Daylight Saving...?

[Uncle Al]

And I thought this was the JOKES forum .

It is, and that is why I contributed about solar panels, curtains and bananas!

Alan...

[P.W.H.]

I'm still waiting to be paid the interest on the daylight I saved.
Hell, I don't even know what the going rate is ....

[rwbuild]

Sounds like a shady deal to me.....

[BobL]

This is a really interesting map showing the difference between standard time and solar time.
Solar_time_vs_standard_time.jpg
The more red you have, the more, "so called summertime daylight saving" you have without changing any clocks.
The countries/states that have white in the middle of in them have it about right.
China has correct time centred on Beijing but being a single time zone country western China has up to 3 hours of daylight savings all year round.
Argentina has 1.5-2 hours daylight savings all year round
WA has it about right except the white bit is centred on about Kalgoorlie so that the folks in Perth have ~20 minutes of daylight savings all year round.
The very eastern seaboard edge of NSW has it about right but everywhere else already has up to an hour of daylight savings the whole year round.

[Simplicity]

It is, and that is why I contributed about solar panels, curtains and bananas!

Alan...

And I fell for it

[ian]

Close the curtains to keep out the dark? I thought closing the curtains would make it dark.

it was an expression of my mother's which potentially makes it attributable to my grandmother (born around 1880).
you closed the curtains at night to either keep the "light in" or to close out the dark

[Uncle Al]

And I fell for it

It's alright Matt, I won't tell anyone.
It has been a bit of fun, although I am still a bit concerned for the dairy farmers having to educate their cows to tell the time.

Alan...

[Tccp123]

I used to work shift work when I lived in NSW and inevitably I copped the night shift with the extra hour but never the one with one less hour. The other thing I hated was changing the clocks. EVERYTHING these days has a clock in it - watches and clocks (of course), computers, printers, reticulation systems, security systems, cameras, cars, motor bikes, ovens, TVs, PVRs, DVD players, amplifiers, air conditioners, GPS units, blood pressure monitors, network attached storage units...that's just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. And if you want everything to run according to plan each has to be changed twice a year. Until that can be done easily I'm happy to live in Brisbane.

[rwbuild]

First world problems,

[damian]

First world problems,

You know there is no first and second world don't you ?

Third world is a term that arose during the cold war to identify non aligned countries. Because most were undeveloped it became synonymous with undeveloped countries. After the cold war journalists, who have always been of subnormal intelligence, started using those terms as groupings for economic development.

Alan, thank you so much for the laughs. I just read the 2nd and third pages and had a mighty chuckle.

[ian]

You know there is no first and second world don't you ?

Third world is a term that arose during the cold war to identify non aligned countries. Because most were undeveloped it became synonymous with undeveloped countries. After the cold war journalists, who have always been of subnormal intelligence, started using those terms as groupings for economic development.

Don't be too sure about that.

Prior to the Cold War, 1st World was Western Europe, 2nd World was predominantly the USA and Britain's "white" dominions (Canada, Australia, New Zealand). I'm not sure where South Africa fitted into the lexicon.

Earlier still, 2nd World was the Americas (north and south) in general.

These days, 1st world might mean those members of the OECH who have good public education and universal health care systems, while 2nd World are those OECH members without same -- sorry USA.
3rd World is everyone else -- non member of OECH, no universal health care system.





or is all that too serious for a "JOKES" thread?

[rrich]

what I find snicker worthy about this

if you open the curtains in the morning to let in the light and close them at night to keep out the dark, then daylight "saving" should result in LESS fading as the curtains are exposed to less sunlight between dawn and when you get up and open them to "let in the light".

Ian,
Absolutely brilliant! I will use that argument next year in March when we go back onto DST.

[Allan at Wallan]

This is all too confusing.
If daylight saving starts to affect our blinds then it's curtains for us.

[damian]

roflmao:

Superb Alan, thank you for the laugh

[rosewood]

After all of the discussion on this subject, still can't believe that anyone has mentioned the real reason why Queensland does not have daylight savings.
I was always told as a kid by my auntie in Gympie that Sir Joh ( when he was premier) reckoned the sun shone out of his and he wasn't getting up an hour earlier for anyone.