Across the UK everybody has had an hour extra overnight. That is because at 2.00 am British Summer Time the UK moved its clocks back an hour to 1.00 am Greenwich Mean Time.
I thank it means that the entire population will have either (a) had extra time in bed or (b) got up earlier than they needed to or (c) had to work an extra hour, because the world does not stop spinning.
For me it was (b).
There could be a fourth option in that some could have forgotten (or didn't know) about the change. If that is the case, the individuals concerned will find out soon enough and then presumably suffer a weird feeling of instant jet-lag.
There have been debates, as there always are, about whether the clocks should continue to go forward in the early hours of the last Sunday March, and back again in the early hours of the last Sunday in October. One such debate is the ongoing argument for Scotland to move to its own 'Tundra Time' with the rest of the UK moving to European Time.
Personally, I like getting up for a little while with some daylight - the evenings don't mean much to me at this time of year. My vote (not that we have one) is for keeping things as they are and to keep the existing programme of twice yearly clock changes.
Just a little point of further confusion - 'Daylight Saving Time' does not finish in the the USA and Canada until next weekend.
Hopefully the debate is now over, at least until the clocks go forward again on 29 March 2010.
Make the most of your day - it's light out there! Rural Buckinghamshire beckons to me- by the time I get back home late this afternoon, it will be pitch black, so I am going to make the most of it.
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I've always thought it'd be a good idea for the UK to move to continental time. However, until yesterday I was in the south of Spain and had to get an 11am flight. Leaving plenty of time, I was up at 7am and left at 8am to go the hour's drive to the airport.
At 8am, I'm not even joking, it was still absolutely pitch black. While obviously this rebounds in the evening with it being lighter later, it was almost bizarre how dark it was for so late. If it means children going to school in the pitch black, I"m certainly against changing our current system...
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