Daylight Saving Has Started - HUMBUG

[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]

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

(I don't want an argument either)

[damian]

and that disturbs me

[Waldo]

I disturb myself.

[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.

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