Clocks

Nice lie in for some tomorrowDon't forget to put your clocks BACK before you go to bed

I like the lie in but, putting the clocks back is a pain, the fone, puter and techo stuff are, self righting but, the car clock is in itself, a task that might take a month to get reet,

My car is simple find time settings either tick a box or untick a box and it then resets itself

I don't mind the clocks going back, but I hate the early dark nights which accompanies it.

Anyone remember 1970, when they did not put the clocks back.

It should be kept at British Summer Time of longer daylight and less evening darkness.

We must be the only country who do this nonsense of clock changing twice a year!

OC I once read about some countries moving their time zones by 2hrs I don't know if this is the case today. In this day and age with modern street lighting and farm machinery lit up like floodlights there is no need to keep changing the clocks. Most children are ferried to/from school by vehicle and most rural areas by mini bus. We get the experts who say by adjusting the times there are less accidents. I wonder at times by what method these experts come to their results

PeterP

Perhaps its another way of keeping us more in the darkness like many other things!

Owd Codger and other W.W. members, we are not the only country that, as to say, puts the clocks forward and, at a later time of the year, puts the clocks back.

ianp

I concede that we may not be the only country, but it is still aload of nonsense!

A load of old nonsense?

It’s not the only thing around here!

O.C., I only came to realise this change of time in other countries due to being in those places at the time of changing the time of the clocks.
Please understand, I was not attacking you in any way and, as most of us fully understand, we have knowledge but not about everything - me included.

So no one remembers 1970

Yoo are going senile, but saying that I can't remember anything happening with the clocks in 1968 and 69, but in 1970 for personal reasons, because we were moving, it proved to be a godsend for me

"The British Standard Time Experiment

From 1968 to 1971 Britain experimented with keeping BST or GMT+1 all year round. It was dubbed British Standard Time. The motive was to help British industry work more closely with Europe. The experiment failed because the United Kingdom reaches high latitudes and people in the northern parts were deprived of light for most of the morning in the short winter days.

From 1972, it was decided to revert to keeping GMT in winter and BST in summer"

LINK

Tommy Two Stroke, some may be too young.

Germany and Canada have clock changes twice a year that I know of personally.

The Prime Meridian is featured as it crosses the AP2 in Aragon, Spain. I've driven under it several times, in both directions.
However, I don't know why they bother as they don't recognise it?

They call it The Greenwich Meridian Marker!