I alter all the clocks the evening before they officially change, and go to bed an hour early that night. (or an hour later, in autumn.) It still takes days or weeks for my body clock to fully adjust afterwards, but it makes the first morning a bit less unpleasant.
Today I feel just awful. My alarm obviously went off an hour earlier and i went into shutdown. This afternoon I feel really unsettled and unsafe. I hate these clock changes. I increasingly worry the days leading up to it every 6 months it upsets me. This change is the worst though.
Having decided to find a way to look forward to more easily utilise the lighter evenings this year; I bought an inexpensive, small, 2 seater garden bench plus a little outdoor coffee table to set to one side (to put by the house, so you can sit there of an evening - to enjoy the view of the setting sun).
The bench and table were delivered this week, so tomorrow's good weather forecast will see me self-assembling them and then putting in place - ready to enjoy Sunday evening's additional hour of daylight.
I have already tested the place which I have in mind - with a folding deck chair (to see if it is a suitably sheltered / too breezy a location in the evenings).The bench and table can be left in place outdoors (so I will no longer have to keep taking the deck chair up and down the front steps - in / out of the house).
I have already tested the place which I have in mind - with a folding deck chair (to see if it is a suitably sheltered / too breezy a location in the evenings).
These last few years I have changed the non automatic changing clocks on the morning before the official change time. I intentionally look at these clocks throughout the day and contemplate the time. It seems to ease me into the new rhythm. Of course, this mightn’t work so well if you have a schedule of events that involve other people.
Unless you plan on being awake at 1am on Sunday, I find it best to just carry on as normal & wake up as nature intended. As you note, smartphones click forward one hour, and you can change time on anything else the next day.
It is funny you mention headaches. I seem to remember headaches as we went from GMT to BST but not for a long time - possibly I don't look at it as an issue anymore.
