Don't forget to switch to British Summer Time tonight, i.e. to wind your chronographs forward at 01.00 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) morning, for UK subjects that are currently at GMT + 0. So that will mean you will have an hour's less kip before getting up to 'watch' the F1 racing at the ungoldly hour of 6 a.m. BST (or 5 a.m. GMT in old money) on Sunday morning, though the race doesn't doesn't kick off until 7.00 BST (and a bit later for Hamilton). The good news is that the days will seem to last longer from now on, which isn't a bad price to pay for a bit less sleep tonight.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostDon't forget to switch to British Summer Time tonight, i.e. to wind your chronographs forward at 01.00 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) morning, for UK subjects that are currently at GMT + 0. So that will mean you will have an hour's less kip before getting up to 'watch' the F1 racing at the ungoldly hour of 6 a.m. BST (or 5 a.m. GMT in old money) on Sunday morning, though the race doesn't doesn't kick off until 7.00 BST (and a bit later for Hamilton). The good news is that the days will seem to last longer from now on, which isn't a bad price to pay for a bit less sleep tonight. -
Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostThe good news is that the days will seem to last longer from now on, which isn't a bad price to pay for a bit less sleep tonight.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View Posta bit like changing the definition of a mile to be longer because the place you have to go every day seems too far away.If you read the best 3 books in any subject, you'll be in the top 5% of experts in the world.Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostDon't forget to switch to British Summer Time tonight, i.e. to wind your chronographs forward at 01.00 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) morning, for UK subjects that are currently at GMT + 0. So that will mean you will have an hour's less kip before getting up to 'watch' the F1 racing at the ungoldly hour of 6 a.m. BST (or 5 a.m. GMT in old money) on Sunday morning, though the race doesn't doesn't kick off until 7.00 BST (and a bit later for Hamilton). The good news is that the days will seem to last longer from now on, which isn't a bad price to pay for a bit less sleep tonight.How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostDon't forget to switch to British Summer Time tonight, i.e. to wind your chronographs forward at 01.00 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) morning, for UK subjects that are currently at GMT + 0.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by norrahe View PostAs long as you don't fall asleep halfway through the grand prix
Originally posted by Zippy View PostDrewster - set yoiur watch back 1000 years.
how can I wind my watch back now!Comment
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I remember reading somewhere of a VCR that had a special button to set the clock back one hour in the autumn, to cater for the change from Daylight Saving Time (or BST, as we call it in the remaining bit of the civilised world). The manufacturers were castigated for not having another button to move it one hour forward in the spring.
Of course, the clock-setting functions already allowed one to move the time forward by one hour, which is why the designers saw no need to provide the inverse of the functionality they had provided to cater for the "special case" of autumn - which was only a special case because one could only advance the time on the clock, not move it back.
(It seems obvious that one should be able to move the clock both forwards and backwards, yet moving a digital clock embedded in a consumer appliance backwards is often not possible; if this is due to a limitation of the underlying hardware, Zeity might be able to explain it.)
The lesson, as I understand it, is that if you provide a user interface for performing a reversible operation in a certain context, you need to provide for the user to reverse that operation in the same context.
By distinguishing the act of setting the clock back one hour for the end of DST, the designers had created an expectation in the users' mental model of the appliance that there would be a way of setting the clock forward at the start of DST. The usual mechanism for setting the clock forward was not part of the user's mental model of how the machine dealt with DST, which was an activity that, due to the incorporation of the special button, appeared to have its own mechanism; and thus the user was confused
(Can anybody tell that I've been re-reading The Design of Everyday Things recently? )Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostDon't forget to switch to British Summer Time tonight, i.e. to wind your chronographs forward at 01.00 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) morning, for UK subjects that are currently at GMT + 0. So that will mean you will have an hour's less kip before getting up to 'watch' the F1 racing at the ungoldly hour of 6 a.m. BST (or 5 a.m. GMT in old money) on Sunday morning, though the race doesn't doesn't kick off until 7.00 BST (and a bit later for Hamilton). The good news is that the days will seem to last longer from now on, which isn't a bad price to pay for a bit less sleep tonight.
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