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!

Strictly speaking they have the same number of light and dark hours using BST or GMT

Yes the key thing here is usable daylight.

I'm usually fine whichever 'time' we're on, but I hate losing the hour going forward, and whether the shift is forward or backward, it takes a few days to adjust. The system of changing annoys me, and I wish we'd just stay where we are and leave it be!

I think it’s a you problem calling this a “stupid time”. Times are all just times.

Its not even that late!

Of course she’ll adapt when she starts school. They’ll just do what they do when the big kids are there.

It’s just as usable an until we had this idea of fixed clocks we managed perfectly well using the daylight hours

argggh

The answer is probably that I’m on holiday so can do as I please!

But I think being nearer the equator is better for me - the light doesn’t go on so late in the evenings in summer so my body starts
to realise it’s night later.

Maybe should be rethinking the
trip to Tromso though… 😄😄 Until I do it exactly half way through Spring or autumn…

Maybe it isn’t the clock change that is the problem but that you don’t like it being light in the evenings? Do you struggle to sleep when it is light out?

Sorry if this is preaching to the choir, but do you have good curtains or eyemask or block out the light?

Dcat was very vocal this morning. I wonder if this is why.

I wish I could take mine on an empty stomach! I'm not a breakfast person. It's ruined my fasting routine 🙄 & isn't good for my diabetes as I need to eat with my bedtime ones too 🙄

i just thought its 5pm but then realised its almost 6pm

Funnily enough I sleep fine in the light in so far as I can lie in all morning with bright sunshine streaming in - bothers me not a jot!

I think it has to have been dark out though - I can’t necessarily sleep when it’s STILL light, if that makes sense.

I don’t sleep with the light on but I could if I wanted to.

I’ve got our dinner ready at a “normal” time (it wasn’t a late Sunday lunch sort of day here as DS and I were out) so that hopefully it helps put us onto the right track.

It helps that I’m off work this week!

have a gooden anything nice for dinner ? , mine was that instinct feeling and then oh opps so to speak

The day of clock change day, I always feel so hungry! I assume that’s completely in my head though 😂

I find the clock change in October hard, but this one is fine. Mornings on the farm will be a bit darker for a few weeks but I’m looking forward to summer.
The horses were all quite shocked to see me extra early today!

I certainly felt the difference yesterday. I had to get up at 6am to get to an event, so it felt like 5am.

I did better than friends going to the same thing though. They had to leave the house at (new) 5am!

I bloody love BST. Yesterday is one of my annual red letter days, along with the winter solstice when the days finally start to get longer.

Obviously I’m a lark, and I’ll often go to bed in full sunlight for a few months now, but the lighter evenings are just a joy.

But it’s only an hour? I can’t understand what the big deal is, and I say the same when they go back in October.

The clocks going forward did have one positive result here - one of our dogs normally jumps on dh at around 5.57am, wanting to go out and to have her breakfast, and yesterday it was 6.57am! Time will tell whether this lasts, of course.

I really struggle to get up in the mornings, so effectively making myself get up an hour earlier feels like an impossible task. I had 20 mins to get ready and out the door this morning and still feel like the walking dead. DH is great in the mornings so he doesn’t understand why I find the clock change tough, but I’ll be driving to work in a foggy haze all week I expect.

I only realised today that the BST is 7 months and GMT 5 months long

I generally compensate by just going to bed a bit earlier, and/or having more of a lie-in than usual.
I did notice yesterday, that I was abnormally hungry for my dinner last night at 6pm. Until I realised my body clock thought it was 7.

I appreciate the lighter evenings massively though! My mood is much better when it's lighter out.

Er... at 6pm your body will have thought it was 5pm, not 7.

I hate the clocks going forward! Trying to fight against my night owl tendencies and suddenly an hour is added to my troubles! Going to bed early doesn't work if you can't get to sleep.

If it was up to me I'd leave us on British summer time all year round. It's so depressing in the winter when it suddenly gets dark earlier, and difficult when the clocks go forward again in March (apparently it's easier to stay awake an extra hour than go to bed earlier for most people). Getting up/going to work in the dark happens for a considerable part of the winter anyway, so it's not as if we avoid that with the current system. Better to have the daylight closer to the middle of the actual day.

I'm really pleased, it will be light till nearly 8pm tonight so i can go to the gym then cycle home without having to do it with lights in the dark. Light evenings are much more conducive to going places and doing stuff.
And nobody needs any more daylight at 5am than we already have to endure...

Same.

I hate the clocks faffing around. It's a real hassle for kids with nap time and bedtime, and you get less sleep (I don't think getting more sleep 6m later makes up for that). Seems utterly pointless in this day and age. Why we can't just pick a time halfway between the two and stick to it I have no idea.

And now it's light when I wake up and light when I finish work, I can cope with it but I don't like it. I much prefer it being dark when I wake up and dark when I finish work. Going into summer knowing it's just gonna be lighter late evening and early morning always gives me a sense of dread.

But generally people finish work at about 5 or 6pm - why would you want it to be dark then - lighter evenings are so much nicer in terms of travelling home from work or being able to do stuff after work.

Mumsnet is the only place when i have seen people actively welcome the dark misery of the short winter days.

I love the long days. It's just the jet lag from the time change I hate.