Daylight saving ends tonight

[Gumby]

I appreciate the extra hours sleep (maybe they should do this every night - we could use the extra sleep) but I really hate having to get up at 2am and change the damn clocks.
I lose the extra hour anyway because it takes that long to get back to sleep.

Why can't they make it change at 8pm or some reasonable hour.

Even if it was 6 oclock. We could watch the news again. But not 5pm. It would become 4pm and we'd have to stay at work another hour.

As you can see, it's not easy to do. Maybe that's why they do it in the middle of the night. They think we won't notice.

[Wood Butcher]

Was interesting to hear on the news the apparently QLD will be "back in step" tomorrow.

WE WERE NEVER OUT OF STEP! Everyone else changes their clocks, not us. Just cause we don't want the curtains to fade!!

[Bleedin Thumb]

I'm always amazed at how my computer always knows when its time to change. .

Please don't enlighten me with your logic as I have my own beliefs on this subject.... all to do with nano-bots sent in by government agencies to infiltrate my computer...

[Iain]

WE WERE NEVER OUT OF STEP! Everyone else changes their clocks, not us. Just cause we don't want the curtains to fade!!

Thats why the change takes place in darkness, it's an extra hour of dark so your curtains won't fade

[outback]

The aliens know when to change ya pewter, ya gotta keep it wrapped in foil or they can read the ya Bleedin'.

[rrich]

Our Daylight Stupid Time started three weeks ago and already the curtains are starting to fade.

It seems to me that your DST just started about three months ago. Or was the grog making me think that your DST was shorter than it really is?

[Gumby]

warning: This Thread Will Be Deleted If Anybody Mentions Faded Curtains Again.

[Daddles]

No it won't.

Faded curtains. Faded curtains. Faded curtains

Put me on the list of those who mourns the passing of daylight savings. Unlike the eastern states, who have a time meridian close to the major cities, in SA, our time meridian is in the EASTERN STATES It's not even our correct time. The result is dusk at dinner time and morning sun at a time when all you want to do is peer at the shaving mirror. Well, get up time is rather loose depending on all sorts of stuff, but the time for worthwhile use of light is in the evening - although I'm still trying to find some work, I'd rather go to work in the dark than get home and find it's dark. More directly, while my son's at soccer training, I go for a ride. Thanks to the earlier dusk, I now need some lights anyway, but most of the ride is in light or dusk, now it'll all be in darkness - yes, now spending money I don't have on lighting systems (unlit bikeways are not the place for cheap led lights).

Yes, whether daylight savings suits you or not depends on your lifestyle, but this is one pussycat who would like his time meridian in MY state so the clocks actually have some relevance to what the sun is doing, and who prefers a bit of extra light in the evening.

And, just for gumby, 'faded curtains'

Richard

[Iain]

warning: This Thread Will Be Deleted If Anybody Mentions Faded Curtains Again.




:u

Not to mention overripe tomatoes and upset cows, actually it does effect the finish on our timber venetian blinds

[echnidna]

I suppose Gumby's curtains are faded and he just doesn't want to be reminded of it.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I left several buckets outdoors for the entire time and when I went out last night to see what I'd netted there wasn't a single drop of daylight in 'em!

Daylight Savings, my asre... Shoulda saved myself the effort.

[ozwinner]

I know Im going to get hammered for this, but Quack, its like water of a ducks back.


This is what the Friday drivel lacks, humour....

Al

[Christopha]

OK, hands up. Who turned their clock the wrong way like me????

[ozwinner]

I heard a good one the other day about how to remember which way to turn the clock.

In spring the clock springs forwards one hour.

In autumn the clock fall back one hour.

Al

[Gumby]

Who said getting up at 2am was humorous ?

I use the old thing.

Change your clock, change your smoke alarm battery.

and these days I add....get the slippies out of the cupboard.