Daylight savings - stil Waiting Awhile

The silent majority will speak very loudly if they try to get it through without a referendum.

And why should us proud "Western Australians" let people in other states dictate what they require of us. Do you stick you head in the oven because somebody else does?

Why change a good thing? Get out of bed when you want too, go to bed when you want to. End of Story.

Hmmm thought I read somewhere that WA may move to daylight saving by December '06. Same article said something about SE Qld doing the same but not necessarily that soon.

I'm with you Davoe,

As a Kid growing up in vic. I loved the extra hour, and knew of very few who didn't. I then spent my 20s in NSW, daylight 'til 8.00 or so - 3-6 hrs of windsurfing, fishinig etc after work most days. Once again, I didn't know of anyone who didn't like it.

Don't even get me started on the time zone in KNX, we should be on territory time, not on Perth time. well, we should be part of the territory IMO, then out beurocrats would be stuffing things up from 450k's away, not 3000!

That 'll never happen. We'll have too many resourses for WA to consider giving up a bit of ground. The moove may make the NT large enough to become a proper State etc.......woops, sorry, bit off topic. Bring on the Daylight saving!!

Cheers Andrew

Hey Davoe,
I get an erection every morning at 6.00. If they bring in daylight saving, I'll get it on the bus going to work.
LOL
Steve

For those who want DAYLIGHT SLAVING, it's easy, just get up an hour earlier.

If it;s not broken don't try to fix it!!!!!!!!!.

"REMEMBER IN NATURE THER ARE NO REWARDS & NO PUNISHMENTS,
ONLY CONSEQUENCES"
CHEERS,
Boroma604.

Well its that time of year again where the rest of Australia (with the exception of QLD) sets there clocks forward an hour

And i hope thats the way it stays ,, i for one don't want it ,, keep it where it belongs !!

All the best ,, Neil !!

We need to scream loud and long at those in the city who have been brainwashed into thinking that the Government can actually put an extra hour into the day.

If they want to enjoy an extra hour for leisure, tell 'em to get out of bed an hour earlier and do something while it is still cool.

Beats me how it is so important for business to be in sync with the ES. With Internet communication, we don't all have to be a work at the same time. If it is so important to their particular business, they can get out of bed three hours earlier and work to the same time frame as their ES counterparts.

Leave the clocks alone on WA - it doesn't suit the climate.

If you really want to know of a place that has a major battle with daylight savings, consider the plight of the folks living in Mungindi. It is the only town in Australia that is located on two states (NSW and Qld). Depending on which street you are standing on dictates what time it is.

I was up there earlier this year, and while the locals laugh about it, it is a real pain, especially with things like hospital hours and such. Nevertheless, it is a great little place, with fantastic, friendly people.

Jack

I think the problem is more to do with business hours than DST.

Firstly, some of the drawbacks of DST apart from the ones already mentioned; shiftworkers get nothing from it.
People with young children are feeding, bathing and 'trying' to put their kids to bed while the sun is still up.
If it takes 3 weeks for your bodyclock to adjust and readjust when it's over; that's just less than one ninth of the year spent feeling like you have jet-lag.

Business hours - supermarkets, hardware stores, garden centres and a few other retail businesses have gone down the road of opening times that suit the customer, but the majority of businesses are way behind. Banks - our NAB branch, 9.30 - 4.30, "we are only open while you're at work". And when everyone rushes to the bank in their lunch hour they are understaffed because it's their lunch hour too. Imagine if restaurants worked like that; between 6.30 and 8.00pm half the staff sat down for their dinner. Why can't banks stagger their staff and have some in early to open earlier and take an earlier break and leave earlier and others start later take breaks later and close later? Fully staffed during busy lunch hour AND open from 8.30 til 6.00pm? Yeah, I know, I forgot about economic rationalism. I know if I owned a small business in retail I would probably open a bit later, like 9.30/10.00 and stay open 'til 6.30 and advertise the fact.

But back to DST; if their was more flexibility in trading hours (which seems sensible in it's own right), Instead of changing the clocks have 'Summertime trading hours'. Afterall, it is just psychological, changing the clocks hasn't changed anything; there is the same number of hours in a day, the sun rises and sets according to celestial time, not our clocks - you're just getting up an hour earlier, going to work an hour earlier, eating lunch an hour earlier than you're hungry etc
The difference is; with 'summertime trading hours' the clocks aren't changed so all the negative points of DST don't exist; the kids aren't being forced into bed while the sun is still up etc, but you can still get up an hour earlier to go to work ;-)))

Gee you learn something new every day, from reading some of these posts I understand that NT goes to DST, I thought NT was like QLD and WA left the clocks alone.

cheers

D&B

Gooday,
I guess there are many arguments for both ways but the ultimate solution is:- "LEAVE THE BLOODY CLOCKS WHERE THEY ARE"
Cheers Boroma 604.

Seems the guvormint up here in Godsland is gonna put it to a bluddy refferendum AGAIN, even though Beattie is against it, ( the only good point I've found about him so far ) the fear from most real QLDers is that there is now enough of them Mexicans that have migrated up here to actually vote it in this time !
Makes you wonder why they moved up here in the first place !
If that does happen it might be time to move to th NT.

Avagoodn
Pezza

Daylight savings > sliced bread.
Fancy trying to run a business in the west when you are 3 hours behind EST. Our shops in the west have to have their overnight orders in my 12 midday CST when daylight savings is on which gives pretty bad customer service to them imo.

Also how can you beat getting home and heading for the beach for fish & chips and a game of beach cricket in the daylight?