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GENERAL STUFF => GENERAL DISCUSSIONS => Random Chit Chat => Topic started by: Lakes on September 14, 2011, 20:37:11
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Hi all, well here in NSW Daylight savings starts October 2, can't wait!
how do the rest of you feel about it?
I know NSW,VIC,TAS & SA all have DS in au.
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Well we do this idiot clock thing in the UK and as far as I am concerned it's a pain up the trumper.... come february I'll be turning on the house light at 3:30 in the afternoon.... AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I am dreading it.... :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum:
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It's sure a topic of conversation up here in Qld.
The SE corner is generally in favour but the rest of the State (which is further west, so badly affected in the time zone) isn't.
Having lived with it in NSW for many years I'm personally a fan but then I'm an early riser anyway.
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Can anyone enlarge upon this meaning "Daylight savings"? What is so special about it?
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Misha... it came about as a wartime measure. Allegedly to increase the daylight for farmers, when that excuse ran dry they (our great leaders) said it was to keep children safe going to school in the mornings. It is of course utter rubbish they is no way to make the days longer......
I am sure someone will explain it better than I can... It makes me so angry :scared: :scared: :scared: :faint: :faint: :faint:
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Can anyone enlarge upon this meaning "Daylight savings"? What is so special about it?
We put our clocks forward 1 hour in early October and switch them back late March. It means at times you are getting up while it is still a bit dark but that when you get home from work at say 5.30PM you have an extra hour of daylight to do stuff outside .. be it Chores or Pleasure pursuits...
I'm geneally in favour but I feel guilty at times if I don't take the opportunity to do some chores.. :rolleyes:
Edit: I think Tasmania may have been the first stateto introduce it over here as it used to be called Tas Time and all our TV shows used to be out of Sync for that period.
and.. you have to allow for a bigger time difference when you ring family and friends in WA (3 hours instead of 2)
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We don't want it up here in Nth Qland.. It makes the curtains fade faster. :whistler:
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From 1989 to 1992, daylight saving was trialled in Queensland. In February 1992, a compulsory referendum on daylight saving was held after the legislation to conduct the referundum was narrowly passed in parliament by a vote of 43 to 40. 89% of the enrolled voters participated in the referendum. The results were:-
* 892,119 (54.5%) voted NO & 744,686 (45.5%) voted YES.
* Of the 89 electoral districts, 38 (42.7%) voted NO & (57.3%) voted YES.
* Of the 1623 polling booths, 1035 (63.8%) voted NO and 588 (36.2%) voted YES.
In 2010, another request for a referendum on the subject was defeated in parliament because our state polititians know it is political suicide to introduce daylight saving.
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Blame Benjamin Franklin :Shocked: :Shocked:
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html (http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html)
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We don't want it up here in Nth Qland.. It makes the curtains fade faster. :whistler:
Tee hee. :mrgreen:
I've never liked what we have in the UK. Come 31st October the clocks will go back one hour and the evenings will go dark an hour earlier. Great. :disapp:
It is all to do with Scottish farmers who like to milk their cows at 6 am or summat. The Scots are semi-independent now, why don't they have their own timezone?
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Tassie was 1st to re-instate Daylight Savings after the war years ...
Quote from Wiki :-
'In 1968 Tasmania became the first state since the war to practice daylight saving. In 1971, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory followed Tasmania by observing daylight saving. Western Australia and the Northern Territory did not. Queensland abandoned daylight saving time in 1972. Queensland and Western Australia have observed daylight saving over the past 40 years from time to time on trial bases."
Quite interesting.. goes back a lot longer than I realised....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Australia)
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There used to be a joke that when Qld rejected daylight saving, it was then 10yrs and one hour behind the rest of the east coast.. :Shocked:
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There used to be a joke that when Qld rejected daylight saving, it was then 10yrs and one hour behind the rest of the east coast.. :Shocked:
But all of us QUeenslanders know better, eh Jack :question: :D :D :D
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even though I like the daylight saving here in the west, I think it got voted out last year...
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I could say UM but never would, that maybe because of all us Southerners moving to Qld, it has caught up by 5 years, but I would never say that ... ;)
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i would rather an extra hour of daylight in the evening to get some kayaking/swimming/surfing/flying/BBQ time in after work than have to pull the blinds shut to keep the sunlight out at 5 am, an hour before i get up to go to work.....
