This is one of my 'pet peeves'. Not all of us can adjust our individual natural body clocks easily and it takes me weeks to adjust. This one isn't so bad but when we lose an hour's sleep I feel tired for about 2 months and it affects my performance at work for the first hour of every day. Roll on retirement when I can tell the government 'clock elves' to get stuffed!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Frank, double summer time, that is something I only learned about in recent years. My Dad during his dementia would talk about it and I thought it was part of his confusion
I also wish we'd stop messing with the clocks, like Bob it throws me out
I often seem to lose days anyway...in fact I'd lost a whole week at work because we had an order to be completed for the 29th and I thought that was next weekend
and when daughter's off school I'm completely lost as to what day it is
The clock change in spring never affects me but this one does. Is it something to do with the fact that the spring one is 'optimistic' and the autumn one... just isn't
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Kef, they to themselves are not confused and he was correct we had double summer time, I found in those long years caring for Joan the best way was to take her back, Photo's of her as a girl Dancing and of the family as children, I had pictures of all our dogs and she could name them when she could not remember who I was. People in that situation should stop and listen, they are not in our world but their world is real to them.
Steve lad, you do not get to be an old experienced gardener without getting old. I was talking with my S/L about the chemistry of Steel, he is a Chemistry graduate engineer and was getting it wrong. I still have all my college papers and knew where to look, a few minutes later my Grandson 13 said "you should listen to Granddad he knows what he is talking about" and added "he drove tanks"???? what that has to do with anything I do not know.
Unlike Fairygirl and others I am a morning person so the extra hour in bed does not happen, I get up the same time and go to bed an hour earlier. My mad party and dancing days are over, slippers TV or a book with a smallish glass of Scottish fire water and that's me gone.
I don't bother changing the kitchen clock its too high up so tomorrow it will tell the right time for six months. I wish we didnt change them. Spare a thought for all essential workers tonight. Many of them don't get paid for that extra hour they do, I know the police don't but not sure about the others. It must be great for the ones on duty in Spring though as the must get to go home early.
I know there's only a given amount of daylight, but why change so early? Tomorrow it'll be light at 6am when most are still asleep ,but dark at 6pm when most are up and about. That's the whole country having to switch on lights an hour earlier. Apart form the electricity suppliers, who does that help?
Do not worry Runnybeak, we have his number, he will be out foxed by the posters on here, a crafty lot of mud pluggers, he could find his garden covered in china clay and think it has snowed.
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This is one of my 'pet peeves'. Not all of us can adjust our individual natural body clocks easily and it takes me weeks to adjust. This one isn't so bad but when we lose an hour's sleep I feel tired for about 2 months and it affects my performance at work for the first hour of every day. Roll on retirement when I can tell the government 'clock elves' to get stuffed!
Frank, double summer time, that is something I only learned about in recent years. My Dad during his dementia would talk about it and I thought it was part of his confusion
I also wish we'd stop messing with the clocks, like Bob it throws me out
Pointless isn't it.
The days are too short, the nights are too long, moving the hands on a clock won't change that.
OH thought it was Saturday yesterday.
We have a good mix of manual and remote controlled clocks. It takes an hour to walk from the sitting room to the kitchen today
In the sticks near Peterborough
I often seem to lose days anyway...in fact I'd lost a whole week at work because we had an order to be completed for the 29th and I thought that was next weekend
and when daughter's off school I'm completely lost as to what day it is
The clock change in spring never affects me but this one does. Is it something to do with the fact that the spring one is 'optimistic' and the autumn one... just isn't
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Kef, they to themselves are not confused and he was correct we had double summer time, I found in those long years caring for Joan the best way was to take her back, Photo's of her as a girl Dancing and of the family as children, I had pictures of all our dogs and she could name them when she could not remember who I was. People in that situation should stop and listen, they are not in our world but their world is real to them.
Steve lad, you do not get to be an old experienced gardener without getting old. I was talking with my S/L about the chemistry of Steel, he is a Chemistry graduate engineer and was getting it wrong. I still have all my college papers and knew where to look, a few minutes later my Grandson 13 said "you should listen to Granddad he knows what he is talking about" and added "he drove tanks"???? what that has to do with anything I do not know.
Unlike Fairygirl and others I am a morning person so the extra hour in bed does not happen, I get up the same time and go to bed an hour earlier. My mad party and dancing days are over, slippers TV or a book with a smallish glass of Scottish fire water and that's me gone.
Frank.
I don't bother changing the kitchen clock its too high up so tomorrow it will tell the right time for six months. I wish we didnt change them. Spare a thought for all essential workers tonight. Many of them don't get paid for that extra hour they do, I know the police don't but not sure about the others. It must be great for the ones on duty in Spring though as the must get to go home early.
I know there's only a given amount of daylight, but why change so early? Tomorrow it'll be light at 6am when most are still asleep ,but dark at 6pm when most are up and about. That's the whole country having to switch on lights an hour earlier. Apart form the electricity suppliers, who does that help?
I spend my extra hour changing all my clocks and appliances with digital timers so don't really notice it
He isJust playing up RB!
Attention seeking I would call it if he was ten 
Love you. Verdun! 
Do not worry Runnybeak, we have his number, he will be out foxed by the posters on here, a crafty lot of mud pluggers, he could find his garden covered in china clay and think it has snowed.
Frank.