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3rd October 2011, 09:49 AM #16
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3rd October 2011, 03:34 PM #17
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.I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
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3rd October 2011, 03:45 PM #18
Damian, I have never yet disagreed with anything you write.
(I don't want an argument either)
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3rd October 2011, 03:58 PM #19
and that disturbs me
I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
Wait! No one told you your government was a sitcom?
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3rd October 2011, 03:59 PM #20
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3rd October 2011, 05:00 PM #21
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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.
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5th October 2011, 10:01 AM #22
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5th October 2011, 09:17 PM #23
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.
AllanLife is short ... smile while you still have teeth.
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