Daylight Saving...?

[John1410]

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[rwbuild]

Bet he doesn't like loosing an hours drinking time at the end of the day....

[KBs PensNmore]

I came home at 7.00pm tonight, and was told "You're late!!" My reply "No I'm not" then realised I'd set my clock back, not forward.
Kryn

[rwbuild]

Move to WA

[Nanigai]

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[rrich]

Daylight Saving Time is good in some places and bad in others. However you will never get agreement among the populace.

The state of Arizona is virtually all desert and rather hot in the summer and the time zone name is Mountain. The state of Arizona does not go onto Daylight Saving Time. Well, that's not exactly true. Any federal entity does go onto Daylight Saving Time. I don't remember about the post offices. All the national parks and national monuments do use Daylight Saving Time.

The state of California is adjacent to Arizona and in the Pacific time zone. The Pacific Time Zone is one hour earlier than Mountain. I lived in Phoenix the one year we did the clock silliness for Daylight Saving Time. (Probably 1967 or 1968) For Arizona it was a very bad decision. You couldn't go out into the cooler evening. Arizona should go onto Daylight Regression Time and turn the clocks back an hour for the summer.

Recently I have been in Arizona during the time change of turning clocks forward which Arizona doesn't do. When talking with the year round residents, I will say that it is great that Arizona is finally using to Daylight Saving Time. I'll get arguments or be told that I'm wrong. Then I'll say that every year Arizona goes from Mountain Standard Time to Pacific Daylight Time. The response that I get is either quiet pondering followed by laughter or being called a effing idiot. Either is entertaining.

[rwbuild]

How long before the tin hat greens start saying that daylight saving is contributing to global warming .....

[Dareen]

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[damian]

I hate it. I thought it stupid when I lived in sydney but I'd really really hate it in brisbane. It just means you need air conditioning even more through summer...

[Handyjack]

How long before the tin hat greens start saying that daylight saving is contributing to global warming .....

No, it does not contribute to global warming, it causes the curtains to fade though.

[Blocklayer]

If we have 1 hour daylight savings every day, shouldn't we get an extra day (long weekend holiday) every 24 days?

[crowie]

Personally, I don't like it!
I used to leave home at 5am for a start at 6am getting home about 5pm and then do a couple of hours around the house or with the children....
I was a grumpy tired person in those days.

There was a university on the radio on Saturday morning saying that the original economic arguments for it were now very flawed.
In fact the disadvantages out way the advantages; more folk are burning the candle at both ends thus work performance suffers; plus he said we are using more energy with daylight saving not less....

So for my money Queensland, West Australia and Northern Territory have got it right NO DAYLIGHT SAVING BS!!!

[Blocklayer]

They tried it here in QLD in 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens...ferendum,_1992
We used to get to work (laying blocks) and wait for daylight to start work.
Going through town on the way to work in the morning was like late night shopping. Totally dark and all the lights on (waste of electricity)
Ever tried getting kids home from school in the hottest part of a wet season afternoon, giving them dinner and putting them to bed before dark in the middle of summer north of Cairns?

[AlexS]

Whatever the economic or social arguments for or against daylight saving, there is one incontrovertible fact. The closer you are to the equator, the less effect it will have, and the further away you are, the more it will have, simply because the closer you are to the poles, the greater the difference in day length from summer to winter.
Queensland is probably quite right not to adopt it. For Tasmania, it may well be a great benefit.

[ian]

Daylight "saving" really only makes sense in latitudes more than about 35 degrees from the equator. Where I am now (51 degrees north) the sun rises at about 8 AM and sets at about 7 PM (day light time) -- but it is coming into winter. Go back to mid-July (equivalent to January in Aus) and sunrise was around 5:30 and it didn't start to get dark till 10:30 at night.

So really day light "saving" is pretty much a con outside Tasmania and Melbourne