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Post by KTJ on Oct 5, 2019 19:08:58 GMT 10
I open this thread expecting to read something about daylight saving...
...and all I see is a “Display Post” button.
Oh well, such is life, eh?
Anyway, daylight saving is soooooo yesterday.
We did it in New Zealand a week ago.
But then, no surprises there, because Australia is always behind the times compared to New Zealand.
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Post by pim on Oct 5, 2019 19:20:12 GMT 10
You and your silly league tables. I've never encountered a New Zealander that's such a cultural cringer. Most Kiwis I've met in my life, whether socially or as work colleagues or simply in the course of everyday life seem a lot more together. Who gives a shit whether the Kiwis have daylight saving before NSW, Tas, SA or the ACT. Qld, the NT and WA don't bother with it anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2019 19:28:16 GMT 10
NZer's should be doing more to save brain cells....its embarrassing as Australians have to lower their IQ when having a conversation with a Kiwi....  |
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Post by KTJ on Oct 5, 2019 19:29:59 GMT 10
Yeah, the people of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia think their curtains will fade faster if they adopt daylight saving (chuckle).
Almost as silly as those gullible folks who think they'll be burned and tortured for all eternity if they don't believe the god delusion inside their minds is a real god and bow down to that god and pray to thin air and all those other silly religious practices.
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Post by pim on Oct 5, 2019 19:41:53 GMT 10
In any case if I had my druthers I would effect a constitutional alteration whereby the power to determine the time in relation to the Prime Meridian in Greenwich in the UK was taken away from the Parliaments of the Australian States and a new subsection 51 (XL) was added to the Federal Constitution in Part 5 (Powers of the Parliament) vesting that power in the Commonwealth Parliament. The Commonwealth Parliament would thereby be empowered to enact a single time zone for the whole of Australia. There are lots of precedents for this. China is one single time zone and so is Western Europe. The UK, Ireland and Portugal are an hour behind but you can travel from Madrid to Warsaw and still be in the same time zone. Given that Beijing has the same time as Perth I wouldn't select that as Australian standard time. However Tokyo's time is an hour ahead of Beijing - and therefore it's also an hour ahead of Perth and an hour behind Sydney - and represents the ideal standard time for Australia. As things currently stand, ignoring daylight saving, there is a two hour time difference between the Australian east coast and the west coast. If we took the meridian that passes through the centre of the island continent we could determine that to be the Australian standard, with a fudge factor either side of one hour. Which would place the whole of Australia in a similar time zone to most of our trading partners. Fudge factors are OK. SA is the Fudge Factor State par excellence with its silly 30 minute difference from the eastern states. With daylight saving the number of time zones within Australia increases to five. Very clever ... not.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2019 5:49:10 GMT 10
Are "druthers" like blinds or sumpthin'....?
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Post by KTJ on Oct 6, 2019 7:53:31 GMT 10
Do did youse Aussies (with the exception of the silly Queenslanders, Northern Territorians and Western Australians) enjoy having an hour less sleep and ending up jetlagged?
On the opposite side of The Ditch, we sorted out the slight jetlag problem by last Monday morning.
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Post by pim on Oct 6, 2019 10:04:15 GMT 10
Are "druthers" like blinds or sumpthin'....? To have your druthers = you'd rather have Geddit? No? Never mind  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2019 10:27:17 GMT 10
My ol' aunty had a case of druthers complaint of just sitting around in the dark being gloomy like ...we we re forced to open up the blinds and windows to let some light and air in...  |
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Post by pim on Oct 6, 2019 10:44:33 GMT 10
Coz she "druther" keep the blinds and windows closed?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2019 21:43:56 GMT 10
Somethin' like that...now I am full time beach bum...I like daylight saving..
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2019 13:37:03 GMT 10
With daylight saving the number of time zones within Australia increases to five. Very clever ... not. And isn't it a pain listening to ABC News Radio (or whatever they have rebranded it as) when they rattle off all the times across each capital before reading the headlines? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2019 13:41:48 GMT 10
Yeah, the people of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia think their curtains will fade faster if they adopt daylight saving (chuckle). It's mainly those in the northern latitudes of those states who object. They don't have the protracted shortened daylight hours of winter that the southerners have and hence feel no need for it. Out in Western Qld. where I work, sunset is later anyway. |
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Post by KTJ on Sept 26, 2020 12:43:16 GMT 10
The clocks “spring foward” one hour at 2am tomorrow morning (Sunday) in New Zealand…
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Post by Gort on Oct 1, 2022 9:55:54 GMT 10
The bees are buzzing around the wisteria - the seasons come and go. The clocks move forward tomorrow morning and the toxic trio supported by feckless Fat are still carrying on like pork chops. Such is the cycle of life.  |
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Post by caskur on Oct 2, 2022 5:30:19 GMT 10
Not in WA..
TOO HOT FOR stupid daylight saving ... it fries poor kids getting out of school in the hottest part of the day.
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Post by Stellar on Oct 2, 2022 6:27:00 GMT 10
I wish they would have a referendum on this ... to change daylight saving to the winter months which is more logical because that's when we actually need it!  |
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Post by caskur on Oct 2, 2022 7:07:58 GMT 10
Why is it needed at any time?
It isn't needed at all.
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Post by Stellar on Oct 2, 2022 7:54:48 GMT 10
Saves energy costs in winter.
Also kids coming home from after school activities in the dark.
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Post by caskur on Oct 2, 2022 16:10:27 GMT 10
Saves energy costs in winter. Also kids coming home from after school activities in the dark. Two situations that aren't really a priority to upset a whole society, a whole country. |
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