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~YuckFou~

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It says the time is GMT, but it is an hour out?
or I'm fubar, dunno which.
 
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wolfeeh

Guest
isn't it...

... about fucking time we stopped moving the sodding clocks back and forth... i mean fucksake the world never sleeps.
 
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(Shovel)

Guest
Nah, we only move the clocks around cause before conbinharvesters were invented the farmers had to get up at 4 am to bring the corn home.

Nowadays there's no advantage to it whatsoever in my opinion.
 
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xane

Guest
Originally posted by Shovel
Nah, we only move the clocks around cause before conbinharvesters were invented the farmers had to get up at 4 am to bring the corn home.
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There are lots of reasons, but the farmers are not one of them, they have always got up when the cock crows, regardless of what the clock said, nature waits for no-one.

BST was first proposed in 1907 and decreed by parliament in 1916, by which time mechanisation of farming was well underway.

Principly it was to allow the rest of the country other than the farmers to take advantage of the extra hours of sunlight in the evening, this also reduces power use. During the war we had "double summer time" when the clocks were put forward 2 hours, purely for productive reasons.

The only reason for keeping the shift in time is the north of the country would still be in darkness at 9-10am if we stayed in BST.
 
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(Shovel)

Guest
Fair enough. Seeing as I'm moving north, that sounds pretty reasonable :D
 
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Gekul

Guest
The minutes are also wrong (or all the clocks in my house need adjusting).
 
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~YuckFou~

Guest
I noticed that this morning.....did someone forget to wind the BarryClock?
 
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Munkey-

Guest
Originally posted by camazotz


There are lots of reasons, but the farmers are not one of them, they have always got up when the cock crows, regardless of what the clock said, nature waits for no-one.

BST was first proposed in 1907 and decreed by parliament in 1916, by which time mechanisation of farming was well underway.

Principly it was to allow the rest of the country other than the farmers to take advantage of the extra hours of sunlight in the evening, this also reduces power use. During the war we had "double summer time" when the clocks were put forward 2 hours, purely for productive reasons.

The only reason for keeping the shift in time is the north of the country would still be in darkness at 9-10am if we stayed in BST.
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well sorrrrrryyyyyyyyy!!!!!11

i thought that PM had something to do with it. Gladstone?
 
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Embattle

Guest
Originally posted by ~YuckFou~
I noticed that this morning.....did someone forget to wind the BarryClock?
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I noticed it last night but my eyes were failing so I wasn't sure.
 
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Sar

Guest
Yeah it's about 7 mins out or something.

Edit: Aye, 7 mins slow.
 
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xane

Guest
Originally posted by Sar
Yeah it's about 7 mins out or something.

Edit: Aye, 7 mins slow.
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Maybe we've all got really bad pings, like 42,000ms :)
 
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Sar

Guest
Lol

Well the way my cable's been recently I'd not be surprised tbh :p
 
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