To paraphrase Rodney King

Never mind the loss of an hour, what about our eleven days? The Gregorian calendar is today’s international calendar, named after the man who first introduced it in February 1582, Pope Gregory XIII. Its introduction was not straightforward. It meant that the year 1751 was a short year, lasting just 282 days from 25th March (New Year in the Julian calendar) to 31st December. The year 1752 then began on 1 January.

Before 1752, Britain and her Empire followed the Julian calendar, first implemented by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. However this calendar had an inbuilt error of 1 day every 128 years, due to a miscalculation of the solar year by 11 minutes. This affected the date of Easter, traditionally observed on March 21, as it began to move further away from the spring equinox with each passing year.

To get over this problem, the Gregorian calendar was introduced. This is a solar calendar, based on a 365-day year divided into 12 months. Each month consists of either 30 or 31 days with one month, February, consisting of 28 days. A leap year every 4 years adds an extra day to February making it 29 days long.

First to adopt the new calendar in 1582 were France, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. Turkey was the last country to officially switch to the new system on January 1st, 1927. The Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 introduced the Gregorian calendar to the British Empire, bringing Britain into line with most of Western Europe.
 

Changing the analogue clocks and watches isn’t too bad, but some of the digital ones are terrible to change, and what you push, where it’s located, and the sequence it must be done in vary from one manufacturer to another. Changing the clock display in my one Japanese car is especially fun as you must find the right screen on the dash display, press the right tab on the steering column to set the desired numeral flashing, then quickly find and press another steering column tab one direction to advance and another to set back, all before the flashing digits kick themselves off.- -Aargh! 😩
 
I’m ok either way.
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When told the reason for daylight savings time the Old Indian said, "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."
 
Fyrefox said:
Changing the analogue clocks and watches isn’t too bad, but some of the digital ones are terrible to change, and what you push, where it’s located, and the sequence it must be done in vary from one manufacturer to another. Changing the clock display in my one Japanese car is especially fun as you must find the right screen on the dash display, press the right tab on the steering column to set the desired numeral flashing, then quickly find and press another steering column tab one direction to advance and another to set back, all before the flashing digits kick themselves off.- -Aargh! 😩
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I feel your pain, and I know where it is.
 
Fyrefox said:
Changing the analogue clocks and watches isn’t too bad, but some of the digital ones are terrible to change, and what you push, where it’s located, and the sequence it must be done in vary from one manufacturer to another. Changing the clock display in my one Japanese car is especially fun as you must find the right screen on the dash display, press the right tab on the steering column to set the desired numeral flashing, then quickly find and press another steering column tab one direction to advance and another to set back, all before the flashing digits kick themselves off.- -Aargh! 😩
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We got car last spring after the 'spring forward', you've reminded me i'll have to check when take daughter to work to see if i have to manually or not. It's a fairly recent model and just may get auto reset. Love some of the features like actually showing what door is open if one is and actually showing tire pressure for each tire.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Can't we all just learn to get along...with the clock? Please let's just leave the darned thing alone and always observe "real" time.
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GeorgiaXplant, I totally agree with you. It's not just wasting "time" resetting microwave clocks, It takes a while to readjust my sleeping habits. I'm cranky , and miserable,
My solution is to get rid of the clock resetting for an hour every six months, and add 30 minutes to Standard Time, and then forget about it forever.
 
All I know is that I couldn't sleep much last night and am one cranky gal. lol Hubby changed all the clocks last night.
 

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