ooh the night's are drawing in aren't they?

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as they say.

anyone forget to put the clocks back?
i notice the pc did it automatically for me. clever thing.

― piscesboy, Monday, 1 November 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I was an hour early for work on Sunday. was absolutely disgusted, especially considering I didn't get home until 5 in the morning after the night before. would have killed for that extra hour in bed

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago)

It's kinda depressing to wake up in the morning and realize the sun hasn't even come up yet.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago)

For some reason I thought it was on Sunday night that they went back, possibly because people said it was 'on halloween' (and they were technically right, but that's the worst kind of right). Didn't matter to me though, I had nothing to do. It's cold today though, and theres there's a low, fat, yellow moon - it very much feels like November.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

I was kinda disappointed that my year-old, state-of-the-art cell phone didn't automatically change the time.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago)

On Saturday night, I was finally on my way back to the crib after so much insanity revolving around pubs/music venues/drinking oriented establishments, which all close here at 2:30 am. When my phone set the time back automatically at 3:00 to 2:00, I yelled at my roommate to take me back to the pubs, because, logically, they had to reopen for another half hour.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago)

In Finland the clocks are turned back at 4AM, and the pubs and clubs that stay open 'til 4AM *do* get an extra hour, which a friend of mine noticed last year. Unfortunately, she also noticed that the night bus schedules *don't* care about the extra hour, so she missed her last bus.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I have to get up at 6.30 every day, so I'm used to getting up in the dark.

On Friday, though, as I was driving home, I suddenly realised that it would be the last time I'd get to drive home from work in daylight until March.

(plus, to get to and from work I have to drive down a narrow, twisty residential street called Woad Lane, which is horrible to have to drive down in rush hour in daylight, never mind having to do it in the dark)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 1 November 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago)

The first time you leave work in darkness is the Anti-First Outdoor Beer Of The Year. Unbelievably depressing. Almost as much so as the first time you leave for work in darkness, which is even worse (hopefully I won't have to do that this year).

Also, the door to our office is made of this really dark glass so it looks like you're stepping out into the black abyss.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 November 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago)

so otm. Dublin is like oppressively grey and dark right now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 1 November 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago)

pavement: worn-tarmac grey
buildings: granite grey (with potential to sparkle)
sky: grey grey

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 1 November 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago)

God, walking out of work at 5:30 pm and being greeted by the cold, rainy darkness was depressing.

My three year-old cell phone did update itself though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago)

i'm so glad.

Every morning I leave for work at 6am - it's a harrowing, white-knuckled drive through unfamiliar, winding backroads, single lane school bus bright lights madness, all in a thick, dark morning fog. Every day I expect to die in a head on collison.

Now I leave for work and I can see! I don't need the crummy headlights and neither do the oncoming cars. It rules. Safety rules. Daylight savings rules.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago)

My inner clock hasn't made the adjustment as yet. I keep staying up an hour late at night. Which of course, makes makes mornings that much less delightful.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago)

It's dark when I leave for work and when I leave work. Bah.

― M1chael Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ph1lip Ann0yman (Ferg), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:51 (twenty years ago)

We're on standard time now, daylight savings is what just ended.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 05:41 (twenty years ago)

It was kind of nice leaving work into the dark last night, it was all drizzly and cold and all the office buildings had their lights on inside and so the street was all glowing and shimmery.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago)

My cute wee cousin asked her mum if she could 'stay up to watch the clocks go back'. Altogether now.... Ahhhhhhhh

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Nice post, Cozen.

I did not forget, about the clocks. For one thing, Gary Lineker mentioned it, I think.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago)

I felt strangely energised by the darkness when I left work yesterday, and the greyness today was really okay. I found out that there is a summer version of SAD and I didn't just make it up, so maybe I was making myself think I had some kind of winter mania. I don't want to have summer SAD.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago)

I don't get seasonal disorder thingy. I'm sure of this...I seem to get the same amount of depression regardless of what time of year it is. Mind you, I still bet i'd find it hard to cope if I lived somewhere in a really high latitude where it is dark all the time in the winter.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm actually glad now that I work in an office with no windows. This way 5:00 could be anytime and I'm not depressed by working at 'night'.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Daylight saving has just started in sunny Aust. Hurrah. No more SAD

― Captain Obvious, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:00 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

I forgot about the clocks last night. I woke up this morning all horribly hungover and sat down at what I thought was 2pm to listen to the football on the radio, having decided I was too ill to eat food and go out to the pub to watch it. Except it hadn't started. Hurray! I now have this extra hour right now, and I am eating sausages and will attempt to leave the house in the next half a hour.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 30 October 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

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