Don’t forget to “spring forward” one hour tonight… 
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I’ll try, but I really hate that and wish they would stop threatening it and actually bite the bullet and do it.
I always forget at least one, worry about pushing clock’s hands the wrong way, or fiddle endlessly with those little wheels on the backs of electric ones.
And don’t even mention the cars, both different but equally confusing and some years ago I gave up the task and either ignore them or mentally add or subtract if I don’t. One year I was so angry when, a week before a car clock became accurate again, the ‘helpful’ garage changed it when it was in for service causing yet another many months of confusion. 
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Changing the clocks twice a year doesn’t affect me physically or mentally, as far as I’m aware, though I do find it a nuisance having to do so! Does The Guardian’s analysis of Summer Time really matter? My circadian rhythm adjusts overnight, and I carry on living, oblivious to the change in time!
Surely there are other things that affect us physically and mentally every day - things of more consequence?
As for me, it’s time to stop messing about with the clock. Let’s go back to the days when no one messed about with the clock. The First World War is over.
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I never change the clock on the car as well. Too much of a faff. It shows me the date and year as well as the time, so why can’t it change automatically ? Like you, I just automatically adjust.
we’ve several clocks which need winding… but I’ve not touched 'em for a few years now.
Perhaps I’ll wind one of them this weekend. It might be nice to hear some chimes again…
I’d love a mechanical clock to wind up and to hear it chime. I think about it from time to time but never have got around to getting one!
Only got one house clock which is easy to change, as is the one in my Rangey. The awkward one is my watch, a casio something 
but I rarely wear it. Wondering if the new car will do it automatically 
I was raised in households with several clocks, all chiming differently… and loved it.
Each of my chiming clocks came to me… with memories of the family member who used to wind 'em 
Whether or not they tell the time… they each have a story… 
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They do indeed, I have a grandfather clock which was my Grandfather’s. He was married to Grandma in 1910 and it may have been a present.
It hasn’t been going for years to my regret and stopped when Fran and a friend, both in the days when they were alcoholically challenged tried to stop it chiming 4 times an hour. All they had to do was unhook one of the 3 large weights but instead they damaged the pendulum.
Grandpa was Mum’s Dad so I would love to get it going again, but it had a disapproving mind of its own after Mum died, stopping every February in honour of her death and, if you don’t believe that, believe that when my Dad arrived with his new wife the following summer, it stopped again. 
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It does seem pointless to change the clocks in France which is at middle latitudes. In the UK the argument in favour of Summer/Winter time was for the benefit of farmers in Scotland, and children going to school in the dark - it would not get light in Scotland until 10am if the UK maintained permanent Summer Time.
Only in the north I think and a foolish reason anyway, they could have altered the school times 'till later in the day and, in any case, you can’t actually make any extra daylight, wherever you are.
With regard to France, apparently it used to be in the same time zone as GB and was forced to change in 1940 by the Germans insisting on their own time zone. After the Liberation the French couldn’t be arsed to change back.
No idea why Spain, even further west than France, insists while sensible Portugal next door remains with the UK, Ireland. Morocco and other West African states I believe.
Yes, it is at the same longitude - the Greenwich Meridian passes through Paris and naturally the French were very keen for it to be called the “Paris Meridian”, but the International Meridian Conference, held in Washington DC in October 1884, decided that it should be based on Greenwich.
Naturally the French sulked about this for a while: 
Resolution 2, fixing the meridian at Greenwich, was passed 22–1 (San Domingo, now the Dominican Republic), voted against; France and Brazil abstained. The French did not adopt the Greenwich meridian as the beginning of the universal day until 1911. Even then it refused to use the name “Greenwich”, instead using the term “Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds”. France finally replaced this phrase with “Coordinated Universal Time” (UTC) in 1978
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Well, I still call it Greenwich, so there.
The Paris Meridian is at a slightly different longitude though.
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It’s even painted on the roads where it crosses in some places in France.
Just in case you forget where you are. 
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Wasn’t that those brass discs in the floors/pavements/streets etc as shown in The Da Vinci Code?
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I rest my case, M’Lud - it’s French.
i do have some sympathy for France on this topic as French scientists did a heck of a lot of work on measuring the Earth and on cartography etc.
e.g. Jean Picard (no relation to Jean-Luc) who did an accurate calculation of the radius of the Earth.
There were other French pioneers whose names escape me at the moment.
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Insanity has arrived chez moi…
OH has just announced (triumphantly) that he’s put the clocks back one hour (cooker, microwave, bedside clock) 
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Love my wireless clocks both in the UK and France setting and re setting themselves by the radio time signal. Shame they didnt build them into microsaves and central heating programmers (that was one of my next year we’ll be millionaires products) 
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And very near Saumur, too.