changing off the clock (winter time): classick / duddah

I might as well be a goth without the regular look and I fucking *HATE* winter hours and the disappearance of the sun, so die and be buried like the goth you are. ;-) I don't mind the extra bit of sleep, I admit. But I don't like coming home and the sun's already set right when I leave.

Ummm. If it hadn't kicked in, you would've been two hours late, ie this is FALL BACK, not SPRING FORWARD. If you were screwed up because of Daylight Savings Time, you'd have been early. You were just extrodinarily oversleeping.

But regardless, I think it's moronic. It's an outdated idea that is no longer necessary in today's world.

Ned is saying this of course from a southern corner of the U.S... where the sway from long days to long nights is nothing compared to Seattle -- or worse, London -- or even worse, Oslo -- or even worser, Reykjavik,etc. The 4am to 11pm days here were really nice around June, but I don't exactly how I'll feel about the 9:30am to 3pm days here cum late December.

• Saturday night, I sleep for an arbitary amount of time, until I wake up. I also stay up late to see if my radio-controlled alarm clock will reset itself, around half past three.
• Sunday evening, I stay up until it looks like it's getting late on the clock.
• Late Sunday evening, I've allegedly had an extra hour's sleep, and I'm feeling cocky. I stay up a little longer.
• Sunday night, unknown to me, I have not enjoyed the much promised extra hour of sleep, but have in fact endured an extra hour's waking.

Thus:
• Monday morning, I sleep through 15 minutes of Sara Cox and an hour of beeping. I remember neither.
• Later Monday morning, despite being in a great hurry, I am forced to post a long and rambling complaint to air this grievance.

Hemispherocentrist!

Good luck, British ILXors! Please stay indoors and try to survive through the night ;_;

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/208433

Clocks going back means an extra hour in bed, so if anything people will be getting up an hour early, not oversleeping.

You British are very dramatic about the time change.

I like "falling back." Extra hour of sleep. BOO-YA.

i don't get an extra hour of sleep because i just stay up to the time i normally would, which with the clock having turned back is an hour later than usual :(

wtf with that article, like somebody said, you get to SLEEP IN

Facts don't matter, the only thing that counts is that some people seem to like reading "EVERYBODY PANIC! OUTRAGE as Europe/muslims/foreigners force us proud Britons to (whatever crap we just made up)!" articles.

Forgot completely about the clocks change, now I'm up for work an hour early and it's very cold and unpleasant. As if working on a Sunday morning wasn't bad enough - I would have really enjoyed that extra hour under the sheets.

Haha I liked the recommendation of the group in that article: just keep pushing the hour forward in the summer and never take it back. I'm no chronometry expert, but wouldn't doing that eventually really screw things up? Like after 24 years of that wouldn't the UK be a full day ahead of everybody else?

I like "falling back." Extra hour of sleep. BOO-YA.

I like it because I can go to bed really late, like 2 in the morning, and still get up at 8 on Sunday, with no ill effects. It's almost like getting an extra half day free.

I like how they think putting different timings on the exact same length of daylight will make people go out more. Hey, old people! Don't like going out in the dark? Let's called the dark time 7pm instead of 6pm and then you can stay out for a whole extra hour (which you won't go out in at the other end of the day because it's darker later in the morning as a result because we're not actually inventing extra fucking daylight here!)

btw Americans, Britain doesn't really think like this, just insaniacs at the Daily Express. We've been successfully negotiating the clocks changing twice a year for forever with barely a whimper.

US not falling back until first week of November now. It sucks because the sky doesn't get light until nearly 8 am, and my family's been running late because we can't get up in the dark (me especially.)

ha, maybe I am a Daily Express insaniac, but I think there are good reasons for sticking with BST! The main one I usually bring out is that while avoiding schoolchildren having to go to school in the dark is often cited as a good reason for changing, the reality is that 1. up here it's soon enough gonna be dark in the morning anyway, and 2. children are more likely to be taken to school by their parents in the morning and make their own way home at night, so if safety is the issue then evening light is the better thing to have.

I dunno if staying up till 6am then sleeping till 1pm counts as taking advantage of this change. I think yes, in my current state 1pm is a reasonable-ish time to get up while 2pm is not (who knows what my precise rationality is), so hooray.

I managed to be an hour late for work. My clock radio changed time automatically but I hadn't thought it would so had put the alarm an hour later. Doh.

Facts don't matter, the only thing that counts is that some people seem to like reading "EVERYBODY PANIC! OUTRAGE as Europe/muslims/foreigners force us proud Britons to (whatever crap we just made up)!" articles.

(1) no one actually reads the daily express (2) you are forwarding links to the daily express.

Ok, good point.