Clocks go back sunday october 27th (Europe)

I never get the extra hours sleep as merlin doesnt know we have the extra hour in bed and pesters me for breakfast at the old time , takes him a few days to sort it out
 
jimharri said:
I hate these next 3 months. If you're lucky, and you get a clear frosty day in mid January, you may notice a bit of a stretch in the evening. But up to Christmas is a gloomy time of the year.
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Don’t you find the period afterwards Jan/early Feb worse?
 
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.
 
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M23 Citizen said:
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.
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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 ;)
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Why do we still do this? Is there any benefit?
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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.
 
Oh dear, approaching the period of darkness at both ends of the day, which I hate.
 
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