Have you remembered to put yer clock forward?

[SpottyDog]

Just in case.

(I didn't )

 

[Hilary]

I have, but it looks as though the DIS boards haven't yet!

 

[Astrid]

Well don't I feel a complete plank!!

I carefully remembered last night to change all the clocks etc. in the house, because I knew we were 'springing forward'.

Woken up by the kids this morning with breakfast in bed (eggs, hot cross buns, toast - ah how sweet!) and said to them that it was very early and they should still be in bed.

Oh dear, big oops, I'd put all the clocks BACK an hour instead of forward. So I'm now still sitting in bed at 9.50am completely out of sorts and feeling a complete and utter idiot!! Der!!

Astrid (the one with no brain!)

 

[WDWfan uk]

...... I think you all deserve a morning snooze or an afternoon nap Astrid
I prefer putting the clocks back and getting an extra hour's sleep, especially after a very late night! ( I suppose it means Spring has sprung though so I won't complain too much )

 

[Penny12]

I'm not sure, but last year our clocks changed a week earlier than the Americans (though changed back at the same time as ours in the Autumn) so maybe that's why the board clocks haven't changed...

I don't change the clocks myself until I get up...I can never remember which way they go, so just wait till the morning where I can look on teletext, hehehe.

Penny

 

[BONZO]

Oh Astrid!

Somehow I'm not suprised! - LOL

Only joking......he he

 

[Janice]

DH did all ours this morning when we got up - a lot of our electrical stuff, video, tv and hifi all had changed automatically

 

[caroley]

I do like it when electrical items change themselves. It takes ages to go round and change the clocks on everything.

My mom had the same mishap as Astrid. When she shouted up last night to say goodnight, we asked if she'd remembered to change her clocks. She said that yes, she'd just put them all back an hour. Poor old dear had to go and change them all again

 

[Hamther]

I checked Greenwich Meantime site re why our clocks changed today and US don't until next weeK. The simple answer is that the US has a law stating that clocks will always go forward the first Sunday of April:- http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/260.html

while in UK, this is based on the following rule:

"The Summer Time Act 1972 defined the period of British Summer Time to start at 2 am (GMT) on the morning of the day after the third Saturday in March or, if that was Easter Day, the day after the second Saturday. It was to end at 2 am (GMT) on the day after the fourth Saturday in October.

The duration of British Summer Time (BST) can be varied by Order of Council and in recent years has been changed so as to bring the date of the start of Summer Time into line with that used in Europe.

In 2002 an order was made to link UK summer time to Europe permanently. This means that the clocks will change over the Easter weekend which historically has not be the case."


Interestingly the GMT site states quite clearly that the new millennium began on January 1 2001!

Jackie