Daylight Saving

[Grommit]

I don.t know about everyone else but I find changing the clocks twice a year a bit of a chore. It's only when changing the time that I realise how many time pieces I have bought, received as presents, inherited, found and are attached to things like central heating boilers, motorcar dashboards and cookers.

It doesn't take long to alter the watch and the kitchen clock. Maybe a couple of minutes at the most. The real problems start with the inherited Grandmother clock where the pendulum has to stopped, the whole casing lifted off the wall, grope for the knob to turn the hands round and then put the whole lot back again. Unfortunately if it .000001 of a degree from absolutely straight when it is replaced, the pendulum stops working.

You would also think that the electric clocks on boilers, car dashboards and cookers would also only take a minute. In fact they do only take a minute to change after I have spent 2 hours looking for the instruction books to tell me which buttons to press and hold for how long and which button changes the minutes after the hour has been set.

I have been known in the past to leave them all as they are and I don't have a problem with that. After all, in a few months time they will right again but other people rely on them. Don't put the hour forward in summer and visitors think they have another hour before the bus comes or an hour before the Chemist shuts.

I propose we should all revert to the Middle Ages, up with sun and down in the dark.
I am not the only one that thinks that way. Consider the story of the Land Agent in America in the late 19th Century.

He was sent to parley with the Chief of a tribe of Indians and the meeting was set for 10am. An hour later the Chief emerged from his tepee and could not understand why the Land Agent was annoyed. The Land Agent explained the Daylight Saving hour and how you took an hour off the start of the day and added it to the end of the day.

Throughout the explanation the Chief sat impassively, waited for a short time and then said, " Only a white man could think of cutting 1 inch off the top of his blanket and sewing it on the bottom of his blanket to keep him warmer."

[wendy]

I wish the clocks did not change at all.

[annie]

I fully agree Derek, I would rather they didn't change & I laughed about the oven clocks etc, I always have the same problem , every time!!!!!!!!

[maureenho]

We don't have that many clocks to change but it is easier to put on one hour than going back one especially on heating timer, at least computers, mobile phones, DAB radios change automatically which is a plus.

epspa

[Rosalind]

I wish we did not have to change the clocks and I also find my biggest problem is the oven clock, as I have to always read the instructions to change the time on it do877 .