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The new date for putting the clocks forward didn't seem to cause any problems for our computers or cellphones, but the self-correcting radio clock thing (the only one that's usually even close to the real time in our house) has not yet updated. roll

I don't understand all this need to faff about with the clocks. Ooh look, it's lighter longer in the evenings. but the children are once again going to school in the dark. twisted

It's like when they add a seond here and there. pfffft. It takes way longer than that to change the clocks. Let's just wait until it's 12 hours then have an all-nighter. ;)

Any clock trouble with you?
Apart from Sunday morning having to be up at 6am (felt like 5am of course) for Kickline competition! evil
The body clock in LW2 doesn't seem to have sprung forward... bedtime last night was something of a nightmare.... breakfast was oddly quiet though this morning.
I had no trouble getting up at 630 on Saturday but a big problem getting up at 730 Sunday.

My so-called atomic clock is still having a fit today. Yesterday morning, all was right with it - it changed over to the new time perfectly. At 8pm yesterday the hands started going round and round and stopped at 7pm. This morning all was right again and remained so until 4pm this afternoon. Right now it says 110 instead of 510 and the second hand is moving by two or four-second intervals. Perhaps when the next four-hour wave comes through it will be right again. I am used to it taking 24 hours to set itself correctly but this is getting silly....

I'd better check my atomic alarm clock before I go to bed tonight!
Its an hour for crying out loud, we're not moving time zones, if I hear my wife complain once more about the "dramatic change she is going to have to adapt to" I'll do something quite silly!
Daylight saving time is a P.I.T.A .

The pets get annoyed as they get feed at a differant hour try explaining to a cat the need for more light in the morning ,or vise versa

and the birds dont eat when its dark so no good filling the feeders at night so have to take care of that earlier
I think its disgraceful that Canada has to adopt this dopey American idea.

I'm just glad they now need passports to travel here now. The place seems less full of them lately, which is refreshing.
I can;t imagine a human routine so rigorous that an hour makes a differnce! Sure, animals can tell, but why make them conform?
What a farce. the atomic clocks were the only ones that screwed up, how ridiculous is that!
I noticed. My body clock refuses to conform, I want my meals earlier.
Also my kitty wakes me way too early, and it's still dark.
Bloody rubbish, the whole thing, based on 20 year old research formed before that thing with all the tubes and such, what's it called, internet is it! roll
Our Atomic clock finally updated sometime yesterday. nuts.
Our atomic clocks were perfect, no problem at all, must be living on the edge of the western world that does it. roll
My body clock is just screwed up. Partly due to the fact I tended to work very strange and long hours in the UK, then moved here and have the difference of uk time to US time lol. I still wake up at 12.00 or 3.00 am here because if it was a normal work day in the UK, thats the time I would wake up lol.

When we go back to the UK I am super awake, does not seem to worry my body, but the wife she asleep within half hour of arriving in the UK lol. Come back to the US and I am asleep and the wife is ok lol.

Oh well good news is that at least there is someone to drive thats awake on either side of the atlantic
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