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I find the time changes quite annoying. Clive is usually the first hamster asking to come out at around 18.30. Now of course with the clocks gone forward it's 19.30 and my chances of seeing Eddie who is a late riser are even slimmer.
I had a right good old moan about it at the barber's yesterday. Barber agreed, as they do since i was the customer and this question arose: who has the right to mess about with time and who made this decision in the first place? I cannot remember how this came about.
And nobody told the hamsters.
 
It is annoying and it will confuse the hamsters. I wonder if they will end up adjusting their routines.
 
I doubt it but will observe. My memory's too bad to recall the effect of the last spring time change.

Yep,19.30 and Clive was by his door. I was eating a slice of edam so gave him a tiny bit. Cheese wins it seems as Clive run to the back shelf to eat his edam first.
 
It is really annoying, it came about during the war to benefit farmers but how having an extra hours daylight at one end of the day is better than the other I have no idea, there was talk of scrapping it but I think covid got in the way or something.
I find myself thinking what time is it really all day trying to stick to the same routine for Zak!
 
Think it went back to World War 1 in order to give more daylight during working hours later on. This was to have more factory hours in particular which were needed for the war effort. It was never changed again.
A unified time across the country was as a result of the arrival of railways and the need for a timetable. As you go west, the sun sets later. So hopeless to try and timetable London - Bristol say, when the 2 cities had a slightly different time based on daylight. They needed to be on the same time for arrival and departure times.
 
The reason we change our clocks is because of Germany’s Imperial government in 1916, supposedly to boost the Teutonic war effort. British politicians, afraid this might be a secret weapon, followed suit and we have been stuck with it ever since despite a distinct lack of evidence that it boosts production, saves electricity or does anything else useful.
 
You think you've got problems! Raffy used to come out between 11pm and midnight - yawn - and now it will be an hour later! Unless he actually doesn't notice and goes with our evening routine rather than biorhythms.

I also don't like it. I wish they would just leave it as it is now all year round and not change it again in October. I am old enough to remember an experiment in the Uk where they decided not to change it for a year or two and even though I was quite young, I remember and preferred it. I've been whinging about it ever since. The argument for doing it again at the time was so the children didn't go to school in the dark in the mornings. Which I always thought was a bit pointless because then they come home from school in the dark instead!

In Spain they don't do it - so in winter, with the normal time and the fact they're further south, it's nice - stays light until about 7pm all year round. So although you don't get the light summer nights till really late, it's much better in winter, with a full day and more sunshine.
 
I also remember the experiment with no change in the time!
Also I thought we followed Germany on production but was not entirely sure.
The problem now is that it is always justified because of the darker mornings the further north you go. If Scotland went independent in the future perhaps we could have a different time to them!
 
To be on Greenwich Mean Time we need to put the clocks back just one more time in October and then leave them there.
 
Albert the Dwarf Hamster said:
To be on Greenwich Mean Time we need to put the clocks back just one more time in October and then leave them there.
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Oh is that how it works? I'd prefer them to leave it as now - it's too dark at night in winter if we put them back again!
 
I agree with this!

"Having just passed the Summer Equinox, we’re experiencing all the benefits and drawbacks of extremely long days. Yet the only reason it gets light so early is that we continue to put our clocks forward – a change that can interrupt our circadian rhythms, and cause up to three weeks of insomnia."

www.samsltd.co.uk

Is it time to get rid of British Summer Time? | SAMS Ltd

With complaints that changing the clocks interrupts our sleep and harms our health, is it time that we got rid of British Summer Time and stuck with GMT?
www.samsltd.co.uk www.samsltd.co.uk
 
I like the option of switching to British Summertime permanently (ie don't move the clocks back again in October) - better winter evenings.
 
Eeurgh - Raffy was pestering to come out at 1.30am! Not a sign of him before then. I should have just gone to bed but my own body clock is not quite adjusted to the time change either! So it was the usual thing - just as I was feeling I need to go to bed, he wants to come out.

So biorhythms it is - not usual night time routine.
 
I’ve given up fighting biorhythms, I still get up & go to bed at the same time, it’s just that the clock says something different!
 
It definitely affects me re biorhythms. I always try and ignore it and go by the clock, but 11pm didn't feel like 11pm last night! And you feel hungry at the wrong time of day. That article said it can cause insomnia for a week!

Annoyingly OH says it doesn't affect him in the slightest and I think that's the case for some people.
 
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