Wednesday, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:16
If you eliminate us (the shift workers; morning, like you guys, and evening workers like me who are at work during that 'extra hour of daylight') and people that live near borders with different time zones and people with
young kids and the farmers that it doesn't suit and restaurants that need to trade an hour longer to make the same money etc, etc, it leaves a certain percentage of people who get benefit from it. But, it is also psychological; there are many families out there who think Daylight Savings is great that don't actually use it. They still eat dinner inside, watch the news and prime tv etc while it is daylight. I reckon, realistically, that it is lost on the majority of the
population.
Good on the ones who can use it, though. I remember surfing every day after school and, after that, surfing every day after work; but those days have gone for me.
An example of the psychological aspect of it is a discussion I had with my mother in law when I was trying to explain that if she had flexibility in her hours she could just start an hour earlier and get the same result... "But the clock would say 6am instead of 7am"....It's the same bloody thing!...."But if I was getting up an hour earlier and the clock still says 7am, that is OK".........(insert 'raspberry' here)
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