Poll: Clocks go forward this weekend (27th) (stupid, stupid, dumb BST)

Which time zone do you prefer?

  • GMT

    Votes: 74 31.8%

  • BST

    Votes: 111 47.6%

  • Who cares, time is a human construct.

    Votes: 48 20.6%
  • Total voters
    233
azazl187 said:
It makes no difference when you have young kids. You are knackered all the time anyway and also don't have the energy to do things in the evenings
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Babies, completely agree. Once they start sleeping well I found it to be less of an issue. Though you're right, I'm a lot busier now than I have ever been (packed lunches, tidying the house, ironing uniforms, dinner, going to the gym /run /swim, kids clubs (swimming, taekwondo etc).

Weekends don't exist anymore either! :cry:
 
Freefaller said:
Babies, completely agree. Once they start sleeping well I found it to be less of an issue. Though you're right, I'm a lot busier now than I have ever been (packed lunches, tidying the house, ironing uniforms, dinner, going to the gym /run /swim, kids clubs (swimming, taekwondo etc).

Weekends don't exist anymore either! :cry:
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All that and you also have to fit in 45 hours a week of work! Not to mention trying to find quality time for the wife. Relentless is the word I would use
 
azazl187 said:
All that and you also have to fit in 45 hours a week of work! Not to mention trying to find quality time for the wife. Relentless is the word I would use
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It's actually not too bad once they're older, however yes when you're doing 12hr days (I used to leave for work at 545am) coming home to babies is never easy especially as you want to give your wife a break! Then finding time for the gym / sport, meant dinner was often late and bed was late! I don't miss those days! :D

That said, this topic of time is quite interesting, and although slightly on a tangent to GMT/BST, it's about managing your day, and making time for things, prioritising, and also accepting you can't do everything. I've learned to make time for myself, and to spend with my wife. However, my life revolves around my children (why wouldn't it?), I capitalise on my time (or work) when they're at school, and maximise my time with them after school/the weekend. We don't watch much tv neither do we go to pubs etc... most of our friends come round to visit (we're fortunate to have space living in the countryside), or we go to a park/castle/farm so we still get time with friends, you just have to adapt.


Back on topic, later evenings make no odds to us, early mornings suit us better. However, if UTC or UTC+1 were adopted full time I'd have no complaints.
 
BST. I’ll take light evenings allll day long. It’s like I’ve got hours to achieve stuff when little one is asleep.

Plus, usually a sign of warmer days so that’s a bonus.
 
Feek said:
(thread title made more accurate :D)

Stupid, stupid BST.

We'll say goodbye to GMT for the summer, we'll be back to idiots quoting GMT when they don't understand the difference, we'll be back to confusion and madness.

We invented time, we invented Greenwich, we invented longitude and we invented clocks*. It's only right that we should be on proper GMT all year round.

BST, you can do one. You're not wanted here.

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*some of this may not be entirely factual
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I wish all timezones die ... it is the most annoying thing in the whole world to have to always keen on working out what's the time in different regions of the world!
My job requires me to talk to people all the way from Sydney to San Francisco, and having to constantly work out what time is it somewhere is just annoying :(
 
rypt said:
I wish all timezones die ... it is the most annoying thing in the whole world to have to always keen on working out what's the time in different regions of the world!
My job requires me to talk to people all the way from Sydney to San Francisco, and having to constantly work out what time is it somewhere is just annoying :(
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Hopefully you're not actually working it out.
 
I don't get the hate towards time change. Yeah it might be a little bit inconvenient for a day or two but otherwise it has no effect majority people. Saying that, I'm all for changing time by 30min as a compromise and then keeping it like that going forward.
 
rypt said:
I wish all timezones die ... it is the most annoying thing in the whole world to have to always keen on working out what's the time in different regions of the world!
My job requires me to talk to people all the way from Sydney to San Francisco, and having to constantly work out what time is it somewhere is just annoying :(
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You think that's annoying. I worked on a system to handle trade financing contracts...it all revolves around very precise timing of paperwork attached to shipments moving around the world, down to the second.

Not only are all the agreements moving around the world through different time zones, a lot of it is based on 'working hours', so you have to take bank holidays in every country on the planet into account, the fact the shipments are moving across timezones that are themselves shifting due to daylight saving changes, at different dates in different countries....

Don't even get me started on leap seconds....it's giving me PTSD thinking back to it.
 
mid_gen said:
You think that's annoying. I worked on a system to handle trade financing contracts...it all revolves around very precise timing of paperwork attached to shipments moving around the world, down to the second.

Not only are all the agreements moving around the world through different time zones, a lot of it is based on 'working hours', so you have to take bank holidays in every country on the planet into account, the fact the shipments are moving across timezones that are themselves shifting due to daylight saving changes, at different dates in different countries....

Don't even get me started on leap seconds....it's giving me PTSD thinking back to it.
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I feel your pain! I don't have to go down to leap seconds, but we have to cater in our systems (that I work on) for "local user time" (in one of 15 locations" vs "market standard" (which is sometimes in EST, and sometimes in NZST) vs "UTC"

Let's not forget that Australia start work while US are still in the office, but they are "next day" date in Australia!
 
The big issue is the huge swing in daylight hours we have between winter and summer in the UK... For the south coast that's ~8 hours through to ~16.5 hours.

I'm much more of an afternoon person that a morning person, especially outside of work, so having the option of a later outdoor bike ride in light suits me much better. I'm also very sensitive to light when sleeping and sunrise at ~0450 BST mid summer is bad enough.
 
savagesam117 said:
BST. I’ll take light evenings allll day long. It’s like I’ve got hours to achieve stuff when little one is asleep.

Plus, usually a sign of warmer days so that’s a bonus.
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Soon it'll be the "OMG too hot outside" and gimme rain threads.

UTmaniac said:
The big issue is the huge swing in daylight hours we have between winter and summer in the UK... For the south coast that's ~8 hours through to ~16.5 hours.

I'm much more of an afternoon person that a morning person, especially outside of work, so having the option of a later outdoor bike ride in light suits me much better. I'm also very sensitive to light when sleeping and sunrise at ~0450 BST mid summer is bad enough.
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In Scotland it's mostly fully bright by 3am - 3:30am June/July. If it has been a solid clear blue sky the day before.
 
Dislike long days and very early light. I like autumn and winter, others like summer. Though summer in cities isn’t all that pleasant!

However we get seasons, unlike some places so guess that makes it worth it.
 
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