Daylight Saving Already

How does that song go

Dreamer, silly little dreamer .....

Hahahahahaha

Queensland, one hour AND a hundred years behind the rest of the country LOL

Daylight saving is another European idea that should have been left in Europe.

What's the problem guys - too much trouble changing your clocks or what :-))

Gee I look forward to it each year.

Cheers JD

Hi Kev, It never ceases to amaze me why they don't start an hour earlier and knock off an hour earlier.
Isn't that what work choices and a democratic society is all about. (snicker, snicker)

The rain started an hour earlier here in COROWA

I love this debate. Same every year. Personally I love not waking up with the sun at 5am and having extra daylight after work to enjoy being outside with the family. But the actual time is just an inconvenience sometimes. When I go camping I get up in the morning, I have lunch at lunchtime and go to bed when I'm tired. It's true a clock will help with some things like tide times or if your meeting friends somewhere. Like this time, at band camp, sorry different story, camping towards the end of a cloudy, windy day, everyone was peckish, must be tea time. Crank the BBQ start cooking then some fool looks at the clock. 3PM. Shut it down - too early. Needless to say the first things packed from then on were chips and dips......

Cheers

Mark

As a former Queenslander myself I can only say how wonderful it is now to be living in civilisation. These southereners can actually cope with change.

QLD will catch up one day, well maybe LOL.

yep what a pain in the butt, had to change clocks & watches today, Tuesday have to change to VIC/NSW time, next Sunday change to QLD time on our big move to Sunshine coast. 3 bloody time zones arrrrgh, family in NZ won't know what time it is haha 3 1/2 hours behind in Adelaide, 3 in Victoria and 2 1/2 in QLD, poor old ma will be lost.

Hey,

Another plus for the NextG phones.

My Nokia 6120 changed automatically.
The Nokia 6021 GSM's authough set to automatic update, didn't.

So there!

Kev
Yep ...same old story every year as someone said, Same old mob of protaginists emerge from within the timber tops every year to push thier whims and wants on everyone else ,the same lot of excuses each year pop up, trade, time with family , go to the beach , ...what a load of schiitt , I could lay a bet on it that their lives don't change for the better, Oh noooo it's an excuse to spend more time at the pub and drink and gamble ,
All this crap about time differences affecting trade is crap, Trade is not conducted like it was years ago, It's nearly all done by phone / Internet , I can go on the internet at midnight and buy some item from Melbourne or Perth , In normal Non Daylight saving times WA is 2 hours behind the Eastern States and businesses conduct trade without any problems, Australia does trade with USA , It's a day behind us ,I know one thing here and that is there is the desire of a section of people who want to have Qld go to Daylight saving to satisfy their own ego , I really think it would be better for whole of Australia to stay at the normal times , I was in Perth last year when it started and in the mornings I had to have a light on and the heater when I got up , this idea of saving power is hogwash. The idiots on the Gold coast and Brisbane want to sit down and re-think things over, They get the opertunity to begin trading with NSW and Vic at 8am instead of 9am , all the fools on DS in NSW knock off at 4 pm Qld Time and flock across the border to spend money in Qld , They are also up 1 hour before us in the morning and heading for Qld ,

Doug

How about all the people that don't like DST leave Australia and move to Qld. LOL

because of daylight savings, i have to waste the whole day rewriting all the weeks rosters.

And even better news is that next year summer time is extended, it starts early Oct.....yahooooooooooooooo

I even have the EO clock still running on QLD time and I'm in Sydney.
Good call David LOL

to All
Lets put it another way , A way the selfish Advocates don't think off or care about.
Take Boulia for instance , ( and anyone with a Garmin GPS Map 276C can check this for a more acurate reading for today, and while your at it get the times for Camooweal and Mt Isa . )
Boulia was when I measured it once 1Hr and 5 minutes behind Brisbane for Sunrise. I forget what month I did that , Now Camooweal is another 183 klm West of a line from Boulia ,
Far western Qld already has the Sun in the sky later than Brisbane, and if they went daylight saving they will be going to work and working in the dark for 2 hours,
Later when the Day night shadow leans more like / the forward slash the line will be from Tip of Cape York to Ceduna , These idiots in the City think the line is due North and South ,In WA in the afternoon the line will be at part of summer Derby to Eucla

I'm with you Kev.

Daylight savings sux badly. Here in WA we had THREE, that's 3, referenda on it. The answer was NO each time yet we still have it forced on us by the Nazis in power over here. Last year a letter to our morning newspaper summed it up: if a woman said NO to a man's sexual advances 3 times, that bloke would be in jail. But these crims are still shagging us.

Now, maybe if QLD and WA seceeded from the rest of Oz......

after all, we two States are keeping the rest in dole money aren't we?

And let's not even talk about extending retail trading hours. What a crazy suggestion. Only suits Woolies and Bunnings.

Kev
I have a screensaver that shows the day/night , once downloaded and working you can add your Lat/Long , set it at about 8000klm / above , You can download it form here.
Earth Screen Saver for Windows


Doug

Its fnny how the anti DLS gets plenty of airtime - radio, newspaper letter internet etc. you would almost think everyone was against it.
...........
until you talk to the people out there enjoying themselves- there too busy having a ball outside at the beach having barbies, going for walks swimming or just kicking back in the late evening sun
these people are the silent majority. they have better things to do than shut themselves inside and hit the keyboard or pen a letter to the paper.
BTW
i am about to leave work and i am tossing up weather to take the 6k walk back to camp or use the pool (might still be a bit cold for that)