day light savings?

milo · Guru

day light savings?

Sheba · Guru

Think I heard some-one on the ABC yesterday morning say next weekend Milo. They were talking footy, and reminded people so they wouldn't miss Games on TV. Sorry I can't be more specific.

Cheers,

Sheba.

Happywanderer · The Master

Yes Next weekend Milo.

NZ changed this weekend.

nomadic1 · Senior Member

Next Sunday - 6 October- at 2am. According to the website I just googled it starts on the first Sunday in October and finishes on the first Sunday in April. I never knew that! Thank you for motivating me to look that up, Milo.

dazren · Guru

HW, wrote, ---- Yes Next weekend Milo.

NZ changed this weekend.

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To those forumites that think N.Z, are 1 week ahead of Aus !!!

You have got it wrong ?? as they are just getting around to starting last years daylight saving time wink biggrin biggrin

I really like the Kiwi's ! smile BUT ?? Wombat, Dougwe, Michelle, and Duh insisted that this is true cry wink biggrin biggrin

2foot6 · Senior Member

Bugga,it's that time of year again ,I have to get up at 2.00 AM to change all the clocks. biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Pondy · Senior Member

I wish we had it in Queensland I deal with lots of companies in the southern States and when I get to work the phone is ringing already and you can not ring down south after 4,00pm as they have gone home.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

dazren wrote:
HW, wrote, ----   Yes Next weekend Milo.

NZ changed this weekend.
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To those forumites that think N.Z, are 1 week ahead of Aus !!!
You have got it wrong ?? as they are just getting around to starting last years daylight saving time
I really like the Kiwi's !  BUT ?? Wombat, Dougwe, Michelle, and Duh insisted that this is true

dazren, do you know when Tassie changes times. biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Nelly · Guru

I for one do not like daylight saving. I heard on the radio that when it starts in NSW this weekend there will be 5 different time zones in Aust. I think that work places these days offer various starting times so therefore if people want more daylight at the end of their day they could start work earlier. I also think it is hard on kids that have to travel a long way on buses for school. Just my thoughts.

Landfall · Guru

Thanks for the reminder, we will start taking down the curtains on Saturday, the extra hour of sunlight really fades them.

I hope the farmer up the road gives the leading cows a watch, otherwise they will be coming in for milking at the wrong time.

Only good point is that I can come home a little later and not wear out the bulbs in the headlights. biggrin

Ken

dazren · Guru

Wombat wrote -----

dazren, do you know when Tassie changes times. biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

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Yes Mate ?? Next Sunday when Victoria starts Daylight saving time, !! Tasmania will be Celebrating that start of the 19 Century wink biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Mike C · Senior Member

I love the spring change to daylight savings...
Instead of waking at 5:00 in the morning I am able to sleep in until 6:00 am

And stay awake to see a late night movie or two.. :)

QueenKombi · Senior Member

Nelly wrote:
I for one do not like daylight saving. I heard on the radio that when it starts in NSW this weekend there will be 5 different time zones in Aust. I think that work places these days offer various starting times so therefore if people want more daylight at the end of their day they could start work earlier. I also think it is hard on kids that have to travel a long way on buses for school. Just my thoughts.

I'm with you Nelly. Hate it with a passion!

That's one of the reasons I can't wait to retire fully. No more clock watching and those clock fiddling idiots in State Government can go to Hades furious If I have an appointment, I'll just ask the receptionist what time that is in EST and write that on my calendar!

I'm a shocking sleeper at the best of times and messing with my internal clock at the start of daylight savings doesn't help in the slightest

I could put up with it a bit better when it was in the old Victorian time scale because it didn't last so long, but of course Victoria, in their infinite wisdom, decided to follow Tasmania's lead and synchronise the change to and from daylight savings with Tassie.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

QueenKombi wrote:
Nelly wrote:
I for one do not like daylight saving. I heard on the radio that when it starts in NSW this weekend there will be 5 different time zones in Aust. I think that work places these days offer various starting times so therefore if people want more daylight at the end of their day they could start work earlier. I also think it is hard on kids that have to travel a long way on buses for school. Just my thoughts.
I'm with you Nelly. Hate it with a passion!
That's one of the reasons I can't wait to retire fully. No more clock watching and those clock fiddling idiots in State Government can go to Hades If I have an appointment, I'll just ask the receptionist what time that is in EST and write that on my calendar!
I'm a shocking sleeper at the best of times and messing with my internal clock at the start of daylight savings doesn't help in the slightest
I could put up with it a bit better when it was in the old Victorian time scale because it didn't last so long, but of course Victoria, in their infinite wisdom, decided to follow Tasmania's lead and synchronise the change to and from daylight savings with Tassie.

come live in WA

QueenKombi · Senior Member

_wombat_ wrote:
come live in WA

Don't get too ****y. I believe the last referendum for daylight savings was only defeated by a narrow margin and also don't for get all the East-coasters who have migrated to WA and love daylight savings. They number in the thousands and I believe you have to kick them out of the road just to walk around Perth.

