Putting the clocks back

And my car clock will be an hour fast for the winter!

I have to get the oven instructions yet again and work out how to re-set the clock, not to mention the microwave, but I did the car clock today. I've had it longer than the ovens!
Alie, look after yourself.

My car clock is too much hassle to put back....it's very stiff to move the knob one way, and each year I think i will bring a pair of pliers to do it, and each year I can't be bothered! So each winter I know it is one hour fast....

I have not quite fathomed the timer on my central heating. In BST it comes on at 8am, in GMT at 7am because I have lost the instruction book!

I've never had a book for mine - I just turn it on manually!

Never forget years ago being in a blind panic doing the school pick up because I couldn't work out if I was an hour late. By the time I get round to changing my clocks [other than the alarm clocks, of which there are many] it's usually time to change them again.

..and just had another panic thinking it was time for the Rich Hall programme on BBC4, but it's not 9 o'clock yet, is it [pooter says no...]?

it has always been presented as something "for the farmers".
I don't understand!

Here in Queensland Australia we stay on the same time all year. When daylight saving, as they call it here, is suggested, the rural people go wild with anger and say it upsets the cows and fades the curtains! So we never get long summer evenings and I really really miss them.

We don't get much of a twilight anyway - it is light, then a few minutes later it is dark, or so it seems. Same with the seasons - it is winter or summer - not much in between.

I remember the year we lived in Aberdeen and I was up at night, in the summer, with my youngest baby. It wasn't the midnight sun, but we were far enough north so that I could make tea at 1.30am without putting on the lights!

I've given up trying to change the time on the ovens - too complicated by far (thanks Ikea). The microwave clock just doesn't want to be changed and is always set at some ridiculous time however hard I try to change it; My mobile is set to automatic time change but doesn't - unless I am in Oz when it does. which is very irritating and I took a clock off the wall to change it and now can't get it back up again - I give up

My car clock says October 2000

Oh dear – I think we re conforming to stereotypes.

I can't bear to let anything beat me, so all my clocks are changed, however, my house phone has a mind of it's own and changes whenever it feels the need!

I was so pleased when I manged to change the time on my telephone handset. Then went to change the bedroom one (we have four in different rooms + one in cellar workshop - they also double as intercoms, very handy with someone ill) and was even more pleased to find that they had all updated to match the first.

It is not easy is it with some electronic devices picking up the time from the airwaves and others not. And so many things have timers these days.
You are much nearer the equator joan so you don't get anything like the variation between winter and summer do you?
Stereotypes absent - probably when we were younger we all messed up at least once and turned up for work/school an hour early or an hour late?

JessM I meant the stereotype of the little woman who can't manage anything mechanical or electronic.

I didn't JessM! [smug emoticon]

Wot, never ever got to Monday and said "Oh s* the clocks have changed" ?
I'm sure I must have, but can't remember the specific circumstances

I can't change the time on my mobile either, it says it is automatic. If I change it myself it clicks back, bah, I give up.

No, really, JessM. I always went round changing the clocks last thing on the Saturday night. Obsessive? Probably!

I'm not a fan of the clocks going back. Yes, ok you sort of get an extra hour in bed, but I hate it getting dark so early.

For the last couple of years I have had a bit of a problem with driving in the dark, at my last job my boos allowed us to be flexible, so in the darker months I would work from 8am to 4pm. I do worry about the driving in the dark bit when I do start working again.

I am permanently on watch for different time zones, so I don't ring my sister and grand-daughter in England or my daughter in NZ at inconvenient times. My laptop is on UK time which I use to make sure I don't miss TV or radio programmes. I still google 'Time now in NZ' though, as they do have summer time but not at the same time as in Europe.
I keep my mobile phone switched off to save having to recharge so often, and the time seems to stand still! My car clock is correct for six months of the year because I can't be bothered fiddling about to change it.

Greatnan I have two separate little icons on my computer home screen with clocks - one showing the time in Canada and one for Australia. It's always there in the background so I know what time it is for the family in various parts of the world!

I like that idea, yogagran - can you tell me how you got them?