Clocks BACK This weekend

movingtables · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:11

Happy Winter folks:

30 Oct 2016 - Daylight Saving Time Ends

Sunday, 30 October 2016, 02:00:00 clocks are turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, 30 October 2016, 01:00:00 local standard time instead.

Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on 30 Oct 2016 than the day before.
There will be more light in the morning.

MoBo · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:12

It seems later this year, usually the clocks go back before half term.

[TW]Fox · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:12

When did Autumn get renamed to Fall?

MoBo said:
It seems later this year, usually the clocks go back before half term.

Last weekend of October doesn't get any earlier or later :confused:

Nevakonaza · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:13

Dont know why they still do this crap,Keep it as it is,it makes no difference!

Pawnless Endgame · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:17

MoBo said:
It seems later this year, usually the clocks go back before half term.

Nah. It's always been in the 2nd weekend of half term, so around Hallowe'en.

Anyway, just click on the clock on any recent version of MS Windows and you start getting reminders 1 week prior.

Mynight · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:36

Yay winter time!

Feek · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:40

Lovely, back to real time again. Hate BST with a passion.

cainer · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:42

[TW]Fox;30145212 said:
Last weekend of October doesn't get any earlier or later

date wise it does

Semple · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:47

Pawnless Endgame said:
Anyway, just click on the clock on any recent version of MS Windows and you start getting reminders 1 week prior.

Ah yeah, never noticed that before.

Diddums · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:48

Bloody BMS at work thought it was last night, so we spent all morning trying to figure out why the fan coil units hadn't turned on at 7am like they always do. Stupid technology

Dave M · 26 Oct 2016 at 08:49

[TW]Fox;30145212 said:
When did Autumn get renamed to Fall?

Because you didn't think up a Mnemonic using 'Autumn' yet.

joeyjojo · 26 Oct 2016 at 09:07

[TW]Fox;30145212 said:
When did Autumn get renamed to Fall?

I used to be like you and always call out US usage, but since then I've noticed that most 'American' words are just old-fashioned UK ones.

Take fall for example, according to the OED it comes from 'fall of the leaf', here are a couple of British uses:

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus (London: E. Whytchurch) I. f. 15, Spring tyme, Somer, faule of the leafe, and winter.
1714 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857, Oxford) VI. 726 In the spring and fall he was alwaies disturbed.

In the 18th century it seems to have become common in American English as just 'fall', but it started in British English centuries before.

I prefer Autumn however.

beachBOYken · 26 Oct 2016 at 09:17

Great, I hate these dark mornings.

Jamesyboyjim · 26 Oct 2016 at 09:18

Going home in the dark. Boooo

Extra hour in bed this weekend. Yaaay!

d_brennen · 26 Oct 2016 at 09:31

Jamesyboyjim said:
Going home in the dark. Boooo Extra hour in bed this weekend. Yaaay!

No young kids, eh? They don't care

tom_e · 26 Oct 2016 at 09:34

Just another sign that it's nearly time for the weather to ruin my enjoyment of riding until the spring.

UTmaniac · 26 Oct 2016 at 09:48

I'm going to controversially turn the clocks back at bedtime on Saturday, currently ~2030 BST.

Smit · 26 Oct 2016 at 10:31

d_brennen said:
No young kids, eh? They don't care

Indeed, a real pain for a couple of days trying to get them back in their routine and not waking up so early.

dirtychinchilla · 26 Oct 2016 at 10:38

Hey it's not my fault your censoring machine didn't recognise my word!!

Sucks, anyway.

Cosimo · 26 Oct 2016 at 11:10

Time to go into hibernation...