Clocks forward Summer Time - Sunday / Monday

tonykyte


Joined: 19/04/2008
Posts: 270

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 11:04

Watch out tomorrow TRNC & Turkey are not moving the clocks forward until 3am Monday morning, so we will only be 1 HOUR ahead of the UK on Sunday. This is because students are sitting their Transition to Higher Education exam and they do not want the students' chances to effected by the time change.

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 11:11

Thanks for that Tony

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 11:30

It's not April 1st is it?



How will this benefit Student unless they are sitting exams on Sunday.... are they?

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 11:40

They are Students Gavin...Probably P..ss...d on Sat, So Exam is Sun....

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 12:13

From Air Travel this weekend 26/27 March 2011 and time changes

Please go to message 122 on http://www.cyprus44.com/forums/39106.asp This applies to anyone who is flying or may be meeting someone who is flying this weekend - If unsure if it will affect you CALL your airline and be safe as even insurance will not cover your not being informed and missing a flight.

This is complex as you will see if you go the Pegasus notification sent to agents and if flying check with your airline

Tom

info@flightholiday.co.uk

ClaireCat44



Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 739

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 14:24

Students will be sitting the YGS exam (part of the university entrance exam) on Sunday 27 March this year. Therefore the clocks will be moved forward on the Sunday/Monday night in Turkey and TRNC. (Too bad for those who have to get up at 6am to go to work on Monday morning!!)

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 14:57

So not possible to change the time of the exam? No! lets make Turkey and TRNC out of step with the rest of Europe... the little monkeys.

LAhotel


Joined: 21/05/2010
Posts: 107

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 15:04

So I still get my lay-in on Sunday but have to get up an hour early for work on Monday! Might forget that one and use it as an excuse to be late!!

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 15:48

Jane Msg 8 - You have just told the boss who is looking in on Cyprus44 so you can't get away with that one!

geronimo


Joined: 30/08/2009
Posts: 296

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 16:29

Msg 8 surely if the clocks are going FORWARD you WILL get your lie in!!

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 16:53

Doh! Geronimo... if the clocks go forward you lose an hour... keep up!

geronimo


Joined: 30/08/2009
Posts: 296

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 17:17

Ooops in holiday mood!!

susief


Joined: 06/11/2008
Posts: 529

Message Posted:
25/03/2011 17:51

Does that mean that if you cross to the South on Sunday you'll actually be able to time travel

ClaireCat44



Joined: 17/09/2008
Posts: 739

Message Posted:
26/03/2011 13:56

Exactly! And if you are flying from Larnaca and think this is a joke, then your plane will have gone without you!! It will be bedlam tomorrow. It is absolutely ridiculous. Why couldn't they just have moved the exam from 9am to 11am?? Thank god I don't have to get up at 6am (will be 5am) to go to work on Monday morning. It's my day off!

Snaefell



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 266

Message Posted:
26/03/2011 14:34

It probably never occurred to them to change the time of the exam instead!

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
26/03/2011 15:54

To the point - for flights etc the flying times may well be different so take no chances

Remember from Msg 1 - TRNC & Turkey are not moving the clocks forward until 3am Monday morning, so we will only be 1 HOUR ahead of the UK on Sunday.

From Msg 5 maybe look in at http://www.cyprus44.com/forums/59142.asp and it's link to the flights thread

mark&beck



Joined: 08/01/2009
Posts: 303

Message Posted:
26/03/2011 16:50

What a logical move by the TRNC & Turkey ...pure class!

Pippie


Joined: 02/12/2009
Posts: 1288

Message Posted:
26/03/2011 18:36

Exams are usually planned up to a year ahead, granted the person setting the exams should have a list of issues that may cause problems. However, in my experience, the only things that can be allowed to affect a move of exam time and/or date can be relgious holidays and festivals, too many students with exam clashes when others are happening at the same time, or closer to the time of the exam, a disaster!

Carndi


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 613

Message Posted:
26/03/2011 20:29

I never know what the time, day, month or year it is anyhow since I retired and came here so will just continue to carry on in ignorance.

Life is good.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
26/03/2011 20:33

Well the ROC have one up on us know a whole hour ahead for a day x

birdman



Joined: 20/09/2010
Posts: 690

Message Posted:
26/03/2011 22:11

Yes Liili. I've arranged to meet friends at the Metahan crossing point at 1130 am. I'll have to be there at 1030, so they will have an extra hour in the TRNC as they are visiting for the day only!!! LOL

mikelapta



Joined: 20/11/2008
Posts: 2186

Message Posted:
27/03/2011 07:47

My computer automatically changed last night,so here I am at 0630 ot is it 0730 ???

Last year it was over a week before somebody told me the clocks had changed.

"sonra,yarim"

Mike

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
27/03/2011 09:18

Me too my computer says 09.18 what now?

mrperfect


Joined: 18/01/2010
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
27/03/2011 09:52

Just think how the boys on the green line feel!

2bfrank


Joined: 27/03/2011
Posts: 10

Message Posted:
27/03/2011 09:54

totally confused what time is it now ?

mikelapta



Joined: 20/11/2008
Posts: 2186

Message Posted:
27/03/2011 10:04

I think it's March most of this week

metin


Joined: 08/09/2008
Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
27/03/2011 18:37

Sent my husband off to work an hour early !!!! Whoops.

Lol

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
27/03/2011 18:56

my body tells me one time and the computor another. I am so confused. I think I will go with the computor time so I will be ready for tomorrow xxx

Hoylemiller



Joined: 03/09/2010
Posts: 240

Message Posted:
27/03/2011 19:20

Any one flying out Check the flight times correspond with the change of hour.



I missed a flight last year from Alex to Dubai with Emirates scheduled departure said 14.15 only to find check-in closed. Around 50 people missed the flight. Our ticket said dept 14.15 the airline forgot to take in the 1 hr. change.

Worked out well in the end, got an extra days hol. and Emirates compensated with a free business class flight anywhere.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
27/03/2011 19:38

The odd thing is/was that my computer clock, set to Istanbul time, reset itself to summer saving early this morning. Did Turkey forget to inform Microsoft?

As to the excuse it was for students to sit a Sunday exam is beyond belief. How does an extra or lost hour going to improve their results after years of study?

There's something sinister afoot! It must be 'No Time Toulouse' and leave for France!



Richard

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
28/03/2011 00:42

If there wasn't enough stupid people in this world,there'd be no need to change the time at all.

It has been done this way to stop confusion to 1000.000+ students that are taking the test.





It seems that common sense is not so common here!!

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
28/03/2011 00:49

Funny thing if they had had the test on Monday at school all would have worked out RIGHT



well Turkcell be putting the phones 1 hour ahead at mid-night or are we to do this ourselves ? My laptop has been driving me crazy all day with the wrong or right time on it..AHHHH







Spider,X

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
28/03/2011 00:52

If someone taking an exam

cannot fathom the clocks changing

I worry for their future employers

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
28/03/2011 01:02

I wonder whether the cows that need milking will alter the time schedule for emptying their udder or the cockerels will delay their early morning screeching! Has anyone informed them?!



Richard

lovinit


Joined: 20/06/2008
Posts: 745

Message Posted:
28/03/2011 08:12

God help us all if the Turkish kids here and mainland are not capable of adjusting to a one hour time difference. Financial whiz kids/Turkish leaders’ and future entrepreneurs this is what the youth of today could be. But they cannot sort out spring forward one hour........... errrrrrrrrrrrr

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
28/03/2011 08:36

Makes no difference to me. I cannot remember what indicates the hour, the big hand, or the little hand !

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
28/03/2011 13:19

Whats the moan of the day subject today?