.... go forward 1 hour this weekend.

I don't know about you lot but I get fed up setting my alarm for 2am on the Sunday to go around changing all the clocks in the house!

 

Welcome back pissy

 

 

He had been gone for so long, thought he had died!
















Not every cloud has a sliver lining

 

Yikes he's alive!!!
Welcome back, how's the Honda?

 

The dreaded clock change on the farm.... and it's even worse when you have to turn them BACK! I've got 25 time clocks on the farm and half of them are analog. With the analog ones you can't turn them backwards so you have to turn them all the way around virtually 23 hours which takes bloody ages!

Also, a 1 hour change is too dramatic for poultry. You can't just get rid of an hour and expect the chickens to be OK. I have to adjust the time clocks by 20 minutes over a weeks period to gradually get the livestock used to the new time change! I did 20 mins on Tues, I'll do another 20 on Saturday and the final 20 next Tuesday. That's a total of 75 time clocks I have to mess around with....

 

Yes and wasn't this clock change originally introduced to help the farmers !

 

I have been following Pete's helpful reminders for years now & find them invaluable.

Merry Christmas for tomorrow everyone!!!!!!

 

I think they go back an hour at 2am sunday morning

 

 

pslewis welcome back, now get some fun back into scoobynet!!

 

 

Caught one at least.

 

Why not just put the clocks back an hour but do whatever you need to do 20 mins early each weekend on the lead up to the clock change - or do your clocks physically do something?

 

They must do, or he'd only have one.

 

Yes, they tell the time

Must be some fvcking clever chickens!

 

Bet he only came back for this thread and the. We won't see him again until next year

 

They control things suchs as the lighting in the sheds would you believe it or not . So what you've said wouldn't work as for example, if the lights in the sheds go off at 8pm, when you put the clocks back, technically it would be as if they go off at 7pm which means the chickens would lose an hours lighting.

 

 

If its artifical lighting in the sheds why the **** would you put them back? Just leave them the hell alone LOL

 

made me chuckle

 

Because they still have natural daylight as well. Plus there are other factors such as nest box times, nest lighting and feeding times which all have to work together with OUR time. I do know what I'm doing but thank you for your concern .

 

 

£800 oven and I still have set the clock after every power cut and season change.

Its about time every modern device did DST autonomously; I had a 1980's casio that could.

And why are modern clocks not as accurate? Be it digital, analogue, in a watch, phone or computer? The analogue quartz clock in my 33yr old Jag hasn't been touched for years (can't be arsed change the hour back/forward as its only used in the summer) and its still accurate within a minute. Compared to my iphone and PC, which when I disabled the auto time update was atrocious and can be five minutes ahead/behind in the space of a month, hell even a £1500 swiss watch doesn't keep time as well, gaining/losing a upto a minute a month!

 

Jeez, just when you thought it was safe to return,

Still trotting out the old troll stuff pissy

Bout time you got a new writer,

Mart

 

Tell me about it! My new rangemaster and microwave have to be reset every single time. My electronic heating and water metre is absolutely terrible at keeping time and gains more than 5 minutes every month.

 

And yet, I have a Casio W59 watch, has stopwatch, 12/24 hour readout, tells me the date, has an alarm function and keeps time to one second per month, It's water proof to 50m, all nylon and the battery lasts ten years......and all this for £6.99 delivered.

 

Don't forget, put it forward one hour:-)

 

On the Apple Watch you can roll time forward and watch the hour tick back, the most use I've found for that feature.

 

Thought pissy was dead and buried.