Daylight Saving

An intellect (you probably mean intellectual) who calls someone a dumb-arse for having an opinion is really showing intellect.

Go the insults, they beat rational discussion any day, don't they.

And although I don't live in Perth, it's not hard to know that Perth is actually +8GMT.

This is a definition of Longitude - "Imaginary lines that cross the surface of the Earth, running from north to south, measuring how far east or west of the prime meridian a place is located"

You are missing the point I make that GMT is an imaginary reference point, and then defining your lack of thought process by quoting it's relevance to another imaginary reference point.

I doubt that anyone can take you seriously with such fundamental logic flaws.

I maybe an intellect, or maybe a dumb arse....that's for others to judge, but I'll bet daylight savings was designed to get lazy intellects out of bed one hour earlier.
Keep the shiny side up.
Ferris

Ho Boo Boo - I was at school when daylight saving was introduced in NSW and did a little project that showed the curtins do fad because of daylight saving. Back then most houses had venetion blinds next to the window and then curtins - so when you get up, the first think people did was open the blinds which then exposed the curtins to the light - so when daylight saving came in the blinds were being opened one hour sooner to sunrise so exposing the curtins to one hour light extra day - whether they faded or not I don't know but it is one story that does have a little bit of truth too it. However, if you didn't have blinds and only curtins then it wasn't true - or indeed, if you didn't have blinds and you pulled your curtins to the side when you got up, daylight saving actually saved your curtins being exposed to the sun by one hour because there was less time for them to be exposed to the early morning sun.

Now - don't forget they can also be faded by a new moon - but I cannot work out yet how to link that to daylight saving. LOL

Garry

yes, its great all these people down the beach, enjoying the extra sunlight, but whos cooking the chops??!! LOL

It's also ironic that QLD rejects D/S because "it wouldn't work here"

QLD has a substantial population affected by early sunset and short twilight, which are prime reasons to adjust the arbitrary time.

We heard it all in Tassie years ago, and Tassie certainly wasn't the first place on earth to have D/S, although the leader in AU in the "modern era".

I have loved D/S from day 1...

hang on I will qualify my post by saying I realize there is no extra light but more light in the pm due to clock fiddling coz so many knockers think we dont realize there has been no extra hour of light. I shall from now on refer to it as evening light not extra light

Actually, you are not incorrect in calling it extra light, since it is light you can utilise over and above that which you have already used (and can never use again.)

Ergo, it's extra :)

Hi Davoe,
Gardening in Nullagine?????!!!!
Trying to out-do the Marble Bar melon competition?
Maybe the extra sun has gotten to you!! ;-)

Gerry

With the drought and all, we'll all have to be drinking imported beer soon :)

And because it takes longer after work to get to midnight, we'll have to drink more of it. Bugger

The process of adjusting the clock has been given a label.

That label is "Daylight Saving". Rolls off the tongue more easily than "Adjusted Time For Summer" or whatever else.

It's also frequnetly referred to as "Summer Time"

Good of you to point out that we are not actually saving any daylight, though.

We didn't know that.

Very true - no such thing as Daylight saving in the UK - its simply called "British Summer Time" and in winter its good old GMT.

The effect the farther north and south you go is pretty dramatic though - gets dark in UK at 10pm in summer but conversely 3-4pm in winter.

Only means two things up here ...Cant go swimming in the lake before work and air con is on longer after work

yes, your correct. I read a article about it in an emergency management journal last year. I cant remember the specifics, but I do remember it also refering to she shape of the earth, it also bulged out more. Dont quote me, trying hard to remember. I will look in the pile next to the thunderbox and see if I can find it.

This could, and possibly is having an effect on the goining ons of the earth at the moment. the earth and is processes are set to such fine tollerences, and this moving of the earth could possibly be affecting natural processes, such as misaligning weather patterns, amounts of sunlight that areas are getting etc. It would be interesting to find out if any one has researched this, and what they have found