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END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Cleoriff — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:31:12 GMT

At 2am Sunday morning (27th Oct), it's time to turn back the clocks (End of BST).

This gives us all an hour extra in bed.

It's also the start of dark mornings and dark nights!

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Enlli — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:37:59 GMT

Lighter mornings, darker nights and a rise of 11% in road traffic accidents in the following week

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pgn — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 09:50:52 GMT

Fall back, yes.

About time they gave it back to us 🕰️

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Enlli — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 10:09:44 GMT

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Cleoriff — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 10:28:15 GMT

@Enlli wrote:
Lighter mornings, darker nights and a rise of 11% in road traffic accidents in the following week

Yes it is LIGHTER in the morning for a short while....until it reaches December.

Then it's blackout time .....for those of us with S.A.D.'s 😂

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Oxonian — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:37:42 GMT

In Winter :-

you go to work in the dark ; you travel home in the dark ; and all day they keep you in the dark ! 🤣

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TallTrees — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:40:59 GMT

Thank you @Cleoriff ❤️

🤗

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pgn — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:46:35 GMT

@Oxonian wrote:
In Winter :-

you go to work in the dark ; you travel home in the dark ; and all day they keep you in the dark ! 🤣

Mushrooms? 🤔

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Enlli — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:22:03 GMT

@Oxonian wrote:
In Winter :-

you go to work in the dark ; you travel home in the dark ; and all day they keep you in the dark ! 🤣

The capitalist system.

Our medieval ancestors were not expected to work in the dark. Tradesman were fined by their guild if they did.

And on another note, medieval peasants had far more holidays than their modern counterparts.

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Oxonian — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:43:53 GMT

Precisely @Enlli, spot on ! 👍

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pgn — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:41:58 GMT

Whilst some will get an extra hour's 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 countryside.

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

pgn — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:19:11 GMT

T'is done:

🕰️😖

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Cleoriff — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 08:05:12 GMT

Yes indeed 😂

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Oxonian — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:49:51 GMT

I hope everyone enjoyed their extra hour in bed ; it should happen every night in my view. 🌓

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Bambino — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:56:53 GMT

Here's a little help for anyone who forgot.

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Cleoriff — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 19:12:19 GMT

Excellent idea @Bambino 😂

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TallTrees — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 19:20:05 GMT

👍@Bambino

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pgn — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:49:46 GMT

Handy when moving from a km/h to an mph country, as hereabouts... Love the clockface for BST to GMT 🤣

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RunrigForever — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 22:16:28 GMT

Can't say I like the dark early evenings much at all. I was told in the pub it is to do with the farmers. I thought it was so schoolchildren could go to school in daylight and get home in the daylight just, many years ago. I remember one year when someone decided not to change the clocks = didn't like that much either.

Like you @Cleoriff I suffer with SAD - & the quality of the actual daylight we do get is so poor 😞

Re: END OF BST (Clocks Back)

Oxonian — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 16:42:54 GMT

There have been various iterations over the years @RunrigForever ; these include Double BST during WWII, which was an energy saving measure :-

Facts about Daylight Savings in the UK - BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zj76vj6

Whatever happened to Double Summer Time? | Iain Hollingshead | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jun/24/comment.mainsection2

GMT, BST, WW2 Double Summer Time and the 'right' time

https://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-time.htm

The trouble is that whatever clock we adopt, there will be some who like it and some who do not ! 👍