Stupid clocks go stupid forward this weekend.

[Freefaller]

I'm going to miss the light in the mornings for a few months until the sun catches up again.

 

[Dis86]

I'm going to miss the light in the mornings for a few months until the sun catches up again.

22nd of April should do it.

 

[Freefaller]

22nd of April should do it.

So soon? Cool in which case I won't moan. As long as I have light mornings then I can't complain.

 

[Uther]

So soon? Cool in which case I won't moan. As long as I have light mornings then I can't complain.

Just stay in bed an hour later, works for me!
(retirement ftw )

 

[Freefaller]

Just stay in bed an hour later, works for me!
(retirement ftw )

I'm an early bird. I'm barely ever in bed later than 630am!

 

[Uther]

I'm an early bird. I'm barely ever in bed later than 630am!

I used to get up at 3am for work at 4. 6.30 would have been a very long lie in!

 

[Sinbad2000]

So on Sunday when I wake up at 5am [STUPID BODY CLOCK] is it going to be 4am or 6am?

6am.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

In Summer, New Zealand time uses 'Daylight Saving', with clocks put forward one hour to GMT+13. Daylight Saving begins on the last Sunday in September and ends on the first Sunday of the following April, when clocks are put back to GMT+12.

April 6th - dark by 6pm :/

 

[happy_2008]

Hopefully an extra hours sleep this weekend providing the daughter doesn't wake us up

 

[Sinbad2000]

Hopefully an extra hours sleep this weekend providing the daughter doesn't wake us up

How do you figure that?

 

[whitecrook]

Hopefully an extra hours sleep this weekend providing the daughter doesn't wake us up

Are you getting up 2 hrs later?

 

[Jonny69]

Are you getting up 2 hrs later?

I thought they said it would be Monday when I finally wake up

 

[happy_2008]

How do you figure that?

Whoops, i thought clocks go back not forward haha

 

[Grim5]

In Summer, New Zealand time uses 'Daylight Saving', with clocks put forward one hour to GMT+13. Daylight Saving begins on the last Sunday in September and ends on the first Sunday of the following April, when clocks are put back to GMT+12.

April 6th - dark by 6pm :/

Winter sucks - go to work while it's pitch black, came home while it's pitch black

 

[Mr Jack]

As a society, we decided we don't like mornings though, so set up all our typical time based structures biased towards the afternoon - 9-5 working, shops opening etc.

If I recall correctly, the 9am start was a result of a four six-hour shift pattern from which we retained the start time, but not the end, of the central shift. There was never any rational reason for the offset, it's just a historical quirk.

 

[moon man]

Winter sucks - go to work while it's pitch black, came home while it's pitch black

Yep this is the worst,seeing the garden Sunday then not again (in daylight) until Fri lunchtime

 

[MookJong]

Yep this is the worst,seeing the garden Sunday then not again (in daylight) until Fri lunchtime

My parents are retired and look after our dog on a Tuesday and a Friday. One Friday a couple of months ago my Mum asked me if I'd noticed they had tided up some leaves in the corner of the front drive on the Tuesday. I thanked her but said I hadn't because the last time I saw the house in the light was Sunday.

She was kind of shocked when I put it like that and it just fuels my ambition to retire early so I can be outside in the light more than 2 days a week in the winter.

 

[roddypoddy]

Winter sucks - go to work while it's pitch black, came home while it's pitch black

Must admit that being retired i really don't miss those day's, urgh.

 

[tom_e]

I do like having the ability to use flexi time for my working hours, means even in the deepest winter time I still finish at 1/2 oclock a few days a week so see some daylight

 

[Kelt]

Must admit that being retired i really don't miss those day's, urgh.

Hah!

Same here!

Love being able to get out on my bike when it's sunny!

Used to absolutely hate it having to get up in the dark to go to work, and not coming home until it was dark again.