Don't forget to adjust your clocks!

Also the beginning of the time of year when the Bees and Wasps come out to play. (and sting you)

As you've probably guessed, anything that flies and can sting doesn't have a very good reputation with me...

For me, Moscow summer time will begin 3 hours earlier . Can't understand what has that thick layer of snow got to do with summer, though .

Our time is based on the observation of the sun at its highest point in the sky (noon). GMT is just the nation using the same time as Greenwich. Let us never forget that this all came about as a result of the adaptation of 'Railway Time' to allow the timetables to be understood more easily when trains were travelling west.
In these days of computers, it would be wonderfully easy to show the EU what we think of its directives by reverting once more to local time, with towns to the east of Greenwich running ahead and those to the west running behind. It is exactly what the Americans do when they drive across the country and pass through timezones except, instead of doing it every few hundred miles, you would do it every few hundred yards.
And before someone asks how we would tell the time when travelling, no problem. GPS wristwatches!

Soon after the GWR opened, I think. Got a postcard in my collection: The sun sets 20 minutes later in the West! Wonderful. It's an orange colour, with rough blue 'timelines' vertically.

I don't need to worry about putting my clocks forward before I go to bed - both my watch and my alarm clock take the time from a radio signal, so they will automatically go forward an hour while I sleep.

(If I'm an hour late booking on tomorrow, the technology has failed me!)

1842?

Russ

<pedant>0100 this morning Alan, not 0200... it goes to 0200 at 0100 </pedant>

Phil is right in what he says, i go to work about 9.15, live near glasgow, and it can be pitch dark even at that time. would not want another hour of darkness in the mornings, depressing enough as it is.

The clocks go forward at 01:00 and back at 02:00.

Oops! Must admit I always thought it was 2am whether the clocks were going back or forwards! Not that it makes much difference to me as I always have my clocks set the night before anyway!

I was right then, Colin.

As stated in EU Directive 2000/84/EC

Well, my radio-signal-controlled clock, updated the time at 00.59. There was no 01.00-01.59, just straight to 02.00. I watched it do this...

For those STILL confused about all this clock-changing thing, remember this
SPRING FORWARD - FALL BACK

Spring as in the time of year it is now, [or appears to be, despite a 50mph wind howling through the building] and Fall refers to autumn when the leaves FALL off the trees. Simple, plain explaination,