Marmite!! Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Don't forget to alter your clocks as BST ends at 2am today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosie Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Don't forget to alter your clocks as BST ends at 2am today...I know it flippin ended, must have stopped the world with a jolt! I came to at 2.30am to hear movement in the kitchen, I went to investigate and found my eldest making his breakfast :shocked: well I dont like to see food wasted, so made him eat it then go back to bed, which he did for 2 hours :argh::argh::argh: so I have been awake since 4.30 which was then turned into 3.30!!!!!!!!!To give him the benifit of the doubt, it is his birthday party today so I suppose he is excited!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowtracdave Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Um..........is the clock right on here.......only Rosies post says 8.49 and my puter says its 8.32 ?:-D Jack............Don't forget to change your clocks...oh..thats right - he's in forn parts this weekend isnt he . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I allways have two clocks in my room.one is right and one is wrong.then the clock change arrives,and the one that is right is now wrong,and the one that was wrong is now right,trouble is i allways look at the one thats wrong,whot day is it anyway?:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I allways have two clocks in my room.one is right and one is wrong.then the clock change arrives,and the one that is right is now wrong,and the one that was wrong is now right,trouble is i allways look at the one thats wrong,whot day is it anyway?:confused: I find it worse than jetlag, going to be messed up for the week now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I find it worse than jetlag, going to be messed up for the week now Simple answer Richard, ignore the clocks, start work with daylight, finish at twilight like they used to do years ago.:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Simple answer Richard, ignore the clocks, start work with daylight, finish at twilight like they used to do years ago.:-D That is a good idea Degsy, for those of us not tied to a strict working time :tup:: also saves on electric for lighting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 That is a good idea Degsy, for those of us not tied to a strict working time :tup:: also saves on electric for lighting Eggsackly:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 I always seemed to be Guard Commander the night the clocks changed. In the Spring we'd get an extra hour on stag; in the Autumn we had an hour's less sleep. I always made a point of making an entry in the Occurrences Book (the top of each page inside described it as the Occurences Book): "0200 reset the Guard Room clock to (whatever time)." Saved any argument with the RSM afterward about what time subsequent events happened. In Paderborn, the Master Chef had the bright idea of introducing Brunch on a Saturday and a Sunday. Although we paid (by direct deduction at source) for three meals a day, seven days a week, it was extremely inefficient if only a handful of people on duty turned up for breakfast at the weekend. That said, Brunch was still divided into Breakfast and Lunch - the cooks simply stopped doing a full English Breakfast and removed the cereal and started doing more lunchy meals - and clock-change Sunday always saw somebody roll in for Breakfast at lunchtime or vice-versa. These people were probably lucky they were not on Guard as they'd probably have rolled up an hour late for Guard Mount. Extras, extras, read all about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woa2 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Last week I was on a boat going to Spain. We had to put the clocks forward 1 hour as Spain was on European time and UK was on BST. 2 days later, we went to Guernsey and they had just gone from BST to GMT so we had to go back 2 hours. Think I am getting used to it now...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 The cuurent discusion in the Island's is wether to go to European time. just when you thought it was safe to go visiting. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woa2 Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 The cuurent discusion in the Island's is wether to go to European time. just when you thought it was safe to go visiting. :-D I wish the UK would go to European time - more lighter evenings. I know it's darker in the mornings, but I think the lighter evenings are worth it - more chance to play with my MV. I remember one year the UK stayed at BST for a Winter. Could we do this again or am I veering into Politics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 In the late 60s or early 70s the UK spent about three years on "British Standard Time," another name for British Summer Time. What grates with me is that the rest of the world have decided that GMT is whatever the time is in Greenwich, and if it happens not to be Time Zone Zulu, it must be GMT Daylight Saving Time. Screwed up? Not half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Don't mention the French!! They got the right hump because Greenwich was chosen as the prime meridain, for many years they sulked and stuck to the Paris Meridian, I belive the decider was that the Britsh Admiralty charts were far superior to anything else, and were all based on Greenwhich. Anyway is it not Universal Time Constant (UTC) now? There is a slight diffrence from Greenwich but the plebs like us would never notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Don't mention the French!! They got the right hump because Greenwich was chosen as the prime meridain, for many years they sulked and stuck to the Paris Meridian, I belive the decider was that the Britsh Admiralty charts were far superior to anything else, and were all based on Greenwhich. Anyway is it not Universal Time Constant (UTC) now? There is a slight diffrence from Greenwich but the plebs like us would never notice. Yes indeed. If you read 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, you'll note that Jules Verne always used longitude east or west of Paris. Of course the Americans now use all their time based on US nautical data. Soon enough they'll feel brave enough to unilaterally move the datum point to the USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Which meridan though? Coca Cola's HQ, Mc Donald's, maybe KFC as an outsider? Pepsi would certanly put in an objection. :sweat: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 .. and BANG, there goes the Vatican's Hovis contract. Oops, sorry wrong joke: "... give us this day our daily meat." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 :sweat::sweat::sweat::n00b: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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