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  • #72259
    spimps
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    Found it a bit hard going this week,is it from changing the clocks? anyone else had that drained feeling this week,then again it might be my age 😕 .
    Wonder if it will change should Scotland go independent,could be on different times which would be interesting for those working the borders if there is a time difference.

    #383964
    eastlmark
    Moderator

    Re: Clocks & Time Change

    just wish I could fathom out how to change the time on my vans new fangled built in sat nav/ radio/hd tv screen thingmyjig.

    #383965
    kwatt
    Keymaster

    Re: Clocks & Time Change

    What day is it?

    K.

    #383966
    Dales-Electronic
    Moderator

    Re: Clocks & Time Change

    Sounds like our old Ken is back and firing on all cylinders :eeek:

    #383967
    funkyboogy
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    Re: Clocks & Time Change

    where did time come from anyway , is it an illusion us humans have fallen for ,

    #383968
    Alex
    Participant

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    funkyboogy wrote:where did time come from anyway , is it an illusion us humans have fallen for ,

    Spot on!

    I fail to see the point in altering the clocks. Wife comes from a Farming family and one day over the kitchen table I tried to get this across.

    Was met with a farming answer.

    “Well if they don’t change the clocks, means I have to feed my bullocks in the dark in the morning as well as the morning milking being done in darkness”.

    So I suggested “Feed them an hour later”

    “Oh no you cannot do that, as they are used to having their feed at the same time every day, same with milking the dairy herd”

    “But you ARE feeding them an hour later, as soon as you change the clock”.

    “No we are not, we feed them every day at 8-am winter or Summer”

    “So you feed them at 8-am in the summer, than after moving YOUR clock on the kitchen wall, you still feed them at 8-o-clock according to your kitchen clock, but according to their body clock, YOU are an hour late.

    “No I’m not, I still feed them at 8-am”

    “Any way, you don’t like milking cows in the dark in the mornings, what time do you milk them in the afternoons?”

    “Afternoon milking is around 5-pm”

    So I had to ask… “Before they alter the clocks, is it dark?”

    “No”

    “So after you put the clock back, it is dark in the afternoon milking instead of the morning?”

    “Yes, but give it a couple of weeks, and it is dark in the Morning as well”

    So what is the bloody point! Leave the clocks alone.

    OK In Scotland will be dark until 10 am. but surely they could carry out vial daylight tasks an hour later, or would they have the same argument as the conversation above? No doubt I will get a qualified answer.

    Needless to say, I gave up the argument.

    Alex

    #383969
    iadom
    Moderator

    Re: Clocks & Time Change

    And if you don’t go into your user control panel and make sure your forum clock is set to UTC-1. Azores standard time, your posts will appear one hour later than you made them. 😉

    #383970
    spimps
    Participant

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    My wife was gazing out the window on Sunday morning watching the birds in the field and said “I wonder how changing the clocks affects them”? 😯 😀
    And before you ask she isn’t blonde,sweet lady but can keep me in order when req’d as she has done over the last 43 years!

    #383971
    Martin
    Participant

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    iadom wrote:And if you don’t go into your user control panel and make sure your forum clock is set to UTC-1. Azores standard time, your posts will appear one hour later than you made them. 😉

    Well I never…… 😕

    I set mine to GMT on Sunday so will now check what time this post says it was made…….I’m hitting the time travel key…..NOW!…….. :eeek:

    #383972
    funkyboogy
    Participant

    Re: Clocks & Time Change

    lots of countries avoid changing now to save on power re street lighting etc ..

    but i was thinking more of .. what came 1st

    the big bang or time ? did the big bang make time or was it there before the big bang ….mmmmm

    ps thats if you believe in tbbt..

    #383973
    Martin
    Participant

    Re: Clocks & Time Change

    Question for Jim:-

    The USA have turned their clocks back 1 hour today ( they do it a week after us because of Halloween weekend by the way. 😉 ) should we twiddle with our clocks now in order to keep up?

    #383974
    iadom
    Moderator

    Re: Clocks & Time Change

    No idea, what does puzzle me is that I have the button to auto select DST set in my user control panel preferences but have always had to change the time setting manually when the time alters???


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    #383975
    stratfordgirl
    Participant

    Re: Clocks & Time Change

    I think it’s a manual summer time switch, not auto. Switch it on in summer and off in winter.

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