Altering The Clocks

[Caran]

What do you think about this. I think it is a complete waste of time.
Every time it just drives me mad.
There was a good description of it in this mornings papers.
It was likened to cutting a strip of the top of a blanket and sewing it on the bottom again.
That just about summed it up for me.

[pixie374]

I think so too. I'm not sure anyone really benefits from it nowadays.

[Cloverjo]

I agree. I don't mind the clocks going forward so much - although I was late for work this morning - clocks going back I find much more difficult.

[tonyav]

Should stay on British summertime hours all year round imo.

[CrapAtCryptics]

There are an awful lot of atomic linked clocks these days even wall ones - they do it all for you and arent expensive.

[Cloverjo]

It's worse when you have small children. Their routine is completely mucked up by the change in time. When the clocks go back, the day - and a few following it - seem to last forever.

[DTCwordfan]

It happens every spring: crocuses, wild garlic, and cricket (with any luck), and the switch to Daylight Savings Time (ST).

Coming off GMT is not hard. In the Autumn, we set our clocks back one hour. We all get an extra hour to sleep, and those who forget find themselves at church, or the airport, or wherever an hour early, even an England or Wales (where it is 2 hours). Embarrassing, but not catastrophic.

But in the Spring we set the clocks forward, and the trouble begins. We lose an hour of sleep. Forgetful people miss Mass, planes, breakfast, and the big game on TV, even the Boat Race. Some are thrown into disarray for up to a full week. Annual losses due to Summer Time confusion have been estimated (by me) at over ten million Pounds. I myself have missed a flight to Parus and a showing of TheSeven Samurai because of ST.

There is no need for such tragic waste. We can -- we should and must -- urge our lawmakers to reform SummerSavings Time as follows:

Setting clocks back is easy; setting them forward is difficult. Therefore, let
us keep the autumn ritual as it is. However, one Sunday each Spring, let us set our clocks not one hour forward, but TWENTY-THREE HOURS BACKWARD.

Think of all the advantages. We will not lose an hour of sleep; we will gain
(almost) a day of rest. It will be Saturday all over again. You will never
again miss Confession, or an airplane, or the Man U game (though you may want to).

Naturally, if this were the whole plan, our calendars would fall behind one day in each year. However, the second part of the Revised SST Plan deals with this. Every four years, instead of adding a day, let us SUBTRACT THREE DAYS.

Furthermore, let these be Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, which according to recent polls are the least popular days.

If done in February, which seems reasonable considering what a miserable month it is, this would have the beneficial side effect of shortening the
excruciating local elections and any Sturgeon or EU referendums season by an effective four days.

The advantages of this plan are clear. Let us waste no time. With a determined effort we can have Reformed Summer Savings Time by Spring of next year.

Write your MP today and c.c. The Queen!

[retrocop]

Caran
I heard there may be a vacancy for this gentleman's job soon when he retires.
Not for you ????


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/british-summer-time-man-change-165100004.html?nhp=1

[Caran]

Definitely not for me, retrocop, thanks all the same.

[Caran]

DTC Well done, you put a lot of work in that. Just think of the utter carnage that would cause.

[viv41]

But if it's stopped, what about all the technology we own with the time displayed that are programmed to change for years ahead every spring and autumn ??

[aelmpvw]

i like the spring when they go forward, it means i get in the pub an hour earlier

[woofgang]

It doesn’t bother me.

[viv41]

Me neither.

[CrapAtCryptics]

They arent programmed years ahead a little pulse goes out at the right time and tells all the linked clocks to change

[viv41]

Really?

[bhg481]

Some clocks use a radio signal to correct the time, others are pre-programmed. We have both sorts.

[viv41]

So I was right, the pre programmed ones will be messed up .....

[bhg481]

Our pre-programmed one happens to be a Roberts clock radio. You have to set the time yourself and then it adds an hour every spring and removes an hour every autumn. If they stopped BST I would have to move it back an hour every spring to undo the hour it had added, but it would be possible to get it to show the correct time.

[viv41]

I'm thinking about my digital recorder ....

[bhg481]

I think machines like that receive a pulse telling the clock to change, so they should be OK.