Clocks Still Driving Me Mad

[ayabrea38]

I have just found yet another clock that needed it's time changing!!I cannot believe they are still showing up(the clocks that is).I do wish we could stay at one time or the other cos at this rate it will take me until October to change the clocks,only to have to change them back again.
Why is it we still change the clocks?OH said traditionalists are keeping it going,but then I thought do farmers still need the extra light or has technology sorted that problem?
Any views would be welcome

[redman41]

Agree ayabrea !
Personally I would rather see GMT all Year round in the UK.
I believe moving the Clocks forward 1Hr was to aid the Farmers during WWII. Might be another reason as well ??

[DTCwordfan]

Kids in winter time going to school - oft redundant when they are delivered by bus or Range Rover - and the farmers, redundant around here as they have farm equipment with powerful lights and will harvest etc up to 11pm.

[whiskeryron]

If you have so many clocks that you are finding it difficult to cope I suggest that you put them all except one in a special room & keep it locked until the time arrives when we have to put them back again then most of yours will have been done & you'll only need to alter one.

[ayabrea38]

Not that I know of.I understand in WW2 there was double BST where the clocks where 2 hours ahead,I suppose we should be glad they got rid of that!
I just hate remembering as a child when the clocks went forward,I had to go to bed in daylight and that hatred for BST has stayed with me.
Give me a cold dark night when you can snuggle into a warm jumper any night. :)

[ummmm]

Get rids of the clocks.

I have a clock on the laptop, PC, TV, phone, tablet, cooker, weighing scales...and they all update automatically.

[Prudie]

I'm quite pleased, I didn't know how to change the one in my car and it's now right for the first time in 6 months!

[ayabrea38]

But Wiskeryron,If I put all the clocks in one room,I would have to lock myself in that room also,cos I would not be able to see the time anywhere else in the house.(mind you,when the kids are arguing and OH moaning that sounds like a good idea!!)

[bookbinder]

Apparently, this started in 1916:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time

[ayabrea38]

Bloomin 'eck ummmm,that must be one set of scales.Think I have heard it all now.

[Prudie]

Although electronic none of these updated in my house on their own - the C Heating control, the cooker, the digital photo frame, the alarm clocks. They must be old.

[hc4361]

In June the sun rises at around 4.45 am and sets at around 21.20.

That's got to better than sunrise at 3.45 am and sunset and 20.20.

[DTCwordfan]

Add on 20 minutes for us in Cornwall......

[tamborine]

Time you joined the loop. Clocks & watches are outdated by todays gizmos & mobiles that update automatically, as does your radio & TV.

[stewey]

I'm really having a lot of trouble adjusting this clock:)
http://i62.tinypic.com/2r7t306.jpg

[tonyav]

Just put the little finger back an hour, stewey !
Have you started the renovation yet ?.

[stewey]

I'm waiting for some warm weather so that I can work on it outside. At one point in the long evolution of time-pieces, there was only an hour hand: people weren't at all concerned with minutes.

[tonyav]

Perhaps minutes hadn't been invented then, stewey ;-)

[Old_Geezer]

Replace them with radio controlled clocks. So much easier.

We still change the clocks because it makes sense to do so. Ideally we should arise around sunrise and thus get the most from the available sunlight. It's all very well saying one still can from individual choice but we all have to live in the same society and need folk doing much the same thing at the same time so everyone synchronises with everyone else.

[stewey]

Tocking, I mean talking about clocks and time, I love it when it’s 1:38 and someone asks me what time it is because then I can say “It’s twenty-two to two.” OK…I’ll get me hat:)

[jno]

hc4361 must surely have the right answer.

And a good case for double summer time: sunrise around 5.45 am and sunset around 22.20