Heartland

Gah! It's that time of year again. When the Met Office or farmers or someone else I don't like starts playing silly buggers with THE VERY FABRIC OF OUR UNIVERSE - I.E TIME!!

Yep, if you're anything like me, you too will need to be informed that the clocks went back last night.

I have been wandering about in confusion all day today, looking at clocks which are still on British Summer Time and thinking "It's not that late already is it?" Discombobulation abounds as some clocks in my house automatically switch themselves, leaving me travelling back and forth in time depending on whether I'm in the kitchen or in the living room .

This audacious nonsense also means that it will soon be getting dark at bloody 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after which I'm awake for another 12 hours so what's the point in that? So that some in-bred twit can get up and plough a field at a godawful hour of the morning?

ENOUGH ALREADY! BOYCOTT TIME THIEVERY!!!

Thank you.

Looks like Quiffy is boycotting it. The clock on Heartland hasn't gone back yet

I hate having to change the clocks, watches, video recorder, phone, dvd player, computer here, computer at work, my flatmates phone, clock on the stereo..................

Last December when my school ended at twenty to four, I got home at about half-past four on the bus. By the time I got home it had usually been dark for about 10 minutes.

This year the school ends at four. My bus is at half-past four, and I'll probably get home at five. It'll be dark before I even set off on my journey home.

Depressing. Not even goth, just plain depressing.

Yet another thing I don't have to worry about. Bless my sun drenched country

Motz wrote:Looks like Quiffy is boycotting it. The clock on Heartland hasn't gone back yet

The clock on HL works on UTC, taking it's time from the hardware. Users set their local time in their profile, which allows those foreign types to choose Johnny-Foreigner-Time instead of Greenwich Mean Time.

hallucienate wrote:Yet another thing I don't have to worry about. Bless my sun drenched country

Me neither. Bless my 8.35-15.35 school day

And yes Korin, I'm deliberately ignoring the fact that longer days means longer holidays

lazarus corporation wrote:

Motz wrote:Looks like Quiffy is boycotting it. The clock on Heartland hasn't gone back yet

The clock on HL works on UTC, taking it's time from the hardware. Users set their local time in their profile, which allows those foreign types to choose Johnny-Foreigner-Time instead of Greenwich Mean Time.

Like me, and I don't need to change the time in my profile Just a minor update to my location

Dark wrote:dark for about 10 minutes.

That's quite enough for anyone...

Had to update from GMT +2 to +1 too...

Most of our clocks have gone automatic nowadays, but still a couple to change... Just realised my genuine fake watch was running a bit late

boudicca wrote:

Dark wrote:dark for about 10 minutes.

That's quite enough for anyone...

you dirty tramp

boudicca wrote:

Dark wrote:dark for about 10 minutes.

That's quite enough for anyone...

Speak for yourself, boudicca

Oi, shaddap.

If 10 minutes of me was enough, 'e'd've caught the next train home instead of spending 6 hours in my overgothed presence

How i detest putting the clocks back! At this particular time of my life i will get to enjoy 3 hours of daylight a day!!

Dark wrote:Oi, shaddap.

If 10 minutes of me was enough, 'e'd've caught the next train home instead of spending 6 hours in my overgothed presence

Too much but never enough, dear

Twinkle, twinkle, etc

What you all seem to forget is-one Saturday soon you will fall out of a public house at 3pm ,barely able to stand or speak and that sense of well being you have will not disappear just because it's daylight.
Day well spent-taxi fare home-cup a soup-bed.

Bliss

boudicca wrote:ENOUGH ALREADY! BOYCOTT TIME THIEVERY!!!

get a job

James Blast wrote:

boudicca wrote:ENOUGH ALREADY! BOYCOTT TIME THIEVERY!!!

get a job

So I can complain about it?



anyway...

It'll be handbags at 12 paces if this doesn't slow down

Motz wrote:It'll be handbags at 12 paces if this doesn't slow down

If I could be arsed.

Nope. This thread is about TIME; The Thievery Of.

@Boudicca: in your new avatar you look as if you're mourning. Did the time change hit you that hard?

canon docre wrote:@Boudicca: in your new avatar you look as if you're mourning. Did the time change hit you that hard?

The name of the file on my compter is "smiling"...

I'm one of them people that has problems with numbers.
and, as such, I really have no idea what time it is. At all.
I'm starting to worry

boudicca wrote:

canon docre wrote:@Boudicca: in your new avatar you look as if you're mourning. Did the time change hit you that hard?

The name of the file on my compter is "smiling"...

I guess you out-goffed everyone else on here now.

d00mw0lf wrote:I'm one of them people that has problems with numbers.

Of the magical, phat variety?