Day light saving

Wot !! daylight saving starts ONLY in NSW tonight. Wake up. What about the rest of the country ?

Doesn't start here we get to use plenty of the available sunshine

Effie
Common sense prevails only in NT & WA

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pity i cant have all the daylight saved in summer and have it in winter when i really need it

Im in WA at present and thought perhaps I could put the clock forward about 10 years and see if it makes any difference.

Like shops being open longer and on Sundays.

Like having daylight saving, which having lived in NZ where sanity prevails, we could play a round of golf after tea at night.

Was still light at 9.30pm in mid summer.

I cant believe how the greater part of Aussie having a nice mild climate doesnt take advantage of it as far as tourism is concerned.

It goes dark about 5 hours before most want to go to bed. Jeez

In saying that the tradies here start much earlier as most in NZ dont start till 8am and finish at 5pm


Just my thoughts as a satisfied daylight saving user.

And it doesnt fade the curtains and the cows and cats only take a week to get used to it.


Waits for flames


ROFL

I'm not much into poetry, but I like this one. It got a fair mention on my all time favourite radio series "Yes, What?".

Just something to break up the old debate about DLS.

"The Daffodils"

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A Poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.


Wordsworth, 1804

Cheers,

Jim.

Just a point of interest about starting earlier. DLS.

Where I work we will be starting later rather than eariler. A study has found if you work long hours you are at much greater risk of injury.

We work 12.5hrs a day for 7 days and if they move our start times from 5.30 to 7.00, the risk moves from high to low.

Even people working 9hrs a day 5 days a week and starting at 6.00 fall into the moderate risk area.

Down here south of Brisbane we don't need that cursed daylight saving, as already our lawns are faded to almost a deathly colour.
So i connot get out my trusty lawn tractor to mow my over grown lawn that i would sit and watch grow with an extra hour.
Instead i have more time to do nothing,so i do not need an extra hour to do that as i can get up out of bed an hour two earlier to do that.


Cheers,

Bob.

It is suggested that you blokes have a look exactly where your time zones are calculated. Sydney's zone is somewhere to the west of them. Haven't bothered to work it out exactly, think it is somewhere around 151 degrees east. It is just down the road.
A few years ago W.A. had two time zones - Perth time and Kalgoorlie time. Then it became one standard time. Perth moved ahead roughly 20 minutes and Kalgoorlie went back 20 odd minutes. W.A. time zone is now at 120 degrees east. Just west of Ravensthorpe.
Any way, why should we follow like sheep we have more sun light than you.
There have been three strikes and each time it was out.


Tony

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DAYLIGHT SAVING only clock shuffling.

You do need to shuffle the clocks on the line of latitude that we live on.

Ray is close to the mark...
Anyhow check this out, the animated GIF shows the shadow angles for morning and afternoon,

angles

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