Turn your clocks back 1 hour tonight.

[geopol]

Thank goodness...DST has gone on for far too long this year.

[tam]

I wish we had it in Qld.

[jody]

sad to see it end

[fat]

I have been waiting for this hour's sleep for more than 6 months.

[tam]

LOL

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Apr 6, 2013 17:15:59 GMT 10 tam said:

I wish we had it in Qld.

At least we get to enjoy longer daylight up here in the winter months, Tam.
I work out west and the sun sets 20 minutes later than on the coast so it is almost DST for me year round

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I guess I'll go and change the clocks later. It's a tedious job because there are so many clocks on three levels. Sometimes I don't finish the last clock till about a week after dls ends.

Actually we should be starting dls now, not ending. We don't need dls in summer but we do in winter - it's only logical but of course not to the powers that be.

[slartibartfast]

No, we need it in summer, I love coming home and being able to go for a swim when the sun's still up.

[Deleted]

The sun is still up after 8 pm ... surely that's late enough to take a swim!

[slartibartfast]

I get home at six, have dinner, do my jobs, kids in bed by 8, then I'm too buggered.

[Deleted]

So when actually do you swim??

[geopol]

I always relished the mornings before we had DS because I could make more use of the light before I went to work. After work I was more tired and it was too hot or the sandflies etc made things not so pleasant. I could accept, reluctantly, DS of only three months, but six is bloody outrageous.

[jody]

agreed Stellar. It should be all year round but would be even better in winter.

[Deleted]

Daylight saving ended in New Zealand early this morning too.

I'm currently sitting on the Kaitaki interisland ferry departing Picton heading for Wellington. My brother is sitting next to me and he just commented that he normally doesn't have to worry about daylight saving, because he lives in Queensland where they worry about carpets and curtains fading, cows getting upset, the state residents being too dumb to comprehend the concept of changing clocks by one hour, etc.

NOTE: My brother is actually a Kiwi, but he has been a temporary Queenslander for the past few decades.

[jody]

If he has been here for 30 years KTJ, he is an Aussie and a Qld'er

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Apr 7, 2013 11:20:18 GMT 10 jody said:

If he has been here for 30 years KTJ, he is an Aussie and a Qld'er

My brother just said he isn't a Queenslander, or an Aussie, because he hasn't yet had the brain-size-reducing operation and he also doesn't have Aussie citizenship or an Aussie passport.

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BTW....we're currently half-way across Cook Strait and it has turned into a bit of a thrill-ride due to the southerly and the largish swell.

[jody]

Then he should move back to kiwiland

[Salem]

Agreed Stellar and Geopol (ok, wtf?). KTJ, you know damn well the sensible objections to it in Qld have absolutely nothing to do with carpets or curtains. If the Cancer Fund are against DLS, they must have a reason. But facts, common sense and reason are lost on empty-headed people. Face it. Your brother is a Qlder through and through. He relinquished his homeland long ago.

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Apr 7, 2013 20:04:53 GMT 10 Salem said:

Your brother is a Qlder through and through. He relinquished his homeland long ago.

How can my brother be a Queenslander (and/or an Aussie) when he has NEVER held or been eligible to hold an Australian Passport and the ONLY passport he has ever held has been a New Zealand Passport?

[jody]

He has lived here for 30 years KTJ....regardless of whether he has an aussie passport or not. My mother didn't become a citizen until she was in her early 50's....she arrived in Oz when she was 10. She still considered herself an Australia though.

[geopol]

Jody, I have lived in this small seaside town for 42 years and I am not a local. I was not born here which seems to be the important factor. The blow-ins as we used to be referred to outnumber the "locals" so it is not an issue. We have New Zealanders living here, some for many years and still they are referred to as New Zealanders or Kiwis. Europeans are still often called migrants and those coloured ones as Asians, Indians etc. I find it hard to see, after having been to NZ a few times, why any one from there would want to be Australian anyway.

[jody]

Geo I find it hard to believe anyone from NZ would want to live in QLD
no offence to the QLD'ers but the difference between the two are like night and day.

Why aren't you a local if you've lived there for 42 years? I would say you're as local as their corner pub.

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Whenever my brother travels overseas with his Aussie mates from Queensland, he travels on his NZ Passport (the only passport he is eligible for due to him being a Kiwi, not an Aussie) and his mates travel on their Australian Passports. Entering many countries, my brother is welcomed as a Kiwi without a visa and given automatic entry, whereas his Aussie mates are required to obtain prior visas before turning up.

So why would my brother want to become an Aussie and have all those additional restrictions placed on him if he was using an Aussie Passport?

[jody]

He may not have an Aussie passport but he has lived here long enough to be considered an Aussie.....sorry KTJ.....I know you have a pretty serious dislike for all things Australian but thems are just the facts