You know the type. They’re the ones who roll up to church on Sunday morning to find it empty, because they forgot about the change. Or they turn up for a Zoom meeting an hour early and wonder why their boss is still in a dressing gown. Don’t be that person. Set your clocks forward on Saturday night before you go to sleep. Your phone and your laptop will do it automatically, but your oven clock and your car’s clock? Those are rogue agents. They will lie to you. I once missed a train because my car dashboard insisted it was 7:30 when it was actually 8:30. The train left without me while I sat there, trusting the dashboard like a fool.
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A little story to make you smile
Last year, my nan forgot to change her cooker clock. For three whole weeks, she was cooking her Sunday roast an hour early, which meant she was eating lunch at 11 AM, then sitting around wondering why she was hungry again by 2 PM. She thought she had developed a ravenous new metabolism. When I finally pointed out the error, she just laughed and said, “Well, at least I never burned the potatoes.” That’s the thing about the clock change—it’s a tiny, shared joke we all mess up together.
