Monday 29 March, 2004
Good timing
Looks like I'm the master of good timings.
I have thought for a while now that once all the stress at work is over, I'll move my schedule forward an hour - start coming to work for eight and leave around four. So I thought this week would be good as Mikki will be visiting and it would be nice to leave early for those days I am working. What I forgot was that of course this is the weekend when the clocks go forward - so waking up at six o'clock this morning was actually equal to waking up at five. I just thought I had slept badly when it was exceptionally difficult to wake up... and only realised why when boys at work were commenting that I must have forgotten to turn my clock because I was turning up to work an hour early.
(And if you have trouble remembering when clocks go forward and when they go back - I was just taught this phrase: "spring forward, fall back" - I thought it was great.)
Posted by kolibri at 29 March 09:00, 2004A mnemonic that works in any language is that the clocks are turned "towards the summer" - when the summer is ahead in the spring, you turn the clock forward, when it's behind in the fall, you turn the clock back.
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