I think about this comic twice a year (Stephen Collins)

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1. Time zones are stupid, why can’t everyone just use GMT?

2. When that paper sign drops off on pic1

   It says underneath,

   “**THE ASYLUM**”

3. Tbh. I know it’s “spring forward, and fall back” but I still struggle with which the ‘bad’ one is. I’m so bad with numbers it’s unreal.

   It’s simple logic… The clocks go forward, so when 1am will be 2am. But I have a bad habit of overthinking everything so twice a year I end up asking “so do I get an hour more, or an hour less or sleep?”

   I think it’s just the respective annotations with ‘forward’ and ‘backward’ lol as good and bad, when in reality it’s the opposite. Oh well. See you in October!

4. Try living on Guam. It’s on the other side of the international date line.
   Every time I flew back I was either a day late or a day early

5. The only thing complicated about changing the clocks is not longer an issue.

   If you in the past you wanted to set a VCR timer for after the change, what times should you set it for, if you don’t know if the VCR clock changes automatically?

   I remember many a lengthy discussion about this twice a year in the 90s.

6. A few years ago my mum said she had never heard of daylight savings. My family are all British and we’ve always turned the clocks forward and back so idk what’s going on

7. I tried to move the photo forward but there was only 3.

8. That’s brilliant.

   But seriously: ~~Daylight Savings Time~~ the clock change for summer time needs to just go away.

9. I get an hour less Mothers Day today but a hour more of birthday in October. My car clock is now correct.

10. Dont think of it as a clock.Think of it as time travel. If you fall back in time an hour, then you get an extra hour in bed. It you spring forward an hour, then you’re missing an hour in bed.

11. It’s been proven by scientists to be bad for people’s health. We should just stay on summertime the whole year round. Let people travel home from work in the sunlight!

12. Give us our eleven days! ‘ The English calendar riots of 1752. The eleven days referred to here are the ‘lost’ 11 days of September 1752, skipped when Britain changed over from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, bringing us into line with most of Europe.

    Nothing much has changed then- ironically.

13. this is bonkers!

14. I have absolutely no idea why we still need to change the clocks. I’ve been told it’s so farmers can get more work done in the daylight in the winter, but I call bullshit on that because you see them work night and day with their tractors and their high-beams now. So what’s the deal?

15. Me and the lads I work with decided to do things differently.
    In Autumn, we take the extra hour in bed.
    In spring, we change our clocks at 11:00am, so then it’s lunchtime.

16. Try Australia where half the country believes and half doesn’t.

    Tweed Head/Coolongata you go back an hour if you cross the wrong street.

17. Damn farmers in the highlands, giving the rest of the UK seasonal depression with their refusal to let double British summer time get implemented. Why does the time on the clock even matter to them? Just get up when you need to tend the sheep.

18. This autumn, can’t we just wind the clocks back half an hour and leave it like that?

19. For the next few weeks, I’ll be “but really it’s..”

20. It’s so stupid. And surely it’s pointless. Why do we do it?

21. Doesn’t everyone’s devices switch automatically these days?

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