Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Drago]

I like the winter, the cold and the ice, but it is dragging on and I've got into gardening this last year so BST and nicer weather will be welcome.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The clocks go forward an hour a week on Sunday.

The clocks go forward an hour Sunday week.

The clocks go forward an hour a week this coming Sunday.

The clocks go forward an hour a week tomorrow.


Which version is the most baffling but still correct? I like the last one.

Some appropriate punctuation would help 🤫. Your examples are like those everyone learnt at school, with multiple interpretations, due to missing punctuation.

 

[winjim]

Some appropriate punctuation would help 🤫. Your examples are like those everyone learnt at school, with multiple interpretations, due to missing punctuation.

I'm not sure where you'd put the punctuation though. You could write that the clocks go forward by an hour on the last Sunday of the month, but you wouldn't write on Sunday week or on a week on Sunday.

So you'd still get '...by an hour a week tomorrow' but a comma between 'an hour' and 'a week' seems wrong to me.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'm not sure where you'd put the punctuation though. You could write that the clocks go forward by an hour on the last Sunday of the month, but you wouldn't write on Sunday week or on a week on Sunday.

So you'd still get '...by an hour a week tomorrow' but a comma between 'an hour' and 'a week' seems wrong to me.

That’s not punctuation, just using different words. You know a , or ; or : etc.

 

[winjim]

That’s not punctuation, just using different words. You know a , or ; or : etc.

So where would you put the punctuation without rewriting the sentence?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

So where would you put the punctuation without rewriting the sentence?

I’ll leave that, as an exercise for you.

 

[Alex321]

So where would you put the punctuation without rewriting the sentence?

I'd put a comma after the word hour in each case. Otherwise you are relying on people knowing the context for any except possibly the second.

 

[Cathryn]

My opinion is: The clocks go forward, a week on Sunday!

Because realistically you’d change the order of the sentence and start with the fronted adverbial!

A week on Sunday, the clocks forward.

 

[DaveReading]

My opinion is: The clocks go forward, a week on Sunday!

Because realistically you’d change the order of the sentence and start with the fronted adverbial!

A week on Sunday, the clocks forward.

Which is pretty well what Accy originally said. Wasn't so confusing after all, it turns out ...

 

[Accy cyclist]

All the debate about how I worded it, but no one's yet explained why GMT goes 7 months forward and 5 months back, instead of an equal 6 months for both.

 

[Cathryn]

All the debate about how I worded it, but no one's yet explained why GMT goes 7 months forward and 5 months back, instead of an equal 6 months for both.

But thank goodness it does, so we aren’t plunged into darkness for longer!

 

[Tenkaykev]

23 degree axial tilt. 🌎

 

[DaveReading]

But thank goodness it does, so we aren’t plunged into darkness for longer!

How does moving the hands on a clock affect the amount of darkness ?

 

[Dave7]

How does moving the hands on a clock affect the amount of darkness ?

It didn't used to but since we went digital it does.
Have you noticed that sometimes you wake up feeling bright and chirpy while other days you feel crap??....... thats digital time for you.

 

[FishFright]

It's the 'coming' bit which adds confusion. Too much information to process. I'd say 'a week on Sunday' or maybe even 'Sunday week'.

I was hoping it was a new bank holiday .