Clock going forward

So why is it that it takes a couple days after the clocks going forward, and loosing that hour of sleep, for me to have trouble getting up. This morning it was dark outside, and when the alarm went off I was so close to turning it off and going back to sleep. I was fine On Sunday and Monday mornings.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

I have never noticed this "lost" or "gained" hour.

Unless having to wake early so needing to set the alarm clock for Sunday morning I let myself sleep naturally, whether I re-set the clocks on Saturday or Sunday. So I still sleep for the same number of hours as I would have done anyway.

One myth I saw in print was "longer daylight". Rubbish! The hours of light and dark between sunrise and sunset do not change simply by our calling noon, one-o'-clock. All that happens is we adapt our lives to make a marginal difference to how we use the same length of light available.

I wish we could stick with GMT (or UTC as it's called now) and be done with it.

Rickichickie · 56-60, F

@ArishMell I wish they all could agree on a time, no matter which one.

workinghard · 51-55, M

@Rickichickie That would be far to sensible

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Rickichickie Well, that is the nub of the problem, and the higher your latitude the worse it is!

AdaXI · T

@ArishMell

longer daylight

Haha yeah I saw BBC news saying that one the other day like there's some kind of magic involved winding the clocks forward, lolz!😅
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ArishMell · 70-79, M

@AdaXI LOL! I'd picked up on the daft comments in my local paper.

Let's be grateful we don't live in the days when they were trying to set the calendar to account for that odd quarter-day in the Earth's orbit. They'd twigged eventually why the calendar was slipping out of phase with the astronomical year, but then had all sorts of problems trying to correct it, with the accusation flying around of "shortening" everyone's lives.