Twice a year I get up on my soap box for a rare moan and I'm normally such a placid soul.
Personally I don't see the point of it (changing time I mean, not the moan). For one thing it's outdated in the 21st century with global communication and 24/7 living.
Don't give me the one about young children, they should be escorted to and from school anyway. And the dark doesn't stop the older ones going out.
What about the very young and animals - they don't know they have to wait an hour to be fed, milked or whatever then have to re-adjust again in 5 month's time.
There's no point in protesting to the politicians, they'll probably change night into day just to be more awkward! ha ha
I'm going on strike, I've changed the clocks and declared my house a GMT zone. I've always had one clock permanently on GMT now all the clocks are going to stay that way.
There, that's got that moan out of the way.
Ah! just noticed the computer clock, now shall I or shan't I?
2007-10-27 23:43:38 · 29 answers · asked by Florence-Anna 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Hell no, its great it means i get an hour lie in.......i just hate it in the summer when i have to get up an hour early.........ugh..........cant they just keep putting them back?!
HAHAHAHAHA you sound like one funny lady. well stand up for what you believe in, and good on ya! just remember the tv times will change and all your friends might have changed their clocks...so when they say i'll meet you at 12 it could cause confusion!
2007-10-27 23:46:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Funny you should mention that. As I turned on my computer this morning, the computer told me that it had updated my time to PST (Pacific Standard Time, I live in California). Well that is all well and good except they made a new law that they would extend PDST (Pacific Daylight Savings Time) for one more week, so the time change (Fall Back) does not happen till next Sunday. I figured I would just have to go back and change the clock next week myself, so let the computer make the change. So I guess my computer clock will be off an hour till next week.
Besides it is already starting to get darker at night earlier already, and has been for a couple of weeks or so.
2007-10-28 14:50:09 · answer #2 · answered by Moe 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm in the states, but I hate it, too. In Indiana we just started changing last year. I leave my car clock on standard time year 'round, but doing it in the whole house would drive me insane. It's bad enough that we have to get up before the son, but to have the clock tell me I'm getting up an hour earlier in the summer would be really depressing! Make it a global complaint! I'm with you!
2007-10-28 22:14:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not in the UK, I am in Texas USA, but I hate it also. Over here they have started setting them a week early and a week late. I hate it. when I was a kid in the fifties and sixties we stayed on the same time all year. The sun would set in summer around 8.30pm and nearly 9 on the longest days and in winter it would be dark around 6pm sometimes 5:30. Winter still is the same but summer it can still be daylight way after 9pm
I remember a few years in the 1970's we stayed on daylight saving time all year and even that was okay because at least we did not have to set clocks back or forward.
WR
2007-10-28 08:28:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I used to moan about it until my first son was born when we had the three year experiment 1968 to 1971 when the clocks did not change, I hated it
2007-10-28 18:40:10 · answer #5 · answered by Diamond 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL! good one..and I agree actually.
I didn't mind the clocks going back (As I gain an hour extra at the weekend) but I got up earlier anyhow!
I think it was to do with farming tho wasn't it?...to make the most of the light nights?...well, thats what I am lead to believe anyhow!
But I dont see why they just cant leave them alone...I hate the dark nights!
2007-10-28 07:36:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I'm in the UK, and I hate the dark evenings. Is there anyone else on here who can remember that experiment (was it late 60s?), I think it was for three years, when they didn't change? It's all supposed to be for the farmers, but these days, when everyone has electricity, is it necessary? I suppose it's better than in the war, when the change was 2 hours.
2007-10-28 12:28:22 · answer #7 · answered by steffi 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Florence start a petition up and I will sign it. I am with you all the way, it is absolutely stupid that a thing that did work in the war years and was a necessity is still going on after 60 years.The work involved changing clocks all over the country is so stupid. We all should moan about this to our MPs.then again they don't listen do they.
2007-10-28 07:39:22 · answer #8 · answered by billybags 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it something to do with farming?
But the measurment oftime is a human invention, so does seem pointless.
Also, I spent the first hour of this morning in a state of mini-confusion because half of my clocks were saying one time, and the othe half was saying another.
I also thought they got changed tonight, so have missed out on my lie-in.
2007-10-28 06:48:54 · answer #9 · answered by Hatters 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think they change for the politicians so they could play more golf.I wish we could go back to the old time so we could still go to the drive -in theater in the summer time. We still have one in Shelby, North Carolina . I think it is $10 a car load. But to see the 2 movies you got to be there at least until one o'clock.Plus it is so dark for the children who takes a school bus iln the morning.
2007-10-28 07:11:44 · answer #10 · answered by Livelife 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