I have a friend who moved to Perth last December and she can't wait for another referendum on the subject. She's hoping it will get up this time round hmm

Mind you, should Western Australia's pro-secessionists get their way, I would be over in a flash wink

QueenKombi · Senior Member

I don't believe this censor thing What's wrong with ****y?? We have sulphur crested ones flying all over the country!!

What a laugh biggrin

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Do you mean sulphur crested c0cky's

QueenKombi · Senior Member

_wombat_ wrote:
Do you mean sulphur crested c0cky's

Ahh! A clever ****y biggrin

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

QueenKombi wrote:
_wombat_ wrote:
Do you mean sulphur crested c0cky's
Ahh! A clever ****y

no no no Ahh A Clever c o c k y biggrin

dorian · Guru

Let's see if I understand this daylight saving thing.

In summertime, when the days are longer and there's plenty of sun, we want to extend the daylight hours even more. However, in winter time, when the days are shorter and we could really use the extra daylight hours, we do ... err ... nothing.

dazren · Guru

Dorian ??? In winter it's COLD ?? and Nobody wants to be outside In Summer it's warm and we like to spent as much time outside as possible ?? Simple really !! When it's Cold, I enjoy INSIDE activities, When it's Warm, I enjoy OUTSIDE activities, and the more daylight ? the better, smile

Woolly · Senior Member

Dorian, can you please explain to me how we can get the extra daylight in winter, would be wonderful in my business. Considering during winter it's still dark at 6:45am and gets dark again at 5pm, what are recommending that we set the time so it's daylight at 5:45 am and dark at 4pm or so it gets daylight at 7:45am and gets dark at 6pm. Or do you know a way of storing some if the daylight in summer and transferring it to the winter?

Cloak · Guru

Well they could go metric time. 10 hrs instead of 12 per half day or I should say .5 of a day. That way each hour is longer thus no need for daylight saving.

I proposed this to my local paper back in the 80's but got no interest, didn't even get published.

They're all Communists them journalists. Them and nurses and teachers.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

I believe they had daylight saving in London in winter during WW2, shifting the clock forward by up to 3 hours, mostly so that people would not be on the streets commuting to work at the time of expected bombing raids.
I dont know if we had it in Australia?

I love daylight saving, having time to go out after dinner during long evenings.

Sheba · Guru

They've had it for years in Britian and Canada. Not sure about the USA. Could never get used to going to bed in broad daylight at 10 o'clock at night.

It is so unneccessary for this country.

Cheers,

Sheba.

Santa · Guru

Daylight saving! bring it on, should be in place all states year round, WA in particular, was over there beginning of August, sunset at 5.09pm, what a joke.

barina · Guru

I don't like daylight saving Like Sheba I think it is unnecessary. I hate the sun still blazing hot at 8 - 9pm. And as for the people who say to me well I can sit outside and go for a walk etc.....NO they don't when it's so bloody hot they race home from aircon work to aircon car to aircon house, shutters locked down and never see the light of day until the morning.....the streets are deserted..... Just what I see.

I would like it from April - Oct.

biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

I live in Melbourne

-- Edited by barina on Saturday 5th of October 2013 05:03:25 PM

beiffe · Guru

I think it was originally design to allow the people who work in the sun to start earlier and then get home OUT of the sun earlier in the afternoon.
I loved it when i worked as I could do things after work but now it does not worry me as I get up with the sun and go down again just after the sun goes down. I don't waste my valuable time watching tv etc.
The only time wasting I have is the forums and I normally restrict that for whilst having breakfast and late in the afternoon after I have eaten.
Regards
Brian

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Good way to be Brian (beiffe) - half the time we don't know what time it is, must be around lunchtime, feeling hungry - yawning, time for bed!!!!!!

We don't waste any time, we spend time!!!!

Big Gorilla · Guru

dazren wrote:
Wombat wrote -----
dazren, do you know when Tassie changes times.

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Yes Mate ?? Next Sunday when Victoria starts Daylight saving time, !! Tasmania will be Celebrating that start of the 19 Century

Not nice to talk about my adopted State like that !!! Get it right, it's the 18th. century !!! confuse

Daylight Saving started this morning at 2 a.m.

-- Edited by Big Gorilla on Sunday 6th of October 2013 02:17:56 PM

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