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Clocks go forward as "Full time" called at Rugby

(March 2007)

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JV
James Vertigan Founding member
miss hellfire posted:
This means we lose an hours sleep doesn't it.. Sad

Depends what time you can be bothered to get up!
RM
Roger Mellie
miss hellfire posted:
This means we lose an hours sleep doesn't it.. Sad


Not if you go to bed an hour earlier Very Happy
JO
Johnny83
miss hellfire posted:
This means we lose an hours sleep doesn't it.. Sad


But at least it will be light when leaving work rather than the dark in the morning, dark in the evening winter
RM
Roger Mellie
Johnny83 posted:
miss hellfire posted:
This means we lose an hours sleep doesn't it.. Sad


But at least it will be light when leaving work rather than the dark in the morning, dark in the evening winter


I know we flogged this debate to death in October... but as I pointed out then, nobody complains (in England & Wales at least) about losing an hour in the morning when the clocks go foward in March. People always moan when they go back in October about losing light in the evening!

That's why I believe for England and Wales the clocks should remain the same all year round (i.e don't shift them back in October). Even in the winter then you would only have one rush-hour in the dark, whereas you have two in the current set-up!

I feel an extra hour in the evening during autumn/winter is more beneficial in the evening than the morning. Kids coming home from school would would have at least an hour to play outside for instance.

Apologies for the rant Embarassed
CR
Crispin
Why do so many people (particularly those on tv) say that you lose an hours sleep when the clocks go forward. It doesn't have to be that way...just get up 1 hour later than usual. I'm sure not many people have anything important to do on a Sunday. Those that work on Sundays can just go to bet an hour earlier.
SO
Steven O
Crispin posted:
Those that work on Sundays can just go to bet an hour earlier.


Depends if you can find a bookie open at that time of night... Laughing
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Hah... Nice announcement into Breakfast from Duncan... "Welcome to BBC One where it's just approaching 6 o'clock, not 5. So I'm going to adjust all the clocks in the office during Breakfast"....

Surely they're all controlled by the time signal so he shouldn't need to? Razz Laughing
IS
Inspector Sands
James Vertigan posted:

Oh? Well there was the time (think it was either March this year or October last year) when they had their usual reminder that the clocks had changed - and yet theirs hadn't!


Who?
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
James Vertigan posted:

Oh? Well there was the time (think it was either March this year or October last year) when they had their usual reminder that the clocks had changed - and yet theirs hadn't!


Who?


Teletext on ITV/C4/Five.
:-(
A former member
I believe the clocks should be kept at GMT all year round
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Crispin posted:
Why do so many people (particularly those on tv) say that you lose an hours sleep when the clocks go forward. It doesn't have to be that way...just get up 1 hour later than usual.


Nobody is losing anything.
All we're doing is taking an hour out for six months, then we put it back again last Sunday in October. We're not gaining or losing a thing.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
James Vertigan posted:
Hah... Nice announcement into Breakfast from Duncan... "Welcome to BBC One where it's just approaching 6 o'clock, not 5. So I'm going to adjust all the clocks in the office during Breakfast"....

Surely they're all controlled by the time signal so he shouldn't need to? Razz Laughing


I bet Duncan would have been in his element doing a "don't forget to put your clocks forward" closedown, complete with the BBC1 clock moving forward an hour.

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