Daylight Saving Has Started - HUMBUG

[crowie]

Daylight Saving Has Started and I still don't like it.
Used to be a 6am starter then with good light into the evening, one end up burning the candle at both ends.
My son-in-law starts at 3am and it's worse for him.
Plus our daughter will again have trouble getting the grandkids to bed on time.
I have a mate who lives in Tweed Heads but works out of Brisbane with a 5am start;
I don't know how the Tweed coast people cope living in two time zones.
I think Queensland, NT & WA have got it right - NO DAYLIGHT SAVING.

[wheelinround]

More shed time if this rain stops :~

[Ruddy]

...but it fades the curtains

[Ironwood]

I think it's great, I dont know what you's are compaining about :D

[Bob38S]

Bring it on.

If the government was really serious about energy conservation then this would be a no brainer.

Don't really follow the "problem" of kids not being able to go to sleep because it is still light - try being in some of the countries where you can still read the paper at 11.00pm on the verandah without a light [did so in Norway] - if at anytime you wanted to sleep and thought the light could be a problem - you pulled the curtains.

Don't wish to start a brawl as it has all been said and done before - just a comment.

[jimbur]

That explains it - I thoought I'd slept in!:D

[bonox]

you'd be about retired wouldn't you crowie? And do 3am starts matter anyway? it's dark daylight savings or not.

guess you can't keep everyone happy all the time eh!

[Geoff Dean]

I have just installed a 3.4 Kw solar electricity system. The extra hour of sunlight will help to pay the system of quicker.

:D

[Lizard]

Gives me more real time in the workshop after being trapped in the office

[corbs]

Personally I love it and hated living in both Qld & WA without it. Better than trying to keep the kids in bed at 4 in the morning when the suns up and they're ready to play because the suns up:)

[Waldo]

I hate it.

And it always takes me about 3-4 days to get my body clock sorted out. With 2 kids, 5 and 3, tea is the same time as always, 5:30, then it's the bath etc. routine so any extra daylight I don't get to see.

Besides, it's the same hours in the day except some :grumble: has fudged things with Father Time and moved the goal posts. Just wake up earlier if you want an extra hour :shrug:

[whitewood]

I'd like so second Crowies concerns. I live in the Tweed Coast area just 10 klms from the border. The next 6 months will be painful in many ways. Most of our family live in Queensland and of course use Qld. time to keep in contact. Specialists have their rooms in Qld. and give you a Qld. appointment at say 3.30 PM - 4.30 PM DST. You get out at 5.30 DST and don't get home until 6.30 PM NSW time. Not ideal. Qld visitors still want to keep their watches on Qld. time and want to eat late. We get both Qld. and NSW TV channels and while this can be worked to an advantage it complicates scheduling.

If we didn't live in 2 time zones daylight saving would be OK.

Whitewood

[Rattrap]

I love daylight saving! :2tsup::2tsup::2tsup::2tsup::2tsup:
So glad its here again!
Time in the shed after tea, priceless!

[jimbur]

Slightly off topic but it would be interesting to know how many blokes were late for work this morning - because of daylight saving and not because of the football and blaming it on daylight saving:U
Cheers,
Jim

[Geoff Dean]

I Love it. I work from 6.00am - 1.30pm. Home at 2.00pm.

Mid summer that gives me around 6 hrs of daylight to do outside things.

My only beef is that it would be better to have it during winter and not summer. That way we could have a bit more daylight at the end of the day.

[Waldo]

My only beef is that it would be better to have it during winter and not summer. That way we could have a bit more daylight at the end of the day.

Exzacerly, and that has always had me thinking it's been ballsed up for the wrong part of the year.

[damian]

This has been done to death and I'm not interested in having a blue with anyone. I will just point out a couple of reasons daylight savings are tremendously inconvenient for some people. Jokes aside:

In queensland in summer it is not uncommon for the temperature to remain high well into the night. If you put the kids to bed effectively an hour ealier they can't sleep and when it's time to rouse them effectively an hour earlier they are a mess, cranky and unable to focus in school. The only way around this is airconditioning, common enough nowdays but I'm not prepared to back legislation that forces that on people.

Some things (on farms for example) are done according to the sun, not the clock, yet the consequences of those things may be driven by the clock, thus generating a conflict.

Finally I'd mention the other side of the story. No one ever askes why we HAVE daylight saving. Much of the world does quite nicely without it. I realise some like it and that's all well and good, but the argument that we should just comply is countered just as validly with the argument that you should just make individual arangments rather than imposing it society wide.

I hated it when I lived in NSW and I don't want it in Queensland. That's just my (intractible) opinion. :)

2c.

[Waldo]

:whs: Damian, I have never yet disagreed with anything you write.

(I don't want an argument either)

[damian]

and that disturbs me :D

[Waldo]

I disturb myself. :doh:

[Sturdee]

AS I'm retired it doesn't really matter, but when I was working I enjoyed daylight savings.

But it would make more sense if it was an hour in summer and 2 hours in winter. Also there is a valid case for an exception to be made for twin towns on an affected border eg Tweed Heads and the gold coast.


Peter.

[damian]

I disturb myself. :doh:

Something else we have in common...

[Allan at Wallan]

I reckon in our household we could easily have
two time zones.

When I wake up I get up.
When the missus wakes up she stays in bed awaiting brekky.

Therefore we have:

"Al" time, and
"Val" time.

Allan