Daylight saving starts soon

[echnidna]

Yippee
More time to make sawdust and less time for drivel

[macca2]

Only on your side of this country.

We in the West don't have it and don't need it. The days are quite long enough thanks.

But then.......... the sun does shine over here on a regular basis.

Cheers
Macca

[vsquizz]

Only on your side of this country.

We in the West don't have it and don't need it. The days are quite long enough thanks.

But then.......... the sun does shine over here on a regular basis.

Cheers
Macca

Depends which way Bob's rear end is pointing doesn't it?

Cheers

[silentC]

I'm with Bob. The sun is rising at about 5:30 these days. That's about 2 hours' wasted daylight as far as I'm concerned. Bring on daylight savings!!!

[craigb]

I'm with Bob. The sun is rising at about 5:30 these days. That's about 2 hours' wasted daylight as far as I'm concerned. Bring on daylight savings!!!

Not to mention the bloody dawn chorus which starts about 4.30 !

Bloody wildlife!

[Kev Y.]

AAAAHHH daylight savings, wait for the complaints about fading curtains and confused dairy cows

[barnsey]

Bah Humbug :mad:
Daylight Saving :eek:
Up here, one part of the household has to live with DS (NSW)
Another part has to live without DS (QLD)
And the rest of us have to work out what the time is/was/should be :mad:
And all because those wonderful beings north of the border don't want to suffer the hardship of their washing fading because there's an extra hour of sunshine, or the farmers won't know what time to milk their cows :mad: :mad:

What a pain in the coit :mad: :mad: :mad:

[silentC]

I love it. I get an extra hour of daylight in the afternoon to do things with the kids and around the house. For example it's actually worth opening a tin of paint and wetting a brush.

To those who worry about their washing - hang it out an hour later. To those worried about the cows - sleep in an hour.

[goat]

this is the second week of day light savings in tassie believe me we need all the bloody sun we can get

[barnsey]

To those who worry about their washing - hang it out an hour later. To those worried about the cows - sleep in an hour.

I couldn't agree more but these are among the top reasons why those north of the Tweed River have decided that they don't want it and the pollies are too scared to go against the trend :mad: :confused:

As a former Victorian - I loved it
Having lived in Queensland for a number of years I empathise with those in the far north, they have modified their daily habits to deal with the summer heat - they start work at 6am or earlier coz that's the cool part of the day. Unfortunately they can't get their heads around what changing the clocks does :confused: ie absolutely nothing

Living on the border between the two is a bloody nightmare :eek:

[silentC]

The only real difference is what it does to 'normal business hours'. In my case, at this time of the year I'd prefer to start at 6:30 and knock off at 3:00 (instead of 7:30 to 4:00) but my boss would be sure to ring and ask me to do something right on 3pm, so I'd end up doing an extra hour every day. I have enough trouble getting out the door at 4pm :mad:

[journeyman Mick]

Having lived in Queensland for a number of years I empathise with those in the far north, they have modified their daily habits to deal with the summer heat - they start work at 6am or earlier coz that's the cool part of the day. Unfortunately they can't get their heads around what changing the clocks does :confused: ie absolutely nothing

Living on the border between the two is a bloody nightmare :eek:

Actually, moving the clock does have an impact up here. Families try to get their kids to bed and it's still stinking hot. Cooking dinner while it's still in the high 30s and the humidity is in the 90s is murder. Instead of knocking off just in time to miss the afternoon deluge during the wet (and believe me, you haven't seen rain until you've seen rain in the tropics during the wet) you're up on the roof trying to tack it down with a cordless while it's p!ss!ng down at the rate of 1" per hour. For the dairy farmers getting up an hour later is all fine and well, unfortunately the trucks, processing plants etc etc run on business hours, not the cows' biological clock. I don't have a problem with Australia or even the eastern states changing the clock, but let's decide what we want to change it to and LEAVE IT THERE! , none of this changing it forward for summer and backwards for winter. I'm sorry but if you choose to live where it's bloody cold and dark for part of the year I see no reason why I should be inconvenienced whilst you try to cope. We don't ask the southern states to change their clocks in order for us to cope with the heat, we worked out our solution to the problem decades ago and it didn't involve annoying or inconveniencing any one else.

Mick the redneck

[jackiew]

went for a walk 6am ish this morning and it was lovely.... pottered around the house before work but its not worth starting anything much only to stop.

Roll on being able to do stuff when I get home in the evening in daylight .

[Zed]

Hi,

Is not the switch to daylight savings to do with the amount of summer sunshine our fair land gets as compared to winter sun ? in my understanding because of where we are in our orbital path with respect to the angle the sun, it shines on the southern (and northern) hemispheres more or less,thus we actually get longer days in the southern hemisphere or the northern hemisphere..., the people closer to the magnetic poles notice the difference in daylinght hours far more significantly than the people closer to the equator. thus the cane toads whinge and ***** that the southern states cant get thier clocks right and the taswegians and mexicans complain that its either dark at 4PM or daylight until 11PM depending on what season we're in and how far south they are.... so its not becuase the cows get confused or due to econimoc necessity but rather due to mother nature saying "well I have to spin you guys and cool you down or heat you up otherwise or you'll fall off or always be hot or cold... eh???"

The good thing of course is that NSW being a goodly distance from equator and southern pole gets this wonderful afternoon sun to play in but no "annoying wake me up early through the blinds" morning sun to start the day with. I'm very happy to live in gods gardens and am pleased that you taswegians, mexicans and toads have to adjust yourselves to suit us - its only fair we pay most of the taxes to support your underperforming selves and its about time you gave us something back! Not forgetting the church goers and sand gropers - theys late anyway so no big deal for them right ?

Doesnt most of the world practice daylight savings in some form or another ???








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[Woodgrub]

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