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I could say UM but never would, that maybe because of all us Southerners moving to Qld, it has caught up by 5 years, but I would never say that ... ;)
AND as a real Queenslander, I could say (but never would) that Mexicans belong on the southern side of the border where they can tamper with God's clock as much as they want :wink: :wink:
Jack relaxing on The Strand :whistler: :whistler: :whistler: :whistler:
(http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr343/umongrel/funnymexican.gif)
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Ya got the hats around the wrong way UM... :lol:
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Ya got the hats around the wrong way UM... :lol:
You are a funny man, Jack :Shocked: :eek::Shocked: :eek::Shocked: :faint:
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I have been called worse UM... :winker:
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asathorny
Dazzler
Thank you very much for an explanation, now I see what you're talking about.
We used to put our clocks forward and back as well before this spring when the president said it was the last time when the hour hand was to be moved and from autumn and on this procedure would be eliminated. We used to call the periods when the clocks were put either side Summer time and Winter time.
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asathorny
Dazzler
Thank you very much for an explanation, now I see what you're talking about.
We used to put our clocks forward and back as well before this spring when the president said it was the last time when the hour hand was to be moved and from autumn and on this procedure would be eliminated. We used to call the periods when the clocks were put either side Summer time and Winter time.
Exactly.... SUMMER time and WINTER time is what we call it as well.......... I hate it, I hate it, I hate it :fum: :fum: :fum:
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Do you QLD landers remember Joh & Flow? & the tic gate on the boarder?
well love it or hate it, it starts 2 october goes to 1st April, i'm like Ultralight love it, it's daylight till 8.00pm & sun it up at 6am or earlier. when i was in Tassie in summer seemed like sun was up for a lot longer than up here.
cheers
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Yeah.. nice long evenings down here in summer (well after 9PM) :goodjob:
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Do you QLD landers remember Joh & Flow? & the tic gate on the boarder?
well love it or hate it, it starts 2 october goes to 1st April, i'm like Ultralight love it, it's daylight till 8.00pm & sun it up at 6am or earlier. when i was in Tassie in summer seemed like sun was up for a lot longer than up here.
cheers
Joh and Flo. :happydance:
Joh is long gone. "Don't you worry about that".
Flo still lives at Bethany the family property and hosts tourists who can sample her famous pumpkin scones and she is the spokesperson for some retirement village in Brisbane (might be down UM's way I think).
And the tick gate building is still in situ at South Tweed Heads. I drove past it a few weeks ago on the way to a Tweed River High School 50 year celebration.
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We had a referendum here in the west and it was unanimously voted against daylight saving.
So was that the end of it? No, they still keep trying to get it back in.
As well as the curtains fading more quickly, the cows don't produce as much milk, the chooks go off the lay so no eggs in the shops and the kids don't go to sleep at night time.
How much evidence do we need??? :)
Gee, I don't know why they don't just put it to bed and forget about it.
If we'd been meant to get up an hour earlier in the morning we'd all have been born with torches on our heads...... ;)
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I love it. :goodjob: :goodjob2: It means there is an extra hour after work to do things. Garden, walk whatever. I even get to see my backyard, which I don't get to see during the week in winter. Bring it on! :happydance:
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There is one thing embarassing about daylight savings .. :-[
What used to happen when I first woke up in the morning :winker:
Now happens when I am about to walk into my job :rofl:
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Well, to be honest, I enjoyed an additional hour for sleep being at home and hated it while at work and another way around with one hour less, that's why I'm happy this nonsense was canceled once and for all.
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There is one thing embarassing about daylight savings .. :-[
What used to happen when I first woke up in the morning :winker:
Now happens when I am about to walk into my job :rofl:
:lol: :lol: :lol: You shave perhaps? Eat rice bubbles I guess :confused:
get dressed??
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^^^^^^^^^
E.M.F.
:-[ :Shocked:
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Just another con for the electricty companies to get more dosh from use as we have to put our lights on earlier so use more units.
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Just another con for the electricty companies to get more dosh from use as we have to put our lights on earlier so use more units.
