27-10-2019, 11:23 AM
Did you remember?
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27-10-2019, 12:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 27-10-2019, 12:40 PM by peter scott.)
Adjusting the stones at Stonehenge..
The clock in my vehicle was self correcting, yesterday it was an hour slow but today it's spot on....
Lawrence.
27-10-2019, 07:18 PM
It always amazes me how we get an extra hour in bed but in practice it never happens - just go to bed an hour later LOL. Nearly last night though as I cut the hour in half
Tracy
27-10-2019, 11:03 PM
Our neighbour told me that he used to work nights at weekends in a chocolate factory in Fakenham. He says it was a long wait to be paid for the extra hour as the time clock was an auto adjusted type, people just put up with it as they could earn in two shifts what days earned in
five, guess he meant having to wait till spring....
28-10-2019, 08:22 AM
Many years ago, back in the early 60s, I used to work alternate night and day shifts in a factory. The night shifts paid better than day work so some opted for permanent nights, but i don't recall what happened when we went back to GMT in late October. As the night shift was between 8PM &7AM Monday to Thursday, and the clocks, then as now, IIRC, were altered at 2AM on the Sunday concerned, I doubt that any of us noticed the difference come Monday evening.
28-10-2019, 10:30 AM
(28-10-2019, 08:22 AM)Old Sparky Wrote: Many years ago, back in the early 60s, ... the clocks, then as now, IIRC, were altered at 2AM on the Sunday concerned. [panto mode] Oh no they didn't! [/panto mode] Back in the 60s, the time change occurred at 0200 GMT, so the clocks went forward from 2am GMT to 3am BST and back again from 3am BST to 2am GMT. Then, around 1980, Europe decided to adopt Daylight Saving Time, which they decided to do at 0200 CET! However, and much more confusing, was that we used some obscure arcane formula - probably based on phases of the moon - to determine on which two Sundays the changes occurred. Europe adopted a much more sensible approach and used the last Sunday in March and October. Eventually, common sense prevailed and we decided (or, perhaps, the EU decided for us) to come into line with the rest of Europe. But this also means that the time change now occurs at 0200 CET which is 0100 GMT, we we now go forward from 1am to 2am and back from 2am to 1am. Our central heating programmer changed seamlessly yesterday morning as so many other devices do. There must be large numbers of programmers out there who would be terrified if they realised how complex such a simple change would have been in years gone by.
28-10-2019, 10:35 AM
HIGH SPEED TERRY?
I was astounded to notice that our return journey from Hucknall to North Hykeham yesterday afternoon was estimated to take TWO minutes. Guess who'd forgotten to put the car's clock back! |
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