[Lakes]

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.

[asathorny]

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....   

[Surferdude]

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.

[meehalych]

Can anyone enlarge upon this meaning "Daylight savings"? What is so special about it?

[asathorny]

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   

[Dazzler]

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..

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)

[Jack]

We don't want it up here in Nth Qland.. It makes the curtains fade faster.   

[Ugly Mongrel]

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.

[Ugly Mongrel]

Blame Benjamin Franklin 

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html

[diablo]

We don't want it up here in Nth Qland.. It makes the curtains fade faster.   

Tee hee. 

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. 

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?

[Dazzler]

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

[Jack]

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.. 

[Ugly Mongrel]

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.. 

But all of us QUeenslanders know better, eh Jack

[neptune]

even though I like the daylight saving here in the west, I think it got voted out last year...

[Jack]

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 ... 

[Ultralights]

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.....

[Ugly Mongrel]

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

Jack relaxing on The Strand

[Jack]

Ya got the hats around the wrong way UM... 

[Ugly Mongrel]

Ya got the hats around the wrong way UM... 

You are a funny man, Jack    

[Jack]

I have been called worse UM... 

[meehalych]

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. 

[asathorny]

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   

[Lakes]

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

[Dazzler]

Yeah.. nice long evenings down here in summer (well after 9PM) 

[Surferdude]

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.
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.

[Doggie 1]

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...... 

[kittikat]

I love it.    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!   

[Dazzler]

There is one thing embarassing about daylight savings .. 

What used to happen when I first woke up in the morning   

Now happens when I am about to walk into my job 

[meehalych]

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.

[Doggie 1]

There is one thing embarassing about daylight savings .. 

What used to happen when I first woke up in the morning   

Now happens when I am about to walk into my job 

    You shave perhaps? Eat rice bubbles I guess   

get dressed??