In my opinion, we really need to put a stop to this nonsense of turning time back and forth twice a year. I think the EU actually did make some sort of decision about it a couple of years ago. But they (or I suppose I should say "we") still didn't manage to get countries to decide whether to stop the clock on 'winter' time or 'summer' time. And at least here in Sweden, so far, we're still carrying on as usual. Which means that this weekend, it was That Time of Year again.
So yesterday evening, I decided to change my clocks before going to bed, so that they would all show the right time when I woke up today. In spite of all the WiFi clocks on various modern devices nowadays changing themselves, I still have quite a few clocks that need to be set manually - because at home, I don't like wearing my wrist watch, but prefer to have at least one wall or table clock in each room that will quickly tell me what time of day (or night) it is.
So I made my clock-turning tour last night, and put all the clocks forward one hour. But when I'd finished that job, somehow something did not feel quite right about it...
Oops!
I realized my mistake, which meant I had to make another round, putting all the clocks back - and this time two hours...
After I'd done that, I thought to myself that tomorrow (i.e. today) I'd probably still discover at least one that I forgot about, or got it wrong with. (That nearly always happens.)
And of course I was right! 😂 (Do you spot it? I didn't notice until I decided to take my camera with me on a check-up round this afternoon...)
(The image at the top of the post is borrowed from somewhere on the Web. The ones in the collage at the bottom are all mine.)
12 comments:
I agree, I hate chenging all the clocks twice a year. We don't chnge ours for another week. I guess each country is different.
we have aother week to go and for the first time in my entire lifetime of hating the time change, I am so happy for this one. I am now walking Beau at 7:20 because i hve to wait for daylight, next week it will still be 7:20 but the clock will say 6:20... ha ha
we voted to not have the time change and then the federal govt stepped in and said you can stay on daylight savings but you can't stay on regualr time. we are still chaning 3 years after we voted to stop...
It does seem ridiculous to change the time at all, and I'm not sure if there are any benefits from doing so. But you'll always find dissenters to whatever is suggested, and often they have the loudest voices.
I think the changes were originally made to help farmers, but whatever time we adopt, we're still going to have night and day - and know that now we will have long nights and short days.
Like you, I changed my clocks before I went to bed on Saturday evening, and the worst ones are always the two digital displays on the oven and microwave, which are in a housing unit, one above the other. No matter how hard I try, I can never get them to synchronise - one is always at least a minute slower!
Here, even in December, on our shortest days it doesn't get dark until around 6 p.m. and light at 8-8:30 a.m.
Same as you, I think the changing back and forth is completely unnecessary, and as far as I know, there is statistical proof that it has not really achieved the energy saving and other benefits that were promised when it was first introduced.
At home, I only have the clock on my oven that needs changing manually; everything else is automatic.
The „wrong“ one is your wristwatch, right?
My dad had a shop where every year they argued about which way the timer for the window lights needed to be changed. One year it was several weeks before they realised the lights were coming on at 4 o'clock in the morning.
Ginny, the European Union has been coordinated so far I think, but that may be changing. I know the clocks change at different dates (or not at all) in other parts of the world, though.
Sandra, I'm always happy to change back to "normal" (winter) time but even so I'm still not usually up as early as 7:20... Or even 8:20! ;)
CG, from the 1970s when it was first introduced here, I recall farmers being among the most worried about it - saying the cows wouldn't like it to have their milking time changed... Nowadays I don't know any farmers, so not sure what they're saying now. (Writing this at 5 pm and it's already all dark outside.)
Yes Meike - I remembered the wristwatch on my first round, but forgot it on my second, and didn't realise that until I took that photo. Then I thought I corrected it - only to discover today that it was still one hour wrong!! I'm getting too old for this!!! ;)
Tasker, you remind me that I forgot to include a timer for a lamp in the window of my study among the clocks to change manually...
We changed our clocks about a month ago, mind you we are in opposite seasons.
Amy, I suppose there's some sort of logic in that. (Apart from the fact that I'm not a fan of changing the clocks at all, I've never quite understood why it's not divided equally 6+6 months, but 7+5. It certainly doesn't make it any easier to keep up with the time differences across the globe!)
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