I just realised that the clocks went back an hour last night, so it's earlier than I realised.

Haha, yep. Hour's extra sleep, which you then missed I suppose.
We never go back to GMT, closest we get is GMT+1
Funny in a way, considering we're that close to the UK.

It's an odd thing to do, changing the time by an hour twice a year. Naturally, I dislike the Spring change more when they put the clocks forward by an hour. It was introduced during the 1939-1945 war with Germany to help with farming I think but typically since then, they keep debating scrapping it but never do.

Last few years there's a lot of talk about scrapping it. I'm not for that. I don't like the summer time shift much either, losing an hour's sleep. Always takes me over a week to adjust, even though I don't have to get up early for work.
But somehow more daylight is nice. And in the UK that'd be nice too I imagine? I remember being in the UK during wintertime, I think it was early December, and you already lost the light around 3? It was still light of course, but already beginning to fade. I had not expected that. At least you don't have that during summer time.

Maybe I'm dim, but I don't see what difference it makes for farming? People in the old days farmed too, without summer time.
I'm gonna Google who came up with the concept. Did it have to do with Deutsche grundlichkeit?

Ah, indeed to Germans, to use less coal.

Yes, I thought it had something to do with saving resources but I couldn't quite remember what it was for exactly. You're quite right about the ridiculously short days here in Winter. At its worst, it's something like six hours of daylight, from about nine in morning until three in the afternoon. Ugh. Still, I suppose it could be worse, Imagine being somewhere like Northern Norway or Finland.

I believe around war time it was a two hour shift

Yes, you're right, wasn't it called "Double British Summertime"?

November 3 they go backwards in the States ;-)

Yes, isn't it called "Daylight Saving Time"? Still seems a bit of an odd thing to do though.

In the UK it also provides more light in the mornings for children going to school, they can be seen more easily by drivers, so there is the road safety aspect as well. In late December it's turning dark here by 4.00 pm and light at 9.00 am approximately, very short days in Winter, we all hibernate don't see neighbours until Easter .

They tried changing the clocks by 1 hour in Western Australia some years ago, to extend daylight in the summer evenings, but whatever the reasons were it was voted down by the general public after I think a a 2 year trial and it ended, much to my daughter's disappointment.

Yes, you lag behind a little less now, won't be for long though, hihi.
It was always doing math before going on Skype when my girl was still in the US around the changes of time as you don't do it simultaneously. Both fumbling to make sure we'd be online at the same time, haha.

YEs, they mentioned the children thing in the news here too. And there sure is something to say about that, although the advantage doesn't last very long.
My kids went by buss during winter, for that reason. I did too in the past.

It is a bit odd, as we're only an hour ahead and we do have shorter days of course in winter, but not as bad as in the UK. I think at its worst it's dark at half 4, and I think we have daylight a little earlier too.
Now not entirely sure about that one as I'm in bed still at that time, haha.

me too, more often as not. I tend to hibernate more in Winter.

Yes, and I'm never an early bird. I go to bed a little later and get up later too. That way I feel best, both physically and emotionally.

Same here. Even these days at 58, I rarely get to bed before midnight or get up before ten in the morning unless I have to.

Arizona doesn't do daylight saving time.

Daylight saving time 2019 in Mississippi began at 2:00 AM on
Sunday, March 10
and ends at 2:00 AM on
Sunday, November 3
All times are in Central Time.

Same for me :) I take it you don't work either then?