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    GMT, not me mate!

    I am refusing to change any of my clocks (at least for a week as an experiment). This morning I got to work an hour earlier without feeling like I did. Lunch at 11am (GMT)though.
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    Re: GMT, not me mate!

    Quote Originally Posted by YEN_POWELL View Post
    I am refusing to change any of my clocks (at least for a week as an experiment). This morning I got to work an hour earlier without feeling like I did. Lunch at 11am (GMT)though.
    My Nokia mobile phone automatically reset itself to GMT. BUT - and it is a big but - it also automatically reset the alarm for an hour earlier, so I was up at 6 this morning.
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    Re: GMT, not me mate!

    Yeah, apart from the supposed extra hour, I hate this time of year. When I was riding to the Museum I used to get back to Portsmouth as the sun was setting just before the clocks went back, but when we hit GMT again most of the journey was in the dark. The morning journey was too early (4.45 - 6.00 am) for the extra light to make a difference. The drivers also seem to take time to adjust to driving in the dark so suddenly, and most of my knock-offs used to happen shortly after the clocks changed (filtering AT headlights are impossible to spot against a sea of other headlights in the rear view mirrors), so I think this sudden change is pretty dangerous. A noisy exhaust helps a great deal. Leaving your clocks probably won't help this problem Yen...

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    Re: GMT, not me mate!

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Stig View Post
    Leaving your clocks probably won't help this problem Yen...

    I am VERY glad I take the train these days.
    It will when I go home an hour early . I'm lucky in that I can pretty much set my own start, finish and lunch times as long as I get the work done.
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    Clocks ???.......Time ????.......
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    Re: GMT, not me mate!

    Quote Originally Posted by Cabby View Post
    Clocks ???.......Time ????.......
    So you don't charge more after midnight??

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    Re: GMT, not me mate!

    Quote Originally Posted by Cabby View Post
    Clocks ???.......Time ????.......



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    Re: GMT, not me mate!

    Quote Originally Posted by Mabel's Old Man View Post
    WORK????? eeuw

    Is that the time already ?????
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    Re: GMT, not me mate!

    Quote Originally Posted by Mudwiz View Post
    So you don't charge more after midnight??
    Meter does it automatically...(after 10pm)...
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    Re: GMT, not me mate!

    Quote Originally Posted by YEN_POWELL View Post
    It will when I go home an hour early . I'm lucky in that I can pretty much set my own start, finish and lunch times as long as I get the work done.
    I'm like that. Trouble is I am currently starting ealry and finishing late. I was on a course all weekend too (the net result of which will be making the first xrv podcast next time we all meet up )
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