Time Gentlemen Please...and ladies, cats, dogs, children

World Time = Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - Current Time in every Time Zone...

Summer is over for another year :-( In just half an hour, the official end of "British Summer Time" will be with us, and good old Greenwich Mean Time returns to the fore until next March. While it will be good to wake up and find it light earlier for a while, I hardly relish the darkness which will fall as of today from around 4.30 in the afternoon. Suddenly, we're plunged into winter.

I retain some of the fascination I have always had with the clock changeover, and this site which my brother pointed me to includes some fascinating detail about it. If YOU forgot, and you are in the UK, USA or Europe, don't forget: SPRING forward, FALL (i.e Autumn) back. On the other hand, if by chance you are one of those lucky souls basking in the sun in Oz or NZ- welcome to Summer! However, whether I will bother waiting up another half hour to see what Brian Gobby says on the Accurist Timeline, or watch the Ceefax timecheck change, or hear announcers on the air get dreadfully confused, I don't know. It's time for bed!

On the other hand, at least it makes life easier for DXers and international listening enthusiasts alike. But catch me calling it UTC? Never! The current changeover dates for Summer and Winter times may be fixed by EU directives, but this is one British legacy we can be proud of. At least the World Service recognises that and has not yielded to the tendency to talk about Universal time. Dreadful, and not even true. So what is the time zone on the moon, or Jupiter, or Saturn, pray?

Which, this being Sunday, is what I shall be doing later and why I have returned to Eastbourne from the bosom of the family in Feltham after a frustrating afternoon not being able to sort the car out. It seems I may have a problem with the fuel injection system, which is what I suspected anyway when the car suddenly gave up on me on the M25 last Monday. Mercifully, I was able to get over to the hard shoulder safely and waited for the AA, but he could not really offer much help, especially when he found the sump emtpy. At least the engine seems OK, but it's another expense I could do without right now-even if some other generous benefactor pays it!

Let us pray that the winter ahead, will be a time when the message of peace in our homes and families might be more widely applied. It's probably a vain hope, but where there is no hope there is no point!