The clocks went back!
It’s a very strange day. The sun is shining and the sky is a beautiful blue, but the time seems to be passing so slowly. I suppose it’s because my watch tells me one thing but my body clock tells me something different.
I know that in a couple of hours the sun will set. We shall draw the curtains when it’s completely dark and wake tomorrow to a lighter morning. The light mornings don’t continue for long and by the shortest day in December there will be more dark than daylight.
Right now I wake up to darkness at 6:30 AM , but We have daylight savings time next week and will change our clocks and I will be be waking up to light at 6:30 AM... It was also start to get dark earlier. Boo hoo..
ReplyDeleteSwings and roundabouts . . . but you're in Florida now, aren't you?
DeleteThat is a beautiful clock.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It was an impulse buy many years ago.
DeleteI love that clock. I'm not happy about daylight savings, but the birds still wake up at the same time they always do, so the clock says 6.30am but the birds tell me it's really 5.30am because that's their usual wake up morning chorus.
ReplyDeleteThe birds are confused enough by artificial lighting, without clocks changing.😂
DeleteIn hot, sunny climates, the light mornings probably last much longer than, say, in the UK :)
ReplyDeleteYou made me think. I found this:
Delete'Only about a third of the world's countries practice daylight saving time, and most of those are in Europe and North America. Countries in equatorial regions don't change the time because there's little variation in daylight length throughout the year.'
Somehow, I hadn't realized until today that the UK did this. Ours go back next weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt's part of the late autumn ritual!
DeleteHello from northern Canada...with the darkest of winters (but still worth it.)
ReplyDeleteDark and very cold, I imagine. 😀
DeleteI hope you spent your extra hour productively.
ReplyDelete. . . but, of course . . . 🤣
DeleteI'm so glad Hawaii does not have to set their clocks forward or backward every fall and spring like we had to do in Illinois. Unfortunately, my daughter lives in Illinois so we have to remember the time change when we make any calls. We did get a call recently at 5:00 in the morning from someone who forgot.
ReplyDeleteIt must be difficult across much of the States, with so much vast territory, to time 'phone calls at acceptable hours.
DeleteDon't you just love it when the clocks change ... huh...
ReplyDeleteI don't mind so much now I don't have to go out to work. All the clocks change automatically on computers and so forth, so I don't have to 'remember.'
DeleteBeautiful clock ... at least we only have one time change ... I enjoyed my extra hour - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI think UK had double summer time during the war and then again in 1947, but not since then, fortunately.
DeleteMy body is all over the place after a week in Spain, where they were an hour infront of us, coming home and a few days later our clocks change, we are living by our clock, but I'm tired all the time.
ReplyDeleteOh, dear, you must be two hours out of synch now. That is tiring.
DeleteWe will do our time change the first Sunday in November. They decided quite a few years ago on this so that the children could trick or treat in daylight. What a shame we have to be so cautious anymore.
ReplyDeleteSo much of childhood is now blighted by caution and fear. It's sad.
DeleteDamn that bloody William Willet! He has got a lot to answer for!
ReplyDeleteCorrection: Willett had two "t"s.
DeleteI had to look up William Willett. An interesting if short-lived life. I wonder what his great-great grandson thinks about daylight saving.
DeleteIt was a good, but windless, day out on the Solent. Remarkably mild for the tipping point of the seasons.
ReplyDeleteA drifting rather than sailing day, with a good engine to bonk back.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous clock, I can just imagine it's sonorous tick, lovely.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
It chimes every 15 minutes, which is disturbing for those not used to it, especially at night!😁
ReplyDeleteUS clocks in most states fall back next weekend.
ReplyDeleteUK seems to be ahead of the rest of the world - makes a change. 😎
ReplyDeleteOurs fall back soon.
ReplyDeleteIt's the final end to summer . . .
ReplyDeleteOurs fall back next weekend. I hate the shorter days.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye summer, goodbye Daylight Saving Time. We don't turn our clocks back here in the United States until the first Sunday in November. How I hate those early sunsets.
ReplyDeleteThe early ending to the day seems all wrong, but we get used to it - no choice, really.
DeleteThat clock is lovely ...
ReplyDeleteI find it takes me a couple of days (at least) to adjust to the different time. The clock is saying what the time is but the body doesn't always see it that way!
All the best Jan
I don't remember the adjustment lasting as long as it has this year. Very odd!
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