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BST starts and GMT is over for another year :P (March 2010)

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JO
Joe
stevek2 posted:
you learn some pretty trivial stuff working for a brough council


There was me thinking you worked in a school. Then again, I don't know where I got that idea from.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Jugalug posted:
stevek2 posted:
you learn some pretty trivial stuff working for a brough council


There was me thinking you worked in a school. Then again, I don't know where I got that idea from.


I heard he was a moderator on another forum.

That's a hectic schedule.
ST
stevek2
I do work in a school, I said my council job was as a YTS trainee (which dates it to the 1980s)

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you learn some pretty trivial stuff working for a brough council (it was a YTS course which shows my age)


and I'm also a forum moderator elsewhere
JO
Joe
stevek2 posted:
and I'm also a forum moderator elsewhere


Are you? Why didn't you mention this before?
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
stevek2 posted:
it's more fun when the clock go back because some clocks don't have a function for going backwards so you have to advance them 11 hours

same applies for clocks with a chiming mechanism which cannot go backwards unless you want to break the clock, some town hall / church clocks have to go forward 11 hours, stopping on each hour for the chiming mechanism to function and unwind.

some public clocks have a function where they stop for an hour when the clocks go forwards or stop for 11 hours when they go back

you learn some pretty trivial stuff working for a brough council (it was a YTS course which shows my age)


I think this is why Big Ben (or St Stephen's Tower or The Great Clock) is always stopped at 12:00 on a time change, regardless of whether it is to GMT or BST.

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