HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE CLOCKS GOING BACK?

Not that I know of. Read my post above.

We (Portugal) is still on GMT. No problem with the cats this morning, little angels. I was awake early as usual.

 

I believe the initial reasoning behind messing with the clocks in the northern and southern hemispheres was to give an extra hours daylight in the summer months for people to enjoy.

In the UK, at the height of summer, we have around 16-17hrs of daylight a day as it is!!! It doesn't matter to me whether we have this "extra" hour in the morning, or at night.

There are that many time zones in the world as it is, though you obviously can't get away from that, but messing with the clocks as well is just unnecessary imo.

I was talking to a guy in Canada yesterday about this. He said when the clocks go back and forth over there they have to stagger it over a few days because of all the different time zones in just one country.

 

I am still enjoying my extra hour and am still in bed! The rest of the day I will go round saying it's really so and so in old time. By tomorrow I will have stopped.

 

Changing the clocks doesn't change how many hours of daylight there are in any given day. That's defined by the Earth's axial tilt, 23.5 degrees or so at present (it changes very gradually). If it wasn't tilted everyone would get 12 hours day and 12 hours night all year round). Putting the clocks back or forward just changes the time of sunrise and sunset.

It would be nice to be retired with no commitments and wake up when I wake up, but for now I need the alarm clock whether or not it's light at getting-up-for-work time.

 

Totally agree @JennyJB ......... makes no difference unless you have a regular commitment which involves being "on time" somewhere.

 

So do I, Perki, and the perceived 'benefit' in the morning is of such short duration whereas the shock of longer, darker evenings is immediate.
Like a lot of things in the EU, Brussels couldn't get it's member countries to agree on a set time. Perhaps understandable when it covers so many different time zones anyway. IIRC, the general public in most countries were unanimous in wanting the clock changes scrapped. So why doesn't the EU just bin the whole idea and allow each country to set it's own, permanent time? That's how it worked before and people seemed to cope OK with the concept of changing their watches when they travelled. Which they still have to do

 

I came across this article from the Royal Museum at Greenwich which is quite interesting. I was looking to see if I could find out about the clocks not changing around the early 70s and was pleased to find that I hadn't dreamt it .

British Summer Time (BST) and Daylight Saving - understanding UK time changes.

 

In our house, the EU, Brussels, et al, have no jurisdiction whatsoever. In our house, the time is what Mrs Lao decides it to be, and that never changes, and I am very happy with that!

 

Indeed. I have to start at 5 or 4:30 during winter months, which is even for me not my preferred time.

 

How to use your extra hr wisely ... not!

Decide to cook with newly purchased saucepan. Attempt to peel off sticky label. Fail. Apply warm damp cloth. No luck. Add washing-up liquid. Soak pan for 10 mins and retry. Repeat. Get scrubbing brush. Apply brute force. Re-soak. Repeat. Mutter darkly under breath whilst searching out sodium bicarb and make paste. Apply in soft circular motion. Add pressure. Add brute force. Re-soak. Have another go. Mix more paste and lather on. Rub aggressively. Consider giving up. Consider marching pan back to Home Sense. Refuse to be beaten. Persevere ... and finally ...

... exhausted, retire to sofa wondering where the day has gone, but quietly triumphant as pan is now ready for use ... when the energy to do has accumulated.

 

It was on the outside ... but not the base. Near the top by the handle, so a sticky residue would have been a pain.

Anyway ... sorted ... though not without more time and effort than should be necessary.

 

Methylated spirit usually gets glue off, but not from a window frame I was cleaning the other day. I was near the garage and tried some T-cut. It worked immediately .

 

I used to like the change as part of the rhythm of the seasons, but I find I don't adapt as quickly as I used to.

On the wider point my understanding is that time in the UK only became standard with the coming of the railway as it was impossible to have a fixed timetable for trains with multiple time zones over relatively short distances. It's all artificial anyway, only because we had an empire and the Royal Navy decided the 12noon would be the Sun's zenith at Greenwich.