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[Bigron]

Why, oh why do we indulge in this bi-annual madness of changing our clocks? It's a phenominal waste of time, money and effort on the part of those who do not have self-setting radio code controlled clocks, and for no useful purpose. We have been doing this for just over 100 years now; if it's a good thing (supposedly) how the hell did we m,anage all those millennia before we adopted this procedure? The day is still 24 hours long, however you carve it.

Ron.

[STEMO]

Madness? I think I may have just experienced that. My lad has one of these Pure iPad docks/radio things. I shouted up and asked him if he'd managed to work out how to change the time. He said no, so dad to the rescue. I went up and it said 9:40, so I got the little remote, went through the settings and changed it to 10:40....done. Put it back to standby.....9:40. Hmmmm....went through it all again..9:40 to 10:40... standby. 9:40.
Right....powered off and leave it a while. Set to 10:43 by now, standby, 9:43. F*** it.
Then it dawned on us. It was 9:43, not 10:43 and it was receiving an rds signal and setting itself.
Dooooooooh! 

[zirk]

Its for the Northern England and Scotland folk, so there kids can walk to school in the mornings in daylight.

Don't have this problem down South as they all go to school in 4x4's. 

[Ever Ready]

You have to think of the poor child living in the Utter Hebridies that would have to walk from the croft to school

[Bigron]

So, for those few lost souls in Outer Wherever, we all have to suffer great inconvenience? 'dangle berries' to them!

Ron.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I think it's great that when the weather is supposed to get warmer and nicer, we suddenly get an extra hour of daylight in the evenings to enjoy it! 

Or maybe not...... 

[Ever Ready]

Now now Bigron, that's a bit cruel, they may be eaten by a feral haggis or even Nessie

[redelitev6]

  Nightmare ! must have taken me all of 5 minutes to change the clocks/watch/microwave  , just have to gear myself up to do it all again in the autumn !

[Mister Rog]

Madness? I think I may have just experienced that. My lad has one of these Pure iPad docks/radio things. I shouted up and asked him if he'd managed to work out how to change the time. He said no, so dad to the rescue. I went up and it said 9:40, so I got the little remote, went through the settings and changed it to 10:40....done. Put it back to standby.....9:40. Hmmmm....went through it all again..9:40 to 10:40... standby. 9:40.
Right....powered off and leave it a while. Set to 10:43 by now, standby, 9:43. F*** it.
Then it dawned on us. It was 9:43, not 10:43 and it was receiving an rds signal and setting itself.
Dooooooooh! 

9:43  ?


Now let me think . . . . Ah yes. I was still in bed . . . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz     

[BazaJT]

Wasn't it originally done for the farmers during some war or other?

[TD]

Nightmare ! must have taken me all of 5 minutes to change the clocks/watch/microwave  , just have to gear myself up to do it all again in the autumn !

Ermmm....It took me all of 0 secs to change mine....Clock in kitchen/Living room/Alarm clock/Weather station and even CH controller changed times themselves 

I expect the Humax box has changed itself too.....I shall see when I turn the tv on....

The mondeo will probably change itself too if I retune to a national radio station....don't think the local radio station I listen to transmits time signals 

[Bigron]

No, Benjamin Franklin had this brainstorm over 100 years ago, and we were daft enough to copy some time later.
Farmers have farmed perfectly adequately for millennia before this pointless interference held sway.
Apparently, the royal household has thousands of clocks to adjust twice per year and it takes lots of staff over 50 hours to do so! Not that I'm all that worried about them, but in offices, workshops etc., all over the country time is wasted re-setting clocks - and time is money.
I've got to go out in the cold now and re-set my sundial.....

Ron.

[Sir Tigger KC]

We get an extra hour of daylight this evening.    How can that be a bad thing?     

[Bigron]

No you don't, unless you have a galactic influence denied to the rest of us mere mortals. You could have had the extra hour last week, or any day, by adjusting your personal waking/sleeping hours, if you so chose.

Ron.

[Mister Rog]

We get an extra hour of daylight this evening.    How can that be a bad thing?     

 

So, all that is needed is a bit of sunshine, and I can start thinking about firing up the BBQ !