UK users clocks go back an hour

AddRAM · Oct 27, 2021

Even if you put new ones a week earlier because it started beeping :what:

LOL

larc919 · Oct 27, 2021

Don't know why, but I seem to function better on DST. When we go on it in spring, it takes no getting used to. But I'm out of sorts for a week or more when we go off it in fall.

Winuser · Oct 27, 2021

AddRAM said:
Even if you put new ones a week earlier because it started beeping LOL

Never had the batteries die before I changed them. If it starts beeping for no reason it's going on a one-way trip to recycle land.

RogerOver · Oct 27, 2021

Bree said:
Have you set the correct timezone in your profile's preferences?

https://www.elevenforum.com/account/preferences

View attachment 11524

Thank you very much Bree, everything is fine now !

I had effectively tried to change (and changed) the settings in "Your account", but apparently not saved them (at the end of the page).

The-Hive · Oct 28, 2021

AddRAM said:
That`s what I said :)
In fact that is the very reason a Harvest moon is called a Harvest moon.

Is that so they can do harvesting at night :lmao:

Sorry thats my sense of humour

jimbo45 · Oct 28, 2021

Hi folks
usually NNT servers can adjust / sync the time automatically for your region. UTC also is not identical to GMT - it's in use by the military planet wide and has no daylight saving or whatever. I think Windows has an option to automatically set the time for your region from the internet.

On a different note -- slightly OT but relevant to the UK's recent endless trumpeting about "Green and Climate Change" -- I'd have thought that a lot of energy / carbon emission etc would be saved if they kept BST all year round --in WWII I believe they even had "double summer time" for most of the duration of the war - so the savings obviously not trivial.

In places where daylight doesn't vary much over the year like I suppose Arizona then it won't make much difference.

@AddRAM -- it's done so the Cows at milking time can continue to watch their favourite TV programs !!.

Scotland and England could have different time zones -- doesn't cause a problem for example with Portugal and Spain being in different time zones so a common Land border is not an obstacle. Savings in London and Manchester would be quite large whereas in Scotland it wouldn't make much difference I agree.

Cheers
jimbo

The-Hive · Oct 28, 2021

larc919 said:
Don't know why, but I seem to function better on DST. When we go on it in spring, it takes no getting used to. But I'm out of sorts for a week or more when we go off it in fall.

@larc919 Me too, The fall or Autumn as we call it in the UK makes me feel so tired for a few weeks and after all it's only 1 hour

clam1952 · Oct 28, 2021

Going back 1 hour doesn't affect me, going forward messes up my sleep pattern for a month or so. Whatever I wish they would just leave it on one or the other.

Edwin · Mar 12, 2022

For those affected, don't forget, you lose an hour of sleep tonight!

ShamrockRig · Mar 12, 2022

Edwin said:
For those affected, don't forget, you lose an hour of sleep tonight!

27th of march for us in the uk

AddRAM · Mar 12, 2022

Na you just sleep 4 hours later tomorrow.
Or just go to bed an hour earlier tonight

Our clocks change tonight.

Ghot · Mar 12, 2022

The whole world should be on Starfleet time.

No wonder we don't have faster than light travel. This time change messes up the physicists, twice a year.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot... changing the clocks twice a year is..., stooooopid. ^^

Everyone was worried about Y2K. These time changes, twice a year, mess up more computers than Y2K ever did. LOL

barman58 · Mar 13, 2022

I have no issues with the change at all ... all of my electronics these days change time themselves when needed. I have a couple of older or non smart items that
I'll manually change when i feel like it some items I'll not use between changes so i ignore them.

As for loosing sleep, i don't worry i wake and sleep if and when i feel i need it. I do set alarms for appointments but usually find i am awake long before the alarm.
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z3r010 · Mar 13, 2022

Pffft, I've just realised it's US DST fortnight when all my server jobs run an hour out until we change at the end of the month :crys:

A Guy · Mar 13, 2022

If you have a Tesla Powerwall, do you already have daylight savings time?

A Guy

cereberus · Mar 13, 2022

The-Hive said:
@ThrashZone I believe we have been doing since WW2 to gain and hours daylight for working on the land. They have been talking about abolishing it for years but nothing has changed. I guess you are in the US and have many different time zones

Since WW1

cereberus · Mar 13, 2022

The-Hive said:
Best to check in Settings>Time & Language that your adjust for daylight saving time automatically is turned on as we move fro BST to GMT at the weekend. My friends was turned off.

Huh - they go back at 2AM on last Sunday of Month, so 27th. Ages away yet.

cereberus · Mar 13, 2022

Devlin1888 said:
27th of march for us in the uk

Technically 2am Sunday 28th

Devlin1888 said:
27th of march for us in the uk

correct

K7MEM · Mar 13, 2022

AddRAM said:
The entire world uses it where they need to, Arizona doesn`t use DST at all, maybe a small chunk of it in the upper left corner. You`d have to research that.

Yes, I lived in Arizona for over 40 years and never had to change my clocks. It never bothered anyone in Arizona businesses. It was everyone else that had to adjust to the fact that we did not adjust. I think it's a waste of effort.

Oh, it is a small chuck in the upper "right" corner of Arizona, the Indian reservation. The Indians say that "it's like cutting off the top of a blanket and then sewing it back on the bottom". It doesn't really change anything.

Fabler2 · Mar 13, 2022

I remember this,

'Older readers may remember the three-year experiment launched in 1968, when British Standard Time (GMT+1) was employed all year round.
The clocks were put forward as usual in March 1968 and not put back until October 1971.'