I believe that in some countries/ regions, they advanced their clocks by 1 hour today..... are you in an affected area and what are the reasons/implications of doing this.
Excuse Me... What Time Is It?
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chrisbassist
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Clocks went back, not forward. It's about daylight savings. Basically making a small adjustment to have more of the day in daylight, and less in the dark. Thereby using less energy with lights (ESP on cars). I believe it was originally for the farmers, but I think it makes sense anyway.
seffieuk
I used to be indecisive but now I'm not so sure!
'for farmers' is a commen misconception, take a look:
2007 marked 100 years since British Summer Time was first proposed by William Willett. Changing the clocks for summer time is now an annual ritual in Britain and countries around the world. But why change the clocks, which way should they go, and whose idea was it in the first place?
William Willett saves the daylight, 1907–15
Bridle path through Petts Wood ©NMM. Repro ID: F6423-039 The idea of British Summer Time (BST), also known as Daylight Saving Time, was first proposed in Britain by a keen horse-rider, William Willett, who was incensed at the 'waste' of useful daylight first thing in the morning, during summer. Though the sun had been up for hours during his rides through the local woods in Chislehurst and Petts Wood, people were still asleep in bed.
Willett was not the first to propose such a scheme; in 1895 an entomologist in New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society outlining a daylight saving scheme which was eventually trialled successfully in New Zealand in 1927.
In 1907 Willett published a pamphlet called The Waste of Daylight, outlining plans to encourage people out of bed earlier in summer by changing the time on the nation’s clocks. He spent the rest of his life fighting to get acceptance of his time-shifting scheme. He died in 1915 with the Government still refusing to back BST. But the following year, Germany introduced the system. Britain followed in May 1916, and we have been 'changing the clocks' ever since.
The first day of Summer Time, 1916
Home Office poster announcing restoration of Greenwich Time, 1916 ©Private collection Britain first adopted William Willett's Daylight Saving Time scheme in 1916, a few weeks after Germany. For years, the British Government had refused to introduce Daylight Saving Time, but by then, Britain and Germany were fighting each other in the First World War (1914-18), and any system that could save fuel and money was worth trying. The Summer Time Act of 1916 was quickly passed by Parliament and the first day of British Summer Time, 21 May 1916, was widely reported in the press.
Clocks and watches were very different from those we use today. Many clocks could not have their hands turned backwards without breaking the mechanism. Instead, owners had to put the clock forward by 11 hours when Summer Time came to an end. The Home Office put out special posters telling people how to reset their clocks to GMT, and national newspapers also gave advice.
Changing times, 1918–39
The Willett memorial in Petts Wood ©NMM. Repro ID: F6423-060 William Willett, the tireless champion of the Summer Time scheme, died in 1915. By the 1920s, however, he was becoming a posthumous hero, as more and more people backed his daylight-saving plan. Public money was raised to buy and preserve Petts Wood. This was partly to act as a living memorial to Willett, but mostly as local residents wanted to prevent building development encroaching on their green spaces. A sundial – keeping British Summer Time, not Greenwich Mean Time – was erected there in a clearing.
Willett had become an icon of daylight. A portrait was painted; a bronze bust was sculpted; a pub was named in his memory, and in 1931 a wax figure was unveiled at Madame Tussaud’s in London. But not everybody had come round to Willett's way of thinking: over the subsequent years, dissenting voices were heard.
Permanent summer, 1968–71
In 1968, the clocks went forward as usual in March, but in the autumn, they did not return to Greenwich Mean Time. Britain had entered a three-year experiment, confusingly called British Standard Time, and stayed one hour ahead of Greenwich until 1971.
This was not the first experiment to shift the clocks in winter. In the Second World War (1939-45), Britain had adopted Double British Summer Time, with the clocks one hour ahead of Greenwich in winter and two hours ahead in summer.
Facts taken from the National Maritime Museum
2007 marked 100 years since British Summer Time was first proposed by William Willett. Changing the clocks for summer time is now an annual ritual in Britain and countries around the world. But why change the clocks, which way should they go, and whose idea was it in the first place?
William Willett saves the daylight, 1907–15
Bridle path through Petts Wood ©NMM. Repro ID: F6423-039 The idea of British Summer Time (BST), also known as Daylight Saving Time, was first proposed in Britain by a keen horse-rider, William Willett, who was incensed at the 'waste' of useful daylight first thing in the morning, during summer. Though the sun had been up for hours during his rides through the local woods in Chislehurst and Petts Wood, people were still asleep in bed.
