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Title: Daylight saving
Post by: Bones on October 25, 2005, 08:09:35 pm
Daylight saving begins here in less than a week when we put our clocks forward one hour.

Currently, the boards don
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: missioncontrol on October 25, 2005, 08:14:14 pm

I'm not sure when we set our clocks but we will be setting them back one hour whenever that is
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Zakk on October 25, 2005, 08:15:40 pm
We ain't havin none of yer crazy awwssie-farmer daylightsavunstimes shenaniguns!!
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Grasshopper on October 25, 2005, 08:19:29 pm
I always think daylight saving is a dumb idea. You gain an hour of sunshine in the morning when most people are either working or travelling to work and thus don't care, and you lose an hour's light in the evening when most people have their leisure time and want the extra light.

Makes to sense to me.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: cdbrown on October 25, 2005, 09:05:09 pm
Crazy thing is not all of Aus will be under daylight savings.  Stupid WA government yet again creating a wider time gap between us and the rest of the country. 

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I always think daylight saving is a dumb idea. You gain an hour of sunshine in the morning when most people are either working or travelling to work and thus don't care, and you lose an hour's light in the evening when most people have their leisure time and want the extra light.
umm what??
You start an extra hour earlier in the morning (ie reducing the morning sunlight) and finish an hour earlier in the afternoon meaning you have an extra hour of sunlight at night.  I wish we had it here.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: DrewKaree on October 25, 2005, 11:12:16 pm
They're changing the typical day/week they move the clocks here in the America's this year.  Or are they enacting that next year?  Well, I know they're gonna change the days.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Grasshopper on October 26, 2005, 06:23:48 am
Crazy thing is not all of Aus will be under daylight savings.  Stupid WA government yet again creating a wider time gap between us and the rest of the country. 

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I always think daylight saving is a dumb idea. You gain an hour of sunshine in the morning when most people are either working or travelling to work and thus don't care, and you lose an hour's light in the evening when most people have their leisure time and want the extra light.
umm what??
You start an extra hour earlier in the morning (ie reducing the morning sunlight) and finish an hour earlier in the afternoon meaning you have an extra hour of sunlight at night.  I wish we had it here.

Doh, I was looking at it from a UK perspective. I forgot that you guys have your summers and winters reversed. When we change our clocks very shortly (can't remember the exact date) we will get an extra hour's light in the morning.

Basically what I'm saying is that I think we should be permanently on the summer arrangement.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: missioncontrol on October 26, 2005, 07:33:45 am
I set set it a half hour either way and leave it alone.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Ed_McCarron on October 26, 2005, 08:01:55 am
You gain an hour of sunshine in the morning when most people are either working or travelling to work and thus don't care, and you lose an hour's light in the evening when most people have their leisure time and want the extra light.

Blame Ben Franklin.  Wasn't it his idea?  Something to do with more hours of sunlight for people to work?  There was no leisure back then. :)
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Bones on October 26, 2005, 08:12:16 am
You guys live in strange lands.

In Aus the whole point of daylight saving is to gain daylight in the evenings. In summer the sun is up at 5:00 am and setting around 8:00pm.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Stingray on October 26, 2005, 09:34:03 am
Pretty sure the ---smurfing--- clocks get set back a ---smurfing--- hour this ---smurfing--- weekend.

I hate ---smurfing--- daylight savings.

-S
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: missioncontrol on October 26, 2005, 02:14:55 pm
---Drew---


daylight saving time sucks in the summer for me seeing how I sleep in the evenings
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: markrvp on October 26, 2005, 02:25:37 pm
Crazy thing is not all of Aus will be under daylight savings.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: str1der on October 26, 2005, 02:48:01 pm
I always think daylight saving is a dumb idea. You gain an hour of sunshine in the morning when most people are either working or travelling to work and thus don't care, and you lose an hour's light in the evening when most people have their leisure time and want the extra light.

Makes to sense to me.

It would probably make more sense to you if you had kids that walk to school in the morning. It's not a good thing for them to do in the dark.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Stingray on October 26, 2005, 02:49:08 pm
Kinda sucks to have to drive to work with the headlights on, but I'd still rather have that extra daylight in the evening.

-S
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Bones on October 27, 2005, 07:27:01 am
Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Stingray on October 27, 2005, 09:37:14 am
Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun.

That will be job 2 for my army of killer robots, right after world domination.

-S
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: markrvp on October 27, 2005, 09:40:43 am
Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun.

That will be job 2 for my army of killer robots, right after world domination.

-S


But I thought your robots were solar powered   ???
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: menace on October 27, 2005, 09:45:49 am
A Hoi Hoi I too would like to extinguish the rays of that oppressive yellow demon.  Let me know if you need a sun blocking device--used only briefly...
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Bones on October 27, 2005, 09:48:10 am
But Sir!  Every plant and tree will die, owls will deafen us with incessant hooting...the town's sundial will be useless.
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: Stingray on October 27, 2005, 10:25:35 am
Those fellows at Radio Shack said I was mad, but who's laughing now?!?!?

-S
Title: Re: Daylight saving
Post by: CCM on October 27, 2005, 10:37:17 am
They're changing the typical day/week they move the clocks here in the America's this year.  Or are they enacting that next year?  Well, I know they're gonna change the days.

It's not changing until 2007.