In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October.
The period when the clocks are 1 hour ahead is called British Summer Time (BST). There's more daylight in the evenings and less in the mornings (sometimes called Daylight Saving Time).
When the clocks go back, the UK is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Daylight saving time 2017 in United Kingdom will start at
01:00 on Sunday, 26 March (i.e. forward 1 hour)
and will end at 02:00 on Sunday,29 October (i.e. back one hour)
All times are in United Kingdom Time.
It's all designed to give people more leisure time during daylight evening hours in the Summer months. Although there are complaints that it means kids going to and from school in the dark, especially in Scotland.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Wot? Clocks going forward and back ? Ya can't have 'em Christoph Waltzing about the ruddy house ! Ya wouldn't know if it woz the passage of time or time going up the passageway. Nail the clocks to the bloody wall, that's what I say .... and don't give me any of this Special Relatives Saturday stuff or General Argey-Bargey with moving clocks. I know me physiks ..... :-))))
.... seriously I reckon Einstein woz p*ssed as a parrot when he came it with that poncy time-stretchy crap .... he woz just late home from the pub that's all .... needed an excuse .... warped Kevin Spacey-Timey ? Bert merely got lost after he dropped his fag and then bent down & picked it up. Lost his bearings on the way back up .... talk about drunk in charge of a cigarette .... cripes I've had a moment myself ... I thought I had a lucid thought but no, it woz just a loose thought ..... oi where are you going ? I woz contemplating that infinity ...... put it back on the bar .... and the lighter too .... giz us a fag would ya ? .... no, I don't know who drew that on the Kylie Minogue poster ....
Cheers, Bazza.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Well I reckons that this time business has got a ruddy sauce myself. I mean to say, I didn't invite it into my house yet it waltzes up and down the passageways without a by your leave, then sashays along the upstairs landing as well. Bit of a cheek really 'int it? All down to some old bloke with a beard and an egg timer that can't afford a decent watch. Dunno what the world's coming to.
And as for that Einstein bloke he got it all wrong from day 1. Space is space innit? You have a box, you open it, dodge some fools cat that got shut in there, and there it is. Look in it for long enough and there has been an elapse between the two events from when you first looked in and when you stopped looking in. The more enlightened species in the universe divide their planets rotation into 37 yingtongs and the circulation around their star into 489 thingamybobs.But of course it helps when you have 7 toes and 9 fingers.
Curvature of time & space is when you stagger home from the pub, which takes a long time bent double, because you can't stand up. Gravity is what her indoors will give you when you finally get there.
Irish window opens with a creak
"Is that yourself down there?
"Bejabers, I'm wrecked!"
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October.
It's all designed to give people more leisure time during daylight evening hours in the Summer months. Although there are complaints that it means kids going to and from school in the dark, especially in Scotland.
When I lived in Alaska as a kid I WISH that would have been a valid excuse, we would only have had school for about an hour or so every day for a LONG time!! I lived just outside Fairbanks for 3 years in my early teens and walked to school everyday despite the 50+ BELOW zero F temps in the Winter or the 90+ ABOVE zero F temps in the Summer!! We had to put aluminum foil on the windows to keep the Sun out in the Summer time, but had to go to and from school in the dark in the Winter time!! Don't get me wrong as a kid it was mostly FUN, as a parent now though I now see the other side of that!!
Every Winter there was a huge party one night of the year where everyone would go up onto this small mountain and 'party until the Sun went down', the point is it DIDN'T go down that night!! The Sun would go down until the bottom of it just touched the horizon and then pop right back up it would come rising again for a new day!! Even the kids got to stay up for that night.
ROTFL no, a pushmepullyou is
ROTFL no, a pushmepullyou is a fictional animal in Dr Doolittle.
Pushemepullyou
If that doesn't make Kathryn laugh, nothing will do :-)
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
For those of us in the US
For those of us in the US (and elsewhere) don't forget to "spring ahead" this weekend.
robl wrote:For those of us in
Except Arizona and, I think, parts of Indiana.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
In the UK the clocks go
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Wot? Clocks going forward and
Wot? Clocks going forward and back ? Ya can't have 'em Christoph Waltzing about the ruddy house ! Ya wouldn't know if it woz the passage of time or time going up the passageway. Nail the clocks to the bloody wall, that's what I say .... and don't give me any of this Special Relatives Saturday stuff or General Argey-Bargey with moving clocks. I know me physiks ..... :-))))
.... seriously I reckon Einstein woz p*ssed as a parrot when he came it with that poncy time-stretchy crap .... he woz just late home from the pub that's all .... needed an excuse .... warped Kevin Spacey-Timey ? Bert merely got lost after he dropped his fag and then bent down & picked it up. Lost his bearings on the way back up .... talk about drunk in charge of a cigarette .... cripes I've had a moment myself ... I thought I had a lucid thought but no, it woz just a loose thought ..... oi where are you going ? I woz contemplating that infinity ...... put it back on the bar .... and the lighter too .... giz us a fag would ya ? .... no, I don't know who drew that on the Kylie Minogue poster ....
Cheers, Bazza.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I hate it when I'm wide awake
I hate it when I'm wide awake at 3am and getting sleepy when I need to get up at 6.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Well I reckons that this time
Well I reckons that this time business has got a ruddy sauce myself. I mean to say, I didn't invite it into my house yet it waltzes up and down the passageways without a by your leave, then sashays along the upstairs landing as well. Bit of a cheek really 'int it? All down to some old bloke with a beard and an egg timer that can't afford a decent watch. Dunno what the world's coming to.
And as for that Einstein bloke he got it all wrong from day 1. Space is space innit? You have a box, you open it, dodge some fools cat that got shut in there, and there it is. Look in it for long enough and there has been an elapse between the two events from when you first looked in and when you stopped looking in. The more enlightened species in the universe divide their planets rotation into 37 yingtongs and the circulation around their star into 489 thingamybobs.But of course it helps when you have 7 toes and 9 fingers.
Curvature of time & space is when you stagger home from the pub, which takes a long time bent double, because you can't stand up. Gravity is what her indoors will give you when you finally get there.
Irish window opens with a creak
"Is that yourself down there?
"Bejabers, I'm wrecked!"
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Chris S_2 wrote: In the UK
Late lunch is almost
Late lunch is almost over.
Next year, lunch will be late every Wednesday instead of once a month.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
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