Clocks go back an hour tonight. ⏰

I've been awake since 5.30 but had had my 8 hours sleep so a long day if I stick to my usual bedtime.
A friend who has had a new smart phone was pleased it preferred to turn itself back.

Allira

Well, I wouldn't have known either!

Now, just remembered, must check the time difference with Australia!

The time difference where DD is in Oz is 11 hours ahead of us.

I usually try and speak to her at 5pm their time, as that fits in with her preparing their evening meal, but think it will have to move to 6pm, her time, as 6am every week is a bit too early for me.

I forgot they were changing.

I woke this morning and checked my watch and thought I was getting up at the usual time. A little later I looked at the bedside clock and it said it was an hour later, and I was really confused - my brain was chugging away trying to work out how it had taken me an hour to clean my teeth. It was only when I checked my watch again it dawned on me that I had overslept and my watch had automatically changed. Duh.

Sorry if I've not read every message properly but can someone please tell me WHY we change the clocks . My guess is for the working people and school children leaving home early to get to work/school . Yet my memory seems to think its something to do with the farmers/ or wartime Britain .

I hate it and it takes about a fortnight to get used to.
I get up when I wake, so that’s now 4ish. The cats, dog and I want all our meals an hour before the damned clock says we can. Long before the clock says bedtime I’ve crawled wearily upstairs at the time I went when I was at primary school.

Toetoe

Sorry if I've not read every message properly but can someone please tell me WHY we change the clocks . My guess is for the working people and school children leaving home early to get to work/school . Yet my memory seems to think its something to do with the farmers/ or wartime Britain .

It was started in the war, to give more hours of daylight to get the work done, to make the country more productive.