I think they argue that over here it actually saves power as don't put lights on as early in the evenings... :undecided:
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It's amazing, whenever DLS is mentioned it is always discussed "widely"
Lots of opinions & interest, even here
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Just another con for the electricty companies to get more dosh from use as we have to put our lights on earlier so use more units.
I think they argue that over here it actually saves power as don't put lights on as early in the evenings... :undecided:
Yes that is OK in the Spring when you have longer periods of daylight but we are now going into our winter so longer period of darkness
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go to work in the dark, come home in the dark... and when I used to do nights at the hozzie AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I never used to see any daylight at all. Now I can understand our Oz and NZ cousins if they get more daylight time to use, BUT WE DON'T and as my countryman states WE USE MORE LECTRIC :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum: :fum:
:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :faint: :faint: :faint: :faint: :faint: :sweating: :sweating: :sweating:
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A friend of mine thinks, that she gets more time to live :) if she is up early & stays up till late she gets more time to enjoy life . rather than sleep all the time. but i told her you get old too fast that way :rofl:
cheers
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There is one thing embarassing about daylight savings .. :-[
What used to happen when I first woke up in the morning :winker:
Now happens when I am about to walk into my job :rofl:
What's the story, morning glory?....... :p
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There is one thing embarassing about daylight savings .. :-[
What used to happen when I first woke up in the morning :winker:
Now happens when I am about to walk into my job :rofl:
What's the story, morning glory?....... :p
:-[:lol: :lol:
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Just for the record I was only joking... I don't start work until 1PM :winker:
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Just for the record I was only joking... I don't start "PAID" work until 1PM :winker:
Fixed :D
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Yeah.. good point.. :lol:
For a minute there I thought they had promoted you to Moderator over night) :Shocked:
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Yeah.. good point.. :lol:
For a minute there I thought they had promoted you to Moderator over night) :Shocked:
Funny you should say that..... :p
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Hey rusty, when did you move to Townsville?
Just what we need up here, another Mexican tourist... :cool:
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Hey rusty, when did you move to Townsville?
Just what we need up here, another Mexican tourist... :cool:
Hey Jack, I arrived on Friday..... :D
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Hi all,
Do you people actually realise how many damned clocks, radios, tv's, watches, dvd players, car radios, mobiles ,i-pads etc you have to change. By the time I have worked out how to do them all, and get them all on the same time, it's time to go back to normal time...
But having said that I am in favour(south east Queenslander)
Don
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Do you people actually realise how many damned clocks, radios, tv's, watches, dvd players, car radios, mobiles ,i-pads etc you have to change
That does surprise me :eek:
I only manually adjust 4 timepieces in my house:
- clock on oven
- clock on microwave
- timer on central heating controller
- carriage clock in lounge
All the rest either have a button that flips one hour forwards/backwards (ok, so it's a manual change), or pick up the new time from radio (DAB feeds), tv (HD muxes), 3G (cell updates) or atomic stream (2 wall clocks and 2 waveceptor wristwatches).
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ausi30
that is what we have done this year, so no more winter and summer time once and for all :P
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Do you people actually realise how many damned clocks, radios, tv's, watches, dvd players, car radios, mobiles ,i-pads etc you have to change.
Yeah Don... I hear you. In our house there are 2 or three watches, Bedside Clock, Microwave, 6 or 7 wall clocks, 3 car clocks (my car has 2) and various other things.... :whistler:
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Do you ever ask, "What's the Time"? Dazz :rofl:
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Do you ever ask, "What's the Time"? Dazz :rofl:
Not often .. although ironically there are one or two places in our house, where I sit that I acually have to turn my head a whole 90 degrees :disapp: to see the time (if I don't have my watch on) :rofl:
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They say its bad Feng Shui having a lot of clocks.......
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They say its bad Feng Shui having a lot of clocks.......
But it's OK if you've got the time to read them.
