The Clocks

[BlowingOldBoots]

Great, evenings that feel longer in the daylight.

[Aja]

Have you changed them already?

[BlowingOldBoots]

No. It’s an expectation. Everyone knows the date, don’t you?

[wully]

Old Indian saying “Only a white man is stupid enough to think cutting a foot off the bottom of a blanket and sewing onto the other end makes a longer blanket”

Or something.

I wish they’d just leave the clocks alone, do you know how long it takes me to change all the clocks twice a year?

[Gardenshed]

Everyone knows the date, don’t you?

or are you in the US and confused because they changed on a different date (10th March) to the UK (31st March)?

[Aja]

Great, evenings that feel longer in the daylight.

Great, evenings will feel longer in the daylight.

[BlowingOldBoots]

Jeeze! Reading too much into it folks.

[stevepick]

I don't do Bloody stupid/sh1tt time. My watch stays at GMT/UT. I claim it's to make navigation easy, but its really to remind me the Government/Society insist on me getting up early ,in summer, when I don't need to, and I can blame them for something else that makes me grumpy. I live in scotland, its always light in the evenings. When people, esp new crew, query this lifestyle choice, I put on my best rev Ian Paisley impersonation and proclaim that "GMT is the one true time" . If they stick on board after that, then they are keepers

[claymore]

The Father of Dear Heart was a farmer.
He believed that he was being kind to his moo cows and got the best yield by milking them twice a day - 12 hours apart.
He would stick resolutely to this policy and he cursed the moving of the clocks because he didn't feel the 'girls' could cope with the hours difference all in one hit - so he adjusted his time by around 5 minutes a week until he eventually was square with GMT. This gave him around 3 months when his clocks read similar times to the rest of us - then the clocks would alter and it all began again.
I used to love asking him what time it was!!