Changing to summer time

[SteveD]

How many clocks, watches, timers etc have you had to change?

(Reply tomorrow (Sunday) when you've done them all).

[smudge]

We have 15 to change in our house, icluding the central heating timer!

[smudge]

*including

[smudge]

I won't be able to reply tomorrow as we have visitors coming shortly & staying until tomorrow night. Better get my skates on..........

[NORMANTHEDOG]

including the 4 kids bedrooms,we have 48 to change,i do them at about 10.30 tonight.

[Morrisonker]

oh man, I totally forgot about this. Damn it. I'm going out tonight and going to be a wreck at work tomorrow morning :(

[kriskwery]

It's such a chore!

I am a single-person household but can muster 32 items! Watches, clocks, mobiles, tv/video, radios/stereos, central heating/immersion, cooker, microwave, mp3, thermometer, car, computer, cameras, etc! Something usually gets missed so this year I've made a list to keep - sad or wot?!

[Toureman]

Why don't you all invest in the radio control clocks, there getting cheap now and they change the times themselves! also they are always correct to the second.

When the clocks change I do not alter them.

[SteveD]

Toureman, I suppose some (but by no means all) of the following are available as radio controlled clocks, but this is what I have had to change (only the PC, the hi-fi, a travel clock and a car clock are RDS):

Wristwatches: 2

Bedside radio/alarms: 3

Clock near PC: 1

Kitchen clock: 1

Oven: 1

Microwave: 1

Clock in hall: 1

Clock on mantlepiece: 1

Video recorder: 1

Hi-Fi: 1

Clock by TV: 1

Central heating timer: 1

Clock in garage: 1

That makes 16 (but I bet I've forgotten something). It's not too bad at this time of year just nudging them on an hour, but it gets on my nerves in October when many of them have to be moved on 11 hours.

[SteveD]

I knew I had forgotten something: 2 mobile phones + the fixed phone! That makes 19 now.

[sixpence]

Whoops. Sitting here all smug thinking we'd done all of ours and now smudge mentions the central heating clock. Bye!!

[shaneystar2]

We only have two clocks..radio ones. The video and DVDrecorder do it on their own too ! I had to alter my alarm clock though .Very complicated.....!
But the shame this morning of popping out to get a paper and looking at my watch....9.30.am . Somerfields don't open until 10.00 am. Walked back all the way down the High St....to see the big clock at the library at 10.30am ! Felt a fool and had to go all the way back again !!

[WendyS]

I had to smile at all these posts because my husband has faithfully taken on this twice-annual chore and it seems to take up most of Sunday morning. I'd forgotten that the rest of the country is engaged on a similar marathon. Without a three hour consultation of my car manual I can't change the clock on my dashboard so simply leave it alone and know that for six months at least, it's telling me the right time !! And ye Gods - do you have to change the clock on your mobile phone as well? I can't even remember its number!

Just think what our great grandparents are missing!. They would simply move the hands on their one clockwork clock, wind it up and go to bed. And that was that for six months! Life was much simpler, if less convenient, in the old days.

[spacechimp]

Did the BBC forget to go back to GMT for a while last year? Teletext time was wrong :O

[lia*]

i never bother to change any except my watch. i couldn't keep up. too much time involve.

[Gef]

I won't have to bother as I leave everything on GMT. My computer does it automatically so I just check that if I am unsure.