summer time I’m getting more dark before I have to go to bed (I don’t like the long light evenings as I feel wide awake).

I love going to Greece as it happens.

It’s seven months.

BST is seven months of the year.

I’m not finding it difficult to spite you. And you didn’t make me unhappy about it. I’ve just never liked it. Nothing to do with you or your remarks.

I get up at 4.15 to start work at 6 so getting up this morning at “3” felt absolutely brutal, could have done without it 😂

any idea why World Service announced the time in GMT this morning?

Free nursery hours. 30 hrs a week. I made sure all mine were in nursery early! It's fully funded. Why wouldn't you?

She's going to get a shock when starting school come August when by law she needs to be up early term time. No more long lies at stupid times.

I don't mind the lighter evenings but the weather is crap.

But Greece has summer time as well, so it isn’t the “right” time there either.