Clocks Back

First topic message reminder :




The time changes this weekend, on October 28 at 2:00 am which means you'll have a shorter night out if you're out clubbing until the wee hours but an extra hour in bed on Sunday morning if you like to be sensible. To remember which way to set your watch, there's a useful (albeit slightly American) mnemonic: “spring forward, fall back”.

It was an Englishman's idea...

In 1907, a man called William Willett introduced the idea of British Summer Time, also known as Daylight Saving Time in order to prevent people from wasting valuable hours of light during summer mornings.

Willett then spent the rest of his life trying to convince people his scheme was a good one.


Sadly, he died of the flu in 1915 at the age of 58; a year before Germany adopted his clock-changing plan on April 30, 1916 when the clocks were set forward at 11 pm. Britain followed suit a month later on May 21.





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Excellent rendition, Young grandad Tom...

Eat your heart out, Johnny Cash.......

The forum clock has sorted itself

they are now say the reason kids are fat is because we put the clocks back

My computer clock didn't set itself, I had to do it manually.

niether has mine, I'm sure it has before, I don't remember ever re setting my puter clock before,

I've just checked and it says, 'your computer is synked to windows.com' so i've never noticed before but it must change with the americaland time zones,

Mine is set properly to our time zone. Must be a scrrew up with Windows....But my phone didn't set itself either.

Not with Talk talk are you?

I love your guitar playing Tom..

thanks momac, you're too kind after I lost your £10 an all,

I realised when sat on Parbold hill about half an hour ago that it's me that's not set right, the bike was the right time, everything else wasn't...I have set everything back to the original time.

Never mind Tom..I live to play another day.

Did you GAMBLE, Momac?

Well what can I say to that Mac..I was unable to tune in to see that I'd won..so I suppose Tom thought I was'nt bothering..so you know the rest..anyway it's all fun isn't it.

I think the prize was £10 to gamble on his bandit machine momac.

I see Mrs A..at least I think I do.