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Old 29-October-2005, 06:30 PM
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Exclamation British Summer Time Ends tonight

Just to remind UK posters, and alert everyone else

British Summer Time Ends tonight (Or technically at 02:00 tomorrow morning) when clocks are put back one hour.

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Old 29-October-2005, 10:42 PM
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Thanks!! I'd plum forgot the change!
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Same thing in (most of) the US. (There are someplaces that do not use Daylight Saving Time, so they won't have to change.)
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Same thing in (most of) the US. (There are someplaces that do not use Daylight Saving Time, so they won't have to change.)
Yeah ....

Hour's Extra Sleep!!!!

Whoo-HOO!!!!

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Old 30-October-2005, 12:30 AM
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Just to remind UK posters, and alert everyone else

British Summer Time Ends tonight (Or technically at 02:00 tomorrow morning) when clocks are put back one hour.

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Not only in Britain, but also on the continent - this time Britain didn't manage to do it at a different time than everyybody else.

And while I'm on nightshift
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Old 30-October-2005, 03:48 AM
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Well you lot can enjoy your extra hour of sleep...

I've just been ripped-off an hour



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Old 30-October-2005, 08:56 AM
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a few days of woking out what the time would have been(ie what the real time is) before accepting the new time.
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also, have to reset the time in the options.
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I only found out about a couple of hours before when I was looking something up on teletext and saw the time of a programme marked with a (GMT). There's a reason why it's done over the weekend.
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The alarm-cat, who is accustomed to meowing me awake at 5:00 A.M., naturally did so at 4:00 this morning. It usually takes her about a week to get adjusted.
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Oh yeah, i was really dumb and i thought it went 1 hour early... i wonder how they randomly adjust the tv shows do they just not show some of them?
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Oh yeah, i was really dumb and i thought it went 1 hour early... i wonder how they randomly adjust the tv shows do they just not show some of them?
Eh ....

Mostly Specials.

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