I live in sunny Queensland. There are more problems with DST than fading curtains. All that extra sunlight makes the water in our lakes evaporate faster! We can't afford to lose all that water. It also breaks up marriages becuse DST messes up the times when the couples feel romantic.
Cheers Donald Christensen 0423 102 090 If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:40 AM, John Pickard <john.pick...@bigpond.com> wrote: > Good morning from sunny Sydney, > > If you think that Europe has a problem with DST, you should try Australia > which can only be described as a dog's breakfast. Queensland steadfastly > refuses to go on DST because the extra couple of hours of daylight fades > the curtains. Although we have a nominal three time zones (AEST, ACST, > AWST) there are a couple of towns / villages with times artificially set to > be outside the zones they live in. This was originally for commercial > reasons, making it easier to do business in adjoining states. These days, > such changes are pointless and unnecessary with the internet, but seem to > be retained for no particular reason other than to be different. On top of > this is DST in various states. As a consequence in summer you can meet more > than five different times in Australia which means that on a long trip you > can spend a lot of time changing the clocks in cameras, etc. > > Most of us in the southern states like DST (regardless of its effect on > our curtains!) and look forward to it at the end of winter. Equally, we > don't like when it ends. > > Of course the funniest thing about DST are the arguments of opponents who > seem to think that the 24 hour clock is some immutable thing handed down > from the gods, rather than a convenient human construct. And if you change > the time, then the world as we all know it will come to a shuddering end. > These people simply don't understand that the only thing that changes is > the "time" you get out of bed. Although I mostly work from 0700 to 1800 or > thereabouts, I have done fieldwork in Antarctica and Patagonia where we > changed to later starts and finishes because of the extreme winds in the > morning. Why start at 0700 and get hammered by wind all morning when you > can start at 1200 (when the wind has died down), and work the same number > of hours through the afternoon and evening relatively wind-free? So we had > breakfast at 1100, hit the ice at 1200 and worked through until about 2200 > with almost no wind. Of course, this is only really feasible in high > latitudes in summer with very extended daylight hours. But it does show > that "time" as shown on a clock face is often irrelevant. > > > Cheers, John > > John Pickard > john.pick...@bigpond.com > > -----Original Message----- From: Isabella McFedries > Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2016 4:02 PM > To: sundial@uni-koeln.de > Subject: Re: Permanent DST > > > In message <CACOUaYqB2vmbu9L9Tcs9BSv_YQmn-WsVEuL89cX9k9RACyTimA@mail. > gmail.com> > Dan-George Uza <cerculdest...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear group, >> >> We are witnessing a few interesting developments! After Turkey decided a >> few months ago to remain on Daylight Saving Time all year round, Hungary >> is >> now considering to do the same. >> >> http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/hungary-mulls-stayi >> ng-on-daylight-saving-time-all-year-round/ >> >> If the measure passes, neighboring countries Hungary and Romania will >> share >> the same official time for half of the year although they are located in >> different time zones (CET and EET respectively). For eastern Hungary the >> sun sets at about 15:40 during winter, i.e more than an hour ahead of >> Paris, which shares its time zone. >> >> I'm wondering: aren't EU member states supposed to equally follow DST by >> law? >> >> >> Dan Uza >> > > > Hi, Dan > > You are PARTLY correct - but (as I understand it), all EU member countries > must CHANGE their clocks on the SAME date, although they still keep their > individual Time-zones. For example, UK and Ireland are on GMT, whereas > France/Germany are on CET, and countries such as Greece on CET + 1 hour. > > There are other examples of locations which are on PERMANENT 'Daylight > Saving' time - for example here in Canada, the province of Saskatchewan > should really be in the 'Mountain' zone (GMT-7), but always STAYS in the > 'Central' zone (GMT-6) and so does NOT change its clocks twice a year. > > I am afraid that these things are always for the Politicians to decide! > > > Sincerely, > > Isabella McFedries. > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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