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Eye
03-29-2009, 05:57 AM
Do you think we have any benefits from changing winter/summer time? Energy savings? Good mood?
IMHO it would be better to leave summer time for whole year. It makes day end later.
Connaught Ranger
03-29-2009, 06:06 AM
I was told the main reason for changing the time was for kids going to school so they travel in daylight and get home while its still light. Thats a good enough reason for me.
Arfah
03-29-2009, 06:08 AM
It allows the farmers more daylight too.
Arfah
03-29-2009, 06:09 AM
Mind you the clocks go back two months before the winter solstice but go forward three months after ?
futurepilot2004
03-29-2009, 06:09 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
Loads of theories on that page.
click
03-29-2009, 06:12 AM
In Soviet Russia, time change you!

Sorry, had to say it ;)


For real though, I agree with Connaught
Eye
03-29-2009, 07:44 AM
I was told the main reason for changing the time was for kids going to school so they travel in daylight and get home while its still light. Thats a good enough reason for me.
So, let's leave summer time for whole year. I find it very depressive when we switch from summer to winter time and make day shorter in this way.
ltrowley
03-29-2009, 08:29 AM
I turned up for work an hour early today because of bloody DS. Pricks. Not a bloody word of it all week. Then I open today's paper

"DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!LOL!!!SURPRISE!!"

I got into work and starting to ring people asking why the **** they wern't there. Great start to a **** day.
digrar
03-29-2009, 08:33 AM
I was doing a load of bomb at a mine 700km away from my plant last year, I knew it was happening, but cocked up the timings, went forward instead of back, showed up to the mess with 4 other sheepish looking people at 4 in the morning, one being the cook :) at least we got a hot brekky.
Connaught Ranger
03-29-2009, 09:30 AM
So, let's leave summer time for whole year. I find it very depressive when we switch from summer to winter time and make day shorter in this way.

Gee sorry to hear about that But this is not about only you.:roll:
rolls
03-29-2009, 09:44 AM
Its daylight at 6am. Its daylight at 7PM.

Keep your crappy DST infidels.
Try&die
03-29-2009, 09:48 AM
Money ofcourse...
Currahee 1SG
03-29-2009, 10:08 AM
It's the little things in life for me.....when do I get to get a beer.
Geezah
03-29-2009, 10:40 AM
Richmond, IN stopped changing their clocks for around 30yrs, then a few years ago they decided they would go back to changing their clocks. It was nice but odd.
olebentlarsen
03-29-2009, 10:48 AM
I turned up for work an hour early today because of bloody DS. Pricks. Not a bloody word of it all week. Then I open today's paper

"DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!LOL!!!SURPRISE!!"

I got into work and starting to ring people asking why the **** they wern't there. Great start to a **** day.

shouldnt you be an hour late?
digrar
03-29-2009, 10:53 AM
It's the end of daylight savings here, not the start.
ltrowley
03-29-2009, 10:53 AM
shouldnt you be an hour late?


Oh how stupid of me. Seasons are the other way around 'down here'.
capixaba
03-29-2009, 11:41 AM
Oh how stupid of me. Seasons are the other way around 'down here'.
They do the same here in Brazil ...we went back one hour to "winter time" recently. I can't think what purpose it really serves here ...likely was based on agricultural workers making the best of the daylight. Mind here it's either broad daylight or pitch black and you get what a Scottish mate of mine refered to as "dark o'clock".
Ulytau
03-29-2009, 12:25 PM
for f*** my sleep :bash:
Arfah
03-29-2009, 12:29 PM
There's no daylight savings time in Afghanistan though. One day I was three and a half hours ahead, the next four and a half.

Must be a b1tch harvesting the poppies !?
Eye
03-29-2009, 12:38 PM
I can't think what purpose it really serves here ...likely was based on agricultural workers making the best of the daylight.
Farmers don't have to bother about the exact time. They just could start his work after sunrise and finish it before the sunset. They don't have any bosses checking their working time.
olebentlarsen
03-29-2009, 02:20 PM
Oh how stupid of me. Seasons are the other way around 'down here'.

haha, maybe i should just have looked at your location =D
digrar
03-29-2009, 09:13 PM
Farmers don't have to bother about the exact time. They just could start his work after sunrise and finish it before the sunset. They don't have any bosses checking their working time.


What they do have is receival points for grain that work to timings, milk trucks that show up at a certain time to get milk to processing points, stock auctions that run on a time schedule etc etc.
Connaught Ranger
03-30-2009, 04:14 AM
Farmers don't have to bother about the exact time. They just could start his work after sunrise and finish it before the sunset. They don't have any bosses checking their working time.

Maybe back in the middle ages, but in the real modern world time is very relevant!:roll:
PeterRJG
03-30-2009, 04:26 AM
It fades curtains...true story. :D
digrar
03-30-2009, 05:13 AM
Just how close to the QLD border are you?
PeterRJG
03-30-2009, 06:18 AM
Just how close to the QLD border are you?

Too close.

About 80k in a straight line, 120 or so by car.
matthew.manhorn
03-30-2009, 06:51 AM
I envy the Scandinavians sice they only have few hours of light while fvcking in their rooms with hot blonde chicks for 12+ hours during night time....
Kippari
03-30-2009, 07:35 AM
I envy the Scandinavians sice they only have few hours of light while fvcking in their rooms with hot blonde chicks for 12+ hours during night time....

It's not very nice here, when the sun is up for about 6 hrs a day.:|
On the other hand, in summer it's up for about 18-20 hrs a day.
Eye
03-30-2009, 10:04 AM
It's not very nice here, when the sun is up for about 6 hrs a day.:|
On the other hand, in summer it's up for about 18-20 hrs a day.
It's ideal circumstances for Manic Depression disease p-)
el borracho
03-30-2009, 12:51 PM
Richmond, IN stopped changing their clocks for around 30yrs, then a few years ago they decided they would go back to changing their clocks. It was nice but odd.

The entire state of Arizona doesn't observe daylight savings time. So for part of the year they are off from the rest of their time zone.
budgie
03-30-2009, 10:04 PM
We change time because Obama promised change!

Actually a lot of countries do without it. Japan doesn't have it and equatorial regions barely need it as the day length is pretty much constant year round. NZ still has it and it makes a big difference in summer with sundown around 8pm. In Japan the summer could do with it because it gets light around 4am in Hokkaido!