Buggar Daylight Savings Time

[Honorary Bloke]

For reasons known only to the founts of wisdom in Washington, we have gone on DST already. I hate it. They say it saves electric but I don't see it. What lights I don't turn on at night I burn in the morning. Always leaving for work in the dark. Buggar it!

When does OZ go on DST and is it unversally popular?

[Gra]

that extra hour of sunlight also fades the curtains, and confuses the cows, they dont know when to get milked...

[Honorary Bloke]

that extra hour of sunlight also fades the curtains, and confuses the cows, they dont know when to get milked...

Well, mate, it also throws the chooks into a spin, don't it?

[echnidna]

Its popular in the south but up north they don't like it.

Amongst reasons the Queenslander anti DST gives is that it fades their curtains.

[Tex B]

This year the 25th of March is my favorite day of the year - the 25 hour day.

Bliss. I wish every day was a 25 hour day.

Tex

[MurrayD99]

Hi Bob - I think NZ changes to DST this coming Sunday - but they are talking of extending it by a few weeks - and/or shifting the clocks one hour permanently. It doesn't worry me what they do - but life would be a whole lot simpler if we all made the change the same weekend. Trying to explain "sometimes we are 19 hours ahead, then for a couple of weeks it is 20, then it goes to 21....." is too hard.

[RufflyRustic]

I actually like the other Oz states being on DST, but only because my cable tv - Austar - also goes onto DST and I can watch a lot more programs that I'd normally miss, and if I miss the early ABC or SBS program, just wait an hour and I can get it on my normal TV channel, or watch it twice even if I'm so inclined

[silentC]

Bob, this is one of those polarising debates that we have been having since I can remember.

Personally, I like it. It makes sense to me. You get that extra hour of daylight after work and you don't have the sun streaming in the bedroom window at 5:00 in the morning.

Yes, you could start work an hour early and knock off an hour early to the same affect, but for some reason, if you start an hour early, it never seems to pan out that you knock off an hour early. I used to start at 7:30 so I could knock off at 4:00. I always seemed to get a phone call or something right on 4:00 and I'd have to do something before I went. All I was doing was working an extra half an hour every day. So now I start at 8.

[Mattsplatt]

Hi Bob,

I love it! Down here (Melbourne) - the DST means more daylight hours after my paying job to do things that I like to do (in daylight!).

I can fit in nine holes of golf after work, go to the beach, ride a bike, take photos etc that I would normally not get to do.

So for me - it's all thumbs up!

It's not still light at midnight like some places I have been to, but just a 'civilized' hour for sunset and a quiet ale or 4.

I would, however, feel sorry for the Queenslanders if they had daylight savings, the cost for replacing curtains every few years form that extra light woould be horrific

[Honorary Bloke]

Many interesting replies to this thread. Different perspectives. I know this is an old topic, but . . .

On the other hand, if one more person says that it fades the bluddy curtains . . . Well, what can you expect from Qlanders?

[echnidna]

Ya reckin they'd have made non fade curtains by now

[Howdya do that]

Daylight saving's is a PITA for anyone working in the country. My family has to rise at 6am to get everyone showered, fed and to work or school on time and my wife walks the dog at this time because its cool, all in the bloody dark.
Add to that most of my clients work till dark and the mobile phone coverage is shyte house so they are ringing me between 8:30 and 10pm.
Makes it a bloody long day .

[Mattsplatt]

Many interesting replies to this thread. Different perspectives. I know this is an old topic, but . . .

On the other hand, if one more person says that it fades the bluddy curtains . . . Well, what can you expect from Qlanders?

Sorry Bob! We Mexicans take every opportunity to hang it on them there Northern Folk!

Often without reason, but who needs one?
Like who needs a reason for opening another beer or a good bottle of red?

[Gra]

just remember HB, you have the deep south, we have the far north.... same mental state..;-)

[silentC]

Something to do with proximity to the Tropics....