Clocks go forward tonight?

[Hoofy]

Why have I not heard about this on the radio? Odd.

[DonnyMac]

Hoofy said:

Why have I not heard about this on the radio? Odd.

So how do you know, or did you guess?

If you guessed, you're a really good guesser!

[Hoofy]

DonnyMac said:

So how do you know, or did you guess?

If you guessed, you're a really good guesser!

Friend told me! I mean I guessed based on psychic abilities. This needs to go in the Science! section. AICMMD (Million Dollars).

[thinfourth2]

And it is nothing whatsoever to do with the wobble in the earths orbit

It is actually because of the federation of scottish farmers are moving their deathstar into a different orbit so they can employ the tractor beams to tow the planet earth into a different orbit to punish the evil tories

[ZOLLAR]

DonnyMac said:

Hoofy said:

Why have I not heard about this on the radio? Odd.

So how do you know, or did you guess?

If you guessed, you're a really good guesser!

[Murph7355]

Hoofy said:

Why have I not heard about this on the radio? Odd.

In case they've not mentioned it on the radio, today's Saturday.

And the year is 2012.

[EDLT]

I start work at 6am, tomorrow will be st.

[Hoofy]

Murph7355 said:

In case they've not mentioned it on the radio, today's Saturday.

And the year is 2012.

I'm not falling for that!

[AJS-]

What a stupid custom. They don't do it here in Thailand. It's the ultimate example of government fiddling, thinking they can make more daylight by fiddling with clocks. These people run the economy on the same principles, which explains a lot.

[EDLT]

AJS- said:

What a stupid custom. They don't do it here in Thailand. It's the ultimate example of government fiddling, thinking they can make more daylight by fiddling with clocks. These people run the economy on the same principles, which explains a lot.

It isn't really "these people", the ones who decided to start fiddling with the clocks haven't been in power for a very long time. Changing the tradition, as we've seen recently, is very difficult.

[AJS-]

Is it really that difficult? The "tradition" is less than 100 years old, and although I'm sure a few people would huff and puff I can hardly see a violent backlash, or descent into anarchy ensuing from deciding not to muck around with our watches this year.

[EDLT]

I take it you missed the thousands of threads full of ranting Daily Mailers when it was suggested we stay on BST permanently?

[Einion Yrth]

EDLT said:

I take it you missed the thousands of threads full of ranting Daily Mailers when it was suggested we stay on BST permanently?

Because, logically if we're going to stay on anything permanently it should be GMT.

[anonymous-user]

AJS- said:

What a stupid custom. They don't do it here in Thailand. It's the ultimate example of government fiddling, thinking they can make more daylight by fiddling with clocks. These people run the economy on the same principles, which explains a lot.

. Don't they leave the time in Thailand as you're nearer the equator and get much less variation between sunset and sunrise throughout the year than we do at higher latitudes?

[Deva Link]

AJS- said:

What a stupid custom. They don't do it here in Thailand. It's the ultimate example of government fiddling, thinking they can make more daylight by fiddling with clocks. These people run the economy on the same principles, which explains a lot.

Is it a bit of pain if you do a lot of internation confernce calls - the US moved theirs 2 weeks. Israel doesn't change until next weekend. So you have to be really careful to get the times right.

[Halb]

DonnyMac said:

So how do you know, or did you guess?

He really just looked at he sun, like Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee.

Let's just have BST and stick to it.

[groucho]

No way!!! GMT!

[thinfourth2]

The basic problem is you start work 3 hours before midday and finish 5 hours after midday which means you have little light after the working day. But its not the working day that it is wrong its the time the sun reaches its peak that is the problem and this is decided upon apparently by the federation of scottish farmers

I mean why else is it called GMT which everyone knows is Glasgow Mean Time where the base of the federation of scottish farmers is.

[Halb]

groucho said:

No way!!! GMT!

No!! BST!!!

[SirBlade]

Hoofy said:

Why have I not heard about this on the radio? Odd.

Clocks go forward 1h at 01:00 on the 25th.