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Interesting use of language. Is this a transatlantic name for the day in autumn (or fall, as I must learn to say across the Pond) when the clocks are put back one hour?
If it is, it's one of my favourite days, too!
Like Homer Simpson describing the film Speed, we call it 'the day when the clocks go back.'
Supposed to be good for an extra hour of sleep. Of course, it doesn’t work out that way. I just wake up an hour “early”.
It doesn't really have a name here either, Fin. We do use the mnemonic "spring forward, fall back" to remember which way the clocks are moved, though, and informally, people use variations of those phrases when describing the shift -- "time to fall back" is something we say pretty commonly.
Language aside, the US "fell back" today, and the extra sleep was glorious.
We (the UK) 'fell back' last week. As you say, Nomi, what usually happens is you wake up early.
Much more fun is the springtime putting forward of clocks, when people can end up running an hour late on the Sunday without realising it! I remember a G&S rehearsal many years ago that was severely disrupted by this.
Why were we rehearsing on a Sunday? I can't remember why for the life of me.
Of course I detest spring foward as passionately as I love fall back. And I didn't know you were a thespian!
Yep. Though much obstructed.