Anyone know when we make our fall time change???
Ughhh...less light...more cold...are we ready???

Last Saturday night in October. Set the clock back (Fall) one hour.

Sunday October 31 in CH
Sunday November 7th in the US

On Sunday 31st October, 02:59:59 -> 02:00:00
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Damn it, two more weeks. This morning I had to get up and start working out in the dark. It's kind of depressing pumping away on your bike waiting for the sun to come up. You don't realize how motivating the light of day is until its gone.

It really is amazing the amount of things that you can't Google...

I really hope im not working night shift on that day!

I've been told there is a thread, but searching under various combinations of 'summer, fall, october, 2010, time, change, clocks' have all failed to find it.

So if anyone's interested, the date for the change this year is Sunday 31st October. Which is just what I needed - being another hour later whilst trying to get the kids in bed after trick or treating the very night before they go back to school.

kodokan

Mods, do please merge if you can track down the other thread.

Another hour later? Spring forward, fall back ... you put the kids to bed at the usual time and they (and you) get an extra hour's sleep when the clocks change in the wee hours. (For avoidance of confusion, the clocks change early on Sunday morning 31 October -- i.e. Saturday night).

Okay, thank mods - bit cryptic for the Brits, you see.

So do you get paid double for working the same hour twice or is the second time around gratis?

Englishforum is not Google but Google is...

I'm guessing the extra hour is pro bono, just as you were paid for that hour you didn't work in spring.

Mine don't sleep in an extra hour - they'll just be up at the new 6am instead of the old 7am. And it's Sunday night that's the kicker. They usually go to bed around 8pm, which will be the old 9pm. Plus they'll be Halloween hyped.

They're old enough to tell the time, but I think if I just don't change the clocks, I might get away with it...

kodokan

So if she wasn't on nights in March, she's screwed.

The simplest way is to google "Time (placename)", e.g. Time Basel. The first hit is nearly always for timeanddate.com, which gives you the precise current time along with all the useful summer time info and a few more tidbits as well ... all in English.

I know, and that works fine for that individual (if they're German-speaking), but I just thought it might be helpful to have a thread for all the people who'd either forgotten or don't even come from a country where the clocks change.

(And if this thread had a factual title as well as a pun or used tags, I would have found it on my search that I did to check before starting a new thread. And if the mod who told me there was a thread for 2010 had actually pointed me to it, that would have perhaps been helpful given the lack of searchable data.)

<Mutter, mutter... 'last time I try to do a public service...'>

Pah - just grumpy about the sugar-and-tiredness fest ahead. On the plus side, look: the thread's back on the front page! My work here is done.

kodokan

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Sure, but I guess it might be useful to know at least SOME words pertaining to your immediate surroundings in one of the national languages. So here goes - Zeitumstellung is the magic word.

At a risk of being sent off to Google again, does anyone know the equivalent in French?

Works just as well in English:

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=daylight+sa...me+switzerland

And here's the French translation (heure d'hiver):

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Heure+d%27hiver+suisse