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clocks
Mar 30, 2020 19:08:00 GMT
Post by jdl on Mar 30, 2020 19:08:00 GMT
Microwave Wrist watch Car Those are the only 3 I've got to do. I'll go and do the car now, out of boredom. A clock in every room, JDL? People will start thinking you're weird, obsessive and old-fashioned! Reminds me of a colleague who had one of those little square alarm clocks with an AA battery in the back. He took the battery out every morning, put it back in at bedtime and reset the time, to economise on the battery! The meanest person I've ever met in my life. It used to be normal! And without at least 6 of those clocks, I'd never get the kids to school on time. Anyway, it's worse because I wasn't counting the two clocks that automatically reset and the ones on the microwave and oven, which I can't be arsed to set, so they just tell their own weird time.
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clocks
Mar 30, 2020 19:12:19 GMT
Post by jdl on Mar 30, 2020 19:12:19 GMT
Back in the 70s they stopped this madness for a year or two, we stayed on BST all year round. It was wonderful. But then, for no reason I can remember, they just started doing it again!!
We have at least one clock in every room, so twice a year, as I adjust ELEVEN bloody clocks, I am reminded of this madness... You can legitimately 'blame' the Scots for that. The extra period of morning darkness in the winter months that far north was deemed 'less safe' for kids getting to school. I'm more than happy for the Scots to have their own time zone. Why should I have to change my clocks because they choose to live so far bloody north?!
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clocks
Apr 3, 2020 17:10:29 GMT
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Post by rollingstone on Apr 3, 2020 17:10:29 GMT
I remember a few years ago, Jersey wanted to change their clocks and move one hour ahead, but it never happened . They had been made to put the clocks forward, to European time by the Germans, during the occupation in world war 2
It is always a weird feeling being on the channel island of alderney and being able to see buildings in the distance In France and know that they are an hour in front!
Watching British TV in Gibraltar is weird, as they are an hour in front, so the watching the 6pm bbc or itv news at 7pm is a bit strange.
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