America Turns Its Clocks Back Tonight, a Full Week After Perth; City Offers Advice on What to Do With the Extra Hour (Lie In, Then Complain About It)
US daylight saving time ends on Sunday. Perth, a week ahead, has some lessons to share.
A clock: Americans will be adjusting theirs tonight. Perth adjusted last week and is still slightly confused. Photo: Godot13, “Czech-2013-Prague-Astronomical clock face”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The United States puts its clocks back an hour today, a week after Britain did, and Perth has some advice from experience.
“First, you’ll feel great,” said a Bridgend woman. “An extra hour in bed. Then on Monday, it’ll be dark at five and you’ll feel like you’re living in a cave. That lasts until March. Enjoy the hour.”
A Scone man said the most important lesson is that the oven clock will never be changed. “Ours has been an hour out since 2011,” he said. “We just do the maths. It’s good for the brain.”
Perth also wanted to warn America about the week in between, when the clocks in the UK and US are only four hours apart on the east coast instead of five. “My cousin in Boston phoned me at what she thought was teatime,” said a woman from Craigie. “It was actually teatime. It was very confusing for both of us.”
The Perthetic’s time correspondent says the extra hour should be used wisely. Most of Perth used theirs to watch a programme they’d already seen.
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Tell them to enjoy the extra hour. Ours lasted about ten minutes before the cat wanted fed.
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I changed mine a week early by mistake. So I’ve been on American time since last Sunday. Nobody noticed.
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