Clocks go back sunday october 27th (Europe)

[BimboBob]

Boy am I glad you pointed this out. Didn't it happen last year too?

Nope. Blame Starmer.

 

[M23 Citizen]

Did you know that, across Britain, we used to have our own time in each town in the country, based on the Solar Noon?

The time was never the same from one place to the next, but the time was accurate everywhere because the only barometer for what time it is, is the point at which the Sun hits the Local Meridian means it’s Noon (but there only, at that point).

It was the introduction of the railways that saw a standard time for the whole country introduced. Because people could travel from one place to another more quickly than ever before, they were finding that they were missing trains, Royal Mail were finding that they were missing deliveries, and people were arriving at places at the wrong time because where a train might set off from one location at 3pm and be expected to arrive in another location 30 minutes later, it was only 30 minutes later than the time where the train set off, but the train didn’t arrive at the other location 30 minutes later in their local time… so a standard time was introduced for everywhere.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Why do we still do this? Is there any benefit?

 

[NZBlue]

Oh great. The time of year when I miss the first half of a few matches.

Well look how many of the matchgoers seem to miss the second halves after leaving early :-)

 

[Barcon]

Well look how many of the matchgoers seem to miss the second halves after leaving early :-)

Haha. True.

 

[Uwe Already]

Did you know that, across Britain, we used to have our own time in each town in the country, based on the Solar Noon?

The time was never the same from one place to the next, but the time was accurate everywhere because the only barometer for what time it is, is the point at which the Sun hits the Local Meridian means it’s Noon (but there only, at that point).

It was the introduction of the railways that saw a standard time for the whole country introduced. Because people could travel from one place to another more quickly than ever before, they were finding that they were missing trains, Royal Mail were finding that they were missing deliveries, and people were arriving at places at the wrong time because where a train might set off from one location at 3pm and be expected to arrive in another location 30 minutes later, it was only 30 minutes later than the time where the train set off, but the train didn’t arrive at the other location 30 minutes later in their local time… so a standard time was introduced for everywhere.

Mad as it sounds there were clocks for it - corn exchange in Bristol has a GMT and local time clock still https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/corn-exchange-dualtime-clock

Also, it’s my birthday Sunday so I get an extra hour for it ;)

 

[hilts]

Don’t you find the period afterwards Jan/early Feb worse?

Agree Jan and Feb are just depressing

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Why do we still do this? Is there any benefit?

Probably the cost of changing, or at least needing to review, all the software and technology that’s been programmed to automatically adjust displayed time is one reason. Between 1968 and 71 the UK stayed on BST but decided to return to DST because they couldn’t tell if it was beneficial or not.

 

[KS55]

Oh dear, approaching the period of darkness at both ends of the day, which I hate.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Just glad I no longer work...at least I get the benefit of it going/coming from work and it being light while I'm inside.

Got the Grandson with us this weekend, 18 months old and won't take the hour into account.