Clocks back this weekends lads.

^^^^ Yow could do with ya clock goooing bak to gid the rest of us a chance !!!!!

Going back suits Gaze , gives him an extra hour to falsify his p/l

What a genius. Brilliantly hilarious, just never heard this one before.

Brexit ended this out of step moment in time.

I always use the well known phrase " Spring forward, Lean back."

what thyme do they go back?

Always leave bedside clock/radio unchanged from summertime , it just helps the brain to keep working . It can have a rest after this w/e .

If the clocks went back to one minute to eight ie 1959, the world would be a much better place.

The clock changes are a human invention. The sun keeps its annual cycle and I run my life by that when I can. I have been waking up a minute or 2 earlier each morning for a month now so the clock change will be no hardship.

sageform 27 Mar 24 16:20 
The clock changes are a human invention.

that why i said "lean back", its alot safer than "fall back"

rico, there are still many people who think that moving the clocks forward will create an extra hour of daylight! The sun and the earth move in a way that creates a variable day length and no mucking about with clocks will change that. Just get up when you wake (when the sun rises in my case) and sleep when you are tired. Never used an alarm clock unless I need be up at the middle of the night.

I recall an experiment in the 1960s where the clocks were left alone and there was a deluge of complaints mostly about children having to go to school in the dark.


The BST experiment
In the 1960s, the Government decided to test the support for continuous summertime. A three
year experiment was introduced from 1968-1971 when summertime (GMT+1) applied
throughout the year. This was given the name British Standard Time (BST).
The Government gave an undertaking that a comprehensive review would be carried out
before any decision was taken at the end of the BST experiment. The White Paper which
followed in 1970 (Cmnd 4512, Review of British Standard Time) pointed out that it was
impossible to quantify advantages and disadvantages and that a final decision would need to
rest largely on a qualitative decision.
The issue was debated in the Commons on 2 December 1970 and by a vote of 366 to 81 the
British Standard Time experiment was discontinued. It has since been alleged by groups in
favour of change that the outcome of this vote was affected by powerful lobbying by farmers,
the building industry and the Scots, who had overwhelmed a "silent majority". It has also
been alleged that this lobbying was helped by the Press, who had produced on their front
pages "lurid photographs of a few children injured on the way to school in the dark"

sparrow • March 27, 2024 7:37 PM GMT
I recall an experiment in the 1960s where the clocks were left alone and there was a deluge of complaints mostly about children having to go to school in the dark.

yes indeed, they gave us bright armbands, but that didn't stop me being knocked down and killed.

sageform 27 Mar 24 19:28 
rico, there are still many people who think that moving the clocks forward will create an extra hour of daylight!

thats correct..but,ewe loose an hours daylight in morn.

It is laughable. Farmers (I was one) can start and finish at any time they like! If I wanted to go racing, I would start early enough to get essential work done first and work again when I got back. The UK Stock Market used to start at 9.00 but when they started trading EU stocks they moved it to 8.00 to coincide with the other EU countries starting at 9.00. Not rocket science. Schools now start at different hours to avoid the rush hour etc. No business HAS to conform to 9-5 or any other time period.

respect.