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Post by Hofmeister on Oct 30, 2016 9:13:49 GMT
Whilst we get an extra hours sleep on Sunday, spare a thought for the National Trust Volunteers who work tirelessly through the night to move the stones back 1 hour at various stone circles around the country side. This is done twice a year to make sure the stones align correctly with the sun.
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Post by Humph on Oct 30, 2016 9:43:14 GMT
My wife has had to persuade me not to remove and throw our oven out into the back garden after my 9 failed attempts to reset the clock on it. She of course not only knew where the manual was, but took the trouble to read it...π
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2016 10:08:12 GMT
Do we really need to change the clocks? Whats wrong with GMT throughout the year. BST gives us stupidly long evenings. I know its nice sitting out until 10pm in June, but go away to most warmer climes, and by 8pm its pitch black and no-one seems to mind. Keeping GMT would still give us daylight until 9pm in the summer.
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Post by bromptonaut on Oct 30, 2016 10:18:03 GMT
Not that much faff these days as most appliances sort themselves out. Couple of radio/alarm clocks and CH timer already corrected. Still need to do oven and cars though.
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Post by sooty on Oct 30, 2016 10:23:51 GMT
Do we really need to change the clocks? Whats wrong with GMT throughout the year. BST gives us stupidly long evenings. I know its nice sitting out until 10pm in June, but go away to most warmer climes, and by 8pm its pitch black and no-one seems to mind. Keeping GMT would still give us daylight until 9pm in the summer. It's all about making best use of it. You don't have to sit out at 10pm in June. But if we didn't have bst then it would start getting light very early 3.something am and that's not much use to many people. Warmer climates closer to the climate tend not to have the large differences in daylight between summer and winter like what we have. So its less of an issue there.
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Post by Humph on Oct 30, 2016 10:24:25 GMT
Do we really need to change the clocks? Whats wrong with GMT throughout the year. BST gives us stupidly long evenings. I know its nice sitting out until 10pm in June, but go away to most warmer climes, and by 8pm its pitch black and no-one seems to mind. Keeping GMT would still give us daylight until 9pm in the summer. Now y'see, that's where I differ with you, daylight is far more useful to me late in the day than early. Evening dog walks, bike rides, children with more time to play out etc. Also, if people have to drive in the dark I'd rather they were doing it proportionately more in the morning when they're liable to be fresh and alert than at the end of a working day when they're tired and just want to get home. So my preference would be permanent BST. So neh.π
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Post by Hofmeister on Oct 30, 2016 10:33:06 GMT
Not that much faff these days as most appliances sort themselves out. Couple of radio/alarm clocks and CH timer already corrected. Still need to do oven and cars though. Faff? I have had to change two clocks, 2 wristwatches (another 6 to do when i wear them) Microwave, Oven, CH timer, two cars. Thats a faff. In anyones world. Specially when at the end of the day its not needed. I wouldn't mind we still end up going to work n the dark and coming home in the dark (well we did when we worked anyway)
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Post by hobbit on Oct 30, 2016 11:30:09 GMT
The only thing here that alters it's own time is this comp' - so I leave all the clocks on GMT all year round and just add the hour in my head when I look at them! - so much easier!
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Post by sooty on Oct 30, 2016 11:53:38 GMT
The only thing here that alters it's own time is this comp' - so I leave all the clocks on GMT all year round and just add the hour in my head when I look at them! - so much easier! The oh does the same with her car, she can't be bothered changing it over so just leaves it. Just found the ch control panel changes automatically.
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Post by WDB on Oct 30, 2016 13:46:58 GMT
I leave all the clocks on GMT all year round and just add the hour in my head when I look at them! - so much easier! Yeah, but you voted Leave, so daylight saving must seem scarily modern to you. π
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Post by Humph on Oct 30, 2016 14:06:42 GMT
Not that much faff these days as most appliances sort themselves out. Couple of radio/alarm clocks and CH timer already corrected. Still need to do oven and cars though. Faff? I have had to change two clocks, 2 wristwatches (another 6 to do when i wear them) Microwave, Oven, CH timer, two cars. Thats a faff. In anyones world. Specially when at the end of the day its not needed. I wouldn't mind we still end up going to work n the dark and coming home in the dark (well we did when we worked anyway) The Volvo not do it itself? Pity. Thought it would have had at least that feature...π
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Post by tyrednexited on Oct 30, 2016 14:45:20 GMT
The Volvo not do it itself? Pity. Thought it would have had at least that feature...π It's an alien concept to Volvo. No implementation of Daylight Saving Time in Sweden. It's either 24 hours of daylight in Summer, or 24 hours of darkness in Winter. (My BMW, god forbid, hadn't adjusted this morning. Went through the various settings, and, half an hour later, found I hadn't ticked the "adjust time automatically" box. Did that, and it went on-line to t'internet (Zwischennetz or something) and immediately corrected it! RDS time from the radio was always sufficient previously )
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Post by Hofmeister on Oct 30, 2016 16:15:07 GMT
Faff? I have had to change two clocks, 2 wristwatches (another 6 to do when i wear them) Microwave, Oven, CH timer, two cars. Thats a faff. In anyones world. Specially when at the end of the day its not needed. I wouldn't mind we still end up going to work n the dark and coming home in the dark (well we did when we worked anyway) The Volvo not do it itself? Pity. Thought it would have had at least that feature...π No, the Volvo is for people who are capable of changing clocks.
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Post by WDB on Oct 30, 2016 17:45:07 GMT
Like my BMW, then - I think. Haven't been out in it today so won't know till the morning. The E adjusts itself.
All I've adjusted are the bedside clock-radio (single button to toggle summer and winter) and the microwave. Everything else self-adjusts, except my weekday mechanical watch, which will have stopped by breakfast time anyway, so it's a simple matter to reset the time and set it off again.
No faff any more, then, but I'd still rather go GMT+1 in winter and +2 in summer. Once Scotland votes to secede that should be less of a concern; we can adjust our watches after showing our passports at Berwick.
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Post by Humph on Oct 30, 2016 19:44:29 GMT
I'd much rather have more daylight later in the day than earlier for private life reasons, as I mentioned above, but also it would be very handy for me anyway, to be on the same time zone as the rest of Northern Europe for work purposes. There is the Scotland issue but ultimately if you are a Scottish farmer surely you can just adjust your working hours to what suits your business?
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