Willett was not the first to propose such a scheme; in 1895 an entomologist in New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society outlining a daylight saving scheme which was eventually trialled successfully in New Zealand in 1927.
In 1907 Willett published a pamphlet called The Waste of Daylight, outlining plans to encourage people out of bed earlier in summer by changing the time on the nation’s clocks. He spent the rest of his life fighting to get acceptance of his time-shifting scheme. He died in 1915 with the Government still refusing to back BST. But the following year, Germany introduced the system. Britain followed in May 1916, and we have been 'changing the clocks' ever since.
The first day of Summer Time, 1916
Home Office poster announcing restoration of Greenwich Time, 1916 ©Private collection Britain first adopted William Willett's Daylight Saving Time scheme in 1916, a few weeks after Germany. For years, the British Government had refused to introduce Daylight Saving Time, but by then, Britain and Germany were fighting each other in the First World War (1914-18), and any system that could save fuel and money was worth trying. The Summer Time Act of 1916 was quickly passed by Parliament and the first day of British Summer Time, 21 May 1916, was widely reported in the press.
Clocks and watches were very different from those we use today. Many clocks could not have their hands turned backwards without breaking the mechanism. Instead, owners had to put the clock forward by 11 hours when Summer Time came to an end. The Home Office put out special posters telling people how to reset their clocks to GMT, and national newspapers also gave advice.
Changing times, 1918–39
The Willett memorial in Petts Wood ©NMM. Repro ID: F6423-060 William Willett, the tireless champion of the Summer Time scheme, died in 1915. By the 1920s, however, he was becoming a posthumous hero, as more and more people backed his daylight-saving plan. Public money was raised to buy and preserve Petts Wood. This was partly to act as a living memorial to Willett, but mostly as local residents wanted to prevent building development encroaching on their green spaces. A sundial – keeping British Summer Time, not Greenwich Mean Time – was erected there in a clearing.
Willett had become an icon of daylight. A portrait was painted; a bronze bust was sculpted; a pub was named in his memory, and in 1931 a wax figure was unveiled at Madame Tussaud’s in London. But not everybody had come round to Willett's way of thinking: over the subsequent years, dissenting voices were heard.
Permanent summer, 1968–71
In 1968, the clocks went forward as usual in March, but in the autumn, they did not return to Greenwich Mean Time. Britain had entered a three-year experiment, confusingly called British Standard Time, and stayed one hour ahead of Greenwich until 1971.
This was not the first experiment to shift the clocks in winter. In the Second World War (1939-45), Britain had adopted Double British Summer Time, with the clocks one hour ahead of Greenwich in winter and two hours ahead in summer.
Facts taken from the National Maritime Museum
the biffster
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your went back an hour in the UK
i wish they would leave it alone
or put it to double british summer time
i hate winter i get S.A.Ds
seasonal adjustment
disorder
i wish they would leave it alone
or put it to double british summer time
i hate winter i get S.A.Ds
seasonal adjustmentdisorder
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"Excuse Me... What Time Is It?"
It's 9:30am Lud.
Which still leaves South Africa six hours ahead of you lot.. (but one century behind)! 
U.S. changes over next weekend, 3:30 am (or somewhere around there) Sunday, 7 November. Better for having light when I drive into work, worse for it being dark when driving home.
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"Excuse Me... What Time Is It?"
It's 9:30am Lud.
A century is a bit unfair to us.... Let's call it a decade.
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its 5.35 here in the uk
and its pitch black and
i hate it come back light
nights soon
and its pitch black and
i hate it come back light
nights soon
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its 5.35 here in the uk
and its pitch black and
i hate it come back light
nights soon
So, Biffs... you are only 2 hours behind us.
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yeah but i hate dark nights
is it just getting dark over there
i some times wish we could have longer days
and shorter nights
is it just getting dark over there
i some times wish we could have longer days
and shorter nights
morgan
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Biffster, have you got a SAD lamp? My son has one and they really work well. I don't have SAD but don't like the shorter days. 
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Biffster, have you got a SAD lamp? My son has one and they really work well. I don't have SAD but don't like the shorter days.
my bulb as just gone i need
to get another i will have to
have a run over to maplins to
get another i also take vitamin
B complex that also helps
morgan
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I'm glad you've got one. People used to think SAD was "all in the mind" but it is a real physical disorder.
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i have suffered form it
for years now it must be
at least 18 years found
out the year before i got married
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