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The one thing I hated changing for DLS was the sundial... :confused:
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The one thing I hated changing for DLS was the sundial... :confused:
:rofl: A bit like moving your house a bit to the left.. :winker:
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The one thing I hated changing for DLS was the sundial... :confused:
:rofl: A bit like moving your house a bit to the left.. :winker:
Bloody useless things anyway. Only work for half the day. Can't even use a torch to read them at night. :P
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I took the batteries out of all of my clocks so I don't have to change them when DLS comes, and they're right twice a day every day anyway. :)
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I took the batteries out of all of my clocks so I don't have to change them when DLS comes, and they're right twice a day every day anyway. :)
We have an antique clock Trish wants to get fixed but I'm using the "right twice a day argument" to save some money .... :undecided:
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That doesn't sound like you, mate..... :lol:
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Daylight saving is a pain! No need to stuff with the clocks, just allow the Earth and nature to vary daylight according to the season. That's what life is all about, not adjusting things to suit commerce or save a $ etc. I don't know about you, but I'm old enough to have lived before all this interference, it was great. No point in having 2 timezones on your watch, how do you KNOW it's not out by an hour? :fum:
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It's all a large conspiracy by the Government to control everything we do!! Who says it's 9 o'clock? The Government does (they set your "time zone"). If it was really set by the sun, then at midday the sun would be at it's apex (or highest point above you). I can guarantee that for the majority of people, it is not (unless you live on one of the prime meridians, eg. 0, 10, 20, 30 etc degrees East or West). And then it would have to fall in the time zone you are in. Who cares, really?
Personally I like Daylight Savings. It enables me to enjoy my time outside with my family after work, when the weather is nicer. Much nicer in Tasmania too, when the summer days are much longer (due to Tassie being further South).
My rant over (I am just annoyed at being back in Melbourne after two weeks in Thailand) :)
FatBoy
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My rant over (I am just annoyed at being back in Melbourne after two weeks in Thailand) :)
FatBoy
Hi Jamie.. Nice to see you back on :D
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My rant over (I am just annoyed at being back in Melbourne after two weeks in Thailand) :)
FatBoy
Hi Jamie.. Nice to see you back on :D
:whsaid:
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i love day light savings for the same reason as fatboy, [slim :wink:] :razz:
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Damn! I just remembered the time in our 5 cordless phones, the two garden clocks and the floor heating timers in our bathrooms :whistler: I think I've gone off daylight savings... :rolleyes:
Daylight Saving's Downside (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VemhBGh6M8#)
Daniel Tosh Day Light Savings Time.wmv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBhPQRZSgUc#ws)
Saving Time with Daylight Savings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDzsR46zvc8#)
and I really like this one... (A bit of swearing though NSFW)
Give Me Back My Son - Ransom Parody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9_6Ax7RT8E#ws)
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Thanks for those, Daz..... :goodjob2:
I have changing all my clocks to look forward to when I go home...... :eek:
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and the curtains have started fading as we speak. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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and the curtains have started fading as we speak. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Bugger the curtains, Steve....I'm worried about my poor i30 copping the extra sun and fading the paint.... :p
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Hey rusty, i30's up here a used to all that extra sun as it bakes the paint and makes it tougher. :deserted:
But my i30 is pampered and kept out of the sun most times.
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I have changing all my clocks to look forward to when I go home...... :eek:
:brilliant: I like that one Rusty :rofl:
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What about 1 hour less of lying there awake because the wifes snoring is so loud..there has to be upsides...
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What about 1 hour less of lying there awake because the wifes snoring is so loud..there has to be upsides...
You may end up sleeping very soundly....on the couch, after she looks over your shoulder and see's this post.... :lol:
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What about 1 hour less of lying there awake because the wife's snoring is so loud..there has to be upsides...
You may end up sleeping very soundly....on the couch, after she looks over your shoulder and See's this post.... :lol:
i snore in bed like a freight train,the wife sleeps like a baby on the couch. :disapp: :wacko:
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What about 1 hour less of lying there awake because the wife's snoring is so loud..there has to be upsides...
You may end up sleeping very soundly....on the couch, after she looks over your shoulder and See's this post.... :lol:
i snore in bed like a freight train,the wife sleeps like a baby on the couch. :disapp: :wacko:
Is that the truth, of so, do you often get drowsy during the day........................ Oh no, I've switched into nurseeee mode. I am at work AAAaaaaaqgggghhhhh
Anyhow, answer in a PM if ya wants to and I will do long distance consultation. Don't worry about the invoice I do special rates for colonials :goodjob: :goodjob: :goodjob:
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Dear Nurse Asa, I suffer from sleep apnea, and often get drowsy during the day....what do you recommend? :undecided: