I'm bored :P

 

Remember, for the U.K. people at least (not 100% sure if the rest of Europe is the same) at 1:00 tomorrow morning it will become 2:00, you lose an hour of lovely sleep :veryangry: as we jump onto British Summer Time, leaving Greenwich Mean Time behind until October.

 

So Remember to change your clocks :D

Awww what?!?! That sucks! Man. I want my damn sleep.

 

 

I guess that means it'll be light longer though. That's a good thing I guess. It means I can stay outside playing basketball longer (my mommy says I'm not allowed out in the dark - and my garden doesn't have streetlamps :( )

It gets dark quickly. One moment it was light, the next moment when I looked out of the window 20 minutes later it was dark.

yay, back to a normal footie schedule for me. Early UK game (noon) will now start at regular (6am) time here.....cuz who wants to wait til 7am for footie! :laugh3:

How is Texas these days?

hot .....and fucking pollen all over my car :veryangry:

 

so do you change back in Oct or Nov? We are changing in Nov, but I'm traveling to London Oct 29 and all this everyone changing at different times crap is doing my head in.

According to my calender, we change back to GMT on the 27/28th October.

 

Again, I'm not sure about the rest of Europe, I think they are the same date.

Time change marking end of an era

British timekeeping will mark the end of an era when the nation switches to summer time in Sunday's early hours.

 

(The change to BST marks the end of an era for British timekeeping)

 

It will be the last time a British time change will be signalled from Rugby, in Warwickshire, which has been the source of the time signal since 1927.

 

From 31 March, the long-wave signal, used to keep the "pips" heard on BBC radio services accurate, will start to be broadcast from Anthorn, Cumbria.

 

The contract to transmit the signal is switching from BT to VT Communications.

 

Users of the signal, such as emergency services, banks and mobile phone networks, should not notice any change.

 

"The signal is already up and running and they are swapping between the two," said Fiona Auty of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), which has responsibility for the time signal.

 

"So there are times when people are picking up the signal from Cumbria without even knowing it."

 

World clock

 

The national time signal is accurate to within 1,000th of a second of Co-ordinated Universal Time.

 

It is controlled by two caesium atomic clocks housed at the antenna in Rugby.

 

"They are typically accurate to tens of nanoseconds, or billionths of a second, over a day," said NPL's Dr Peter Whibberley.

 

These are kept in line by comparing them to GPS signals and a suite of reference clocks at NPL in Surrey.

 

"That allows us to get a good measure of whether those clocks are changing - we can then apply an adjustment if necessary," said Dr Whibberley.

 

The master clocks at NPL are in turn kept in check by comparing them with measurements from atomic clocks around the world, a task co-ordinated by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), near Paris.

 

Changing hands

 

The national time signal underpins many aspects of society.

 

"It's used incredibly heavily by police, the ambulance service, the fire brigade, in speed cameras on the road and clocks in train stations," said Miss Auty.

 

In addition, many home users have the relatively inexpensive receivers in appliances such as digital TV boxes.

 

All receive the MSF 60 kHz signal, as it is known, currently transmitted from the Rugby Radio Station by BT under contract from NPL.

 

But the telecom company's contract has now expired, and responsibility for broadcasting the signal has changed hands to VT Communications.

 

Their mast, located on a Ministry of Defence site in Anthorn, on the west coast of Cumbria, will be easier to maintain than the older antenna in Rugby.

 

It will start broadcasting the national time signal around the clock from midnight on 31 March, one week after the switch to British Summer Time.

 

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/6483969.stm

oh i thought this thread was about something else.

 

yeah its the same over here. i dont wanna lose an hour of sleep. :angry:

oh i thought this thread was about something else.

 

yeah its the same over here. i dont wanna lose an hour of sleep. :angry:

 

What else did you think it was about then ;)

the fact that scotland are more likely to qualify for the european championship than england.

And I bet you wouldn't think that when the draw was made. Scotland coming though a group which contained both world cup finalists.

Yup, it's the same here tonight. Although we change the time at 3am

And I bet you wouldn't think that when the draw was made. Scotland coming though a group which contained both world cup finalists.

 

true, i thought england were really lucky with their draw. they played badly in the games ive seen when i lived there, so i wasnt even that surprised about today result.

 

and scotland are doing really well, wouldnt have thought they had much of a chance to qualify.

Yup, it's the same here tonight. Although we change the time at 3am

 

we change our clocks at 2 AM (1 AM in the UK)

Argh. I hate it! I'm in work at 9am tomorrow so will lose an hour of sleep. Should really go to bed but not even close to tired. Grrr

 

Like it when it's the other way round though, obviously ;)

ooooooooooh!

this explains why the time changed on the forum!!! :rolleyes: