Camping Season to be extended by 5 weeks

You don't get an extra hour of daylight , Sun still rises and sets at the same time , that;s what I can't work out with people being obsessed with the idea,besisdes the shadow line is not due North /South and in the summer months it is on an even more of a lean to the left in the morning and to the right in the afternoons making the days in the North much longer than the South anyway, not even politicians know or think of that.....not that they can think much anyhow

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you do get an extra hour of daylight after work, cause work goes back an hour and I agree Jimbo I hope it gets thru

We are not all idiot's, Doug.We know if you get up earlier in the morning by 1,2,3,4,& so no hour's you get to go home after a day's work & we get that extra time to do the thing's we hate,lawn,weed, trim trees,paint house the list goe's on but not enough for relaxing. But there are those who beleive in doing all this.good for office worker is about all.:)-<
Bob.

It was fantastic when daylight saving started earlier in NSW for the Sydney Olypmics.

September can have some beautiful weather and being an office worker, I don't need it to be light at 5:30am. But light at 7:00pm is fantastic.

Hmmm.... I better start drinking again. I'm (almost) certain some replies have been editted from this thread.

Anyway, roll on daylight saving - love it :))))))))))))

We do not have "Daylight Saving" in W.A. There has been a couple of referendums on the issue but they have always been defeated but there is nothing to stop those who want it from starting work an hour earlier in the morning and finishing one hour earlier at night.

This 'Day light Saving' thing is a figment of the social engineering cootas imagination.

All you have to do is get rid off/hide the time monitoring pieces and do as the chooks do.

GET UP AT SUNUP AND GO TO BED AT SUNDOWN

Do you really think it'll make that much difference?

In the middle of summer there's maybe 14 hours of daylight every day, by March there'd be around 11 hours. So although daylight saving will prolongue the daylight hours after work by a bit compared to normal time, you might only have daylight until 6.30, or thereabouts. Nice at the time, but pretty insignificant compared to it still being light at 9pm in the middle of summer when daylight saving really comes in to play.

In other words, in summer office workers have daylight +4 hours after work finishes, or thereabouts. By the time March comes around, there might be 1.5 hours post work.

If daylight hours after work are that important, why not start and finish work earlier? I know most people have office jobs and there are varying degrees of ability to take off a few hours extra on friday avo having put in a few hours extra through the week.

I've always been a morning person so I get up with the sparrows anyway. Biggest hassle for us in the West is that we will be 3.5hrs behind the East, it's bad enough now with 2.5hrs. If you have to dell with east by phone when I'm still working they've racked off so I have to ring the next day, or they try and ring me at say 8.00am their time and I'm nowhere near work so they will now need to start their West contacting at 11 am.
Also watching live sport is painful, for us we always seem to get delayed telecasts. But when we have games that are telecast to the east we have to start the games sooner so as to fit in with the East's television times. Classic example is Football. Guys here in the west will know what I mean. Friday night game at Subi starts during peak hour traffic. Bloody stupid.
At the end of the day the time differences in a country as big as ours will always be a nuisance. Personally if WA got day light-saving I'd love it.

I'm with you Jim. daylight saving is great. another 5 weeks would be fantastic.

For all of you doubters who are going to say that it doesn't fade the curtains, I might point out that it is the afternoon sun which fades the curtains, and since one gets one hour more of sunshine in the afternoon when the daylight saving is on, there are going to be some angry housewives out there if you get another 5 weeks.

Hi Jimbo,

Not all of us Sandgropers are anti day light saving. I would like to see its introduction and I know heaps who feel the same way. Obviously not enough though as two referendums have voted against it.

Doing business with Eastern States customers is a real PItheA. For these projects we typically take measures to work around the problems but impacts effectiveness when responses are needed same day. I much prefer dealing with the USA - seem to get so much more done when both parties are working opposite shifts.

Hugh

I do shift work and work stupid hours. One of the drawbacks of my job. People complain of driving to work in the dark. Try starting work at 8:30 pm and finishing at 7 the next morning! What do you think I'm doing now at 4 am?

The only way daylight saving affects me is that we start playing cricket an hour later. Other than that it has no affect.

When I was a kid (many years ago) I lived in the UK and during the WW11 we had double summer time. I was at school at the time and having to go to bed when it was still daylight was a real pain in the butt. Being at a reasonable Northern latitude it didn't get dark till 11pm but hell didn't it fade our curtains and even caused blackout blinds to fade but we save alot of money on power bills and the betteries in our bike lamps lasted a lot longer. The goverment also though it was better for shooting down enemy planes but that was a close kept secret like eating carrots to see in the dark.
Daylight saving is a political con. You don't same daylight at all. You have the same ammount however you set your clock.
I used to work in the mines and it was dark all the time down there.

Well guys, I have been saving the extra hour every day since daylight saving came in. Unlike the rest of you i decided to not waste mine and now i am in a good position to use them wisely.. I just need some advice on how to retrieve them!!! Michael.