Putting the clocks back

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

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!

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.

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

..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...]?

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.

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

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!

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 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.

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

oh gosh are you up in Scotland then?/ must admit was very cold trying set the pansies, mad or what.

I am cold and miserable and tired! And I have to get up early tomorrow to take my neighbour to the hospital in Oxford.
Boooo.

It snowed – lightly – where I live on Friday night. Bit early in the year, I reckon.

I am miserable and cold!

agree is not best time of year!!

however we away for fun time next weekend and still on high from India so life can be good, just do not think any of us relish the thought of cold dark winter nights!!

still fire on, heating on, nice hot casseroles on cold days, and after my hot bath (been in garden!) am cooking roast chicken!!
let it snow let it snow, well not yet maybe!!

Nfk Tonight is another "red wine supper" so I have already opened a bottle to breathe. Cheers.

Ok, not quite dark. But 'orrible and cold and miserable. Wherever the sun is it must be over the yard arm, I think there's a bottle in the fridge calling me!

Nfk It isn't actually dark yet – but I agree it's on its way.

There are only so many hours of daylight (and dark for that matter) at any time of year, so I just go with the flow.

'Puter says it's 16.36 and it's bloomin well dark. Feels like 17.36 to me.

I'm glad my pooter knows what the proper time is. I'm hopless at knowing if the time should go backwards or forwards or if I've gained or lost time; time no longer springs to mind.

I'm with you there jeni stay on patrol!

Granny23 that's priceless

I put all the clocks and timers back last night, well, this morning really, at 02.00 to 01.00. Went to bed and DH, first up, changed all the clocks at 08.00, but put some forward by mistake.

Does this sound like one of these problems we used to get in arithmatic?

Now that he has nodded off watching the really exciting Grand Prix, I shall creep about putting them all to rights. Thank goodness for the computer which I assume is showing the correct time, as I have no idea which clocks are right.