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Day light savings is stupid especially having it during summer which is when the daylight lasts longer anyway. If its so important to have it why not do it in winter when it could serve a purpose? Also why do people say its great, more time in the shed after work. Have people forgotten the fact we have electricity. Alot of people up here ignore it because they dont see the point. Queensland dont have daylight savings and yet people manage fine, so why must these southern states insist on having it?
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LOVE daylight saving
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Daylight savings is OK, you get used to it and have more sunlight for leisure in the afternoons.
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So you all mow your lawn cause there is light ...when the clock says people will be watching the news and trying to have tea ....top stuff .I'm a shift worker so its of no relevance....but people have the courtesy to mow when people will be least affected noise wise .if your state needs a time adjustment just make it permanent .the rest of any benefits you gain are just personal and a joke really .and those that get more time in their shed hmmm lightswitch ...and noise restrictions ? When they do it in qld I got to try to get to sleep with the sun up , yay .
Jokes aside I know it works for the south , but really believe you just need the permanent time adjustment ...enjoy it anyway southern friends .
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Hate daylight savings. When I went down Melbourne 2 years ago it threw my wife and I.
Running around Lygon Street at 8pm and it feels like it's 4pm. Ridiculous.
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Don't really like it. Makes it more uninspiring to get out of bed!
They should make it half an hour forward for the whole year and be done with it.
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without daylight savings it would be getting light at 330-400am..in the middle of summer.....the days are longer....its also why we cant have it in winter..if we did it would still be dark at 7am
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Miss it over here. I've heard all the BS excuses too.
Get up earlier - Sure, I'm happy to start work an hour early, you tell all the WA gov schools that they too will need to start early if they want their IT support. We need it in winter - there is often no light to 'save' in winter. Moving the clocks then results in dark mornings and dark nights. I want to walk/run/ride in the morning DLS means its dark - Well what the hell do you do during winter? My kids won't go to bed - Educate your kids and stop being lazy. I have a two year old, when its bed time its bed time, daylight or no daylight. Its hotter - yeah like its hotter because we move the earth closer to the sun.... ah no, a man made device says it is a different time, thats all. Quote:
They say they rise and fall with the sun, as there is loads of work to do... cool, no worries, so what difference does it make if we say its 4am instead of 5am? Oh how I could go on.
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Day light savings is awesome! I get to work at 7am and leave about 6pm, so why would I want extra light at the start of the day when I'm sleeping?
Yes, get home in the evening and have enough light until 9pm to mow the lawns, try the reversal and it's ilegal to make that noise early in the morning, plus why would I want to? I dislike the fact that when I go to QLD it's dark so early. Such a great climate, yet it's pitch black so early in the evening, yet you can't sleep past 6am as the sun is up so early. Why would the states with the majority of population want to bow to those in less populated state?
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i work security get up at 6am to got to work at finish at 8pm didnt realise it was even daylight savings or it was over means nothing to me
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if it was winter it would be dark at 9am like in paris. i spose up in the north of the state it would be a little different than sydney. |
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It certainly stuffs up my beero'clock !!!
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I love it and wish QLD had it. Time, time, time - gimme more!!
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Funny how those that have it enjoy it ...... those who don't, don't like it.
I love it and when it finishes you know the cold weather is close and the getting at home in the dark begins. Mowing lawns, doing some pottering around the garage or garden ...... just feels like there is so much more time to do things
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Here is an idea. How about just move the whole AEST time zone forward 30 minutes all year round. This will make us 1 hour ahead of SA/NT instead of 30 mins which would make it easier and no more mucking about with changing clocks. I now wait for all the reason from the southerners as to why this won't work including too cold and dark in the morning in winter (same day length) and the cows will freeze and there will be not enough sun....... ![]() Big picture, daylight saving suits below the tropic (even here why I live) but we are divided into states and most of QLD is above the tropic so we do not have daylight saving. I do agree that a really good way to solve most of the problems in QLD not just the daylight saving issue would be to move the QLD/NSW border about 200km further north.... ![]() |
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Would be a pain to live in Tweed Heads during this time. Most are too old they don't know what day it is anyways and inside the Bowling club you wouldn't know if it was day or night!
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I dont have any strong views either way. I'd be happy if we had it or not but I dont really see how it effects peoples lives to a great degree though. Do people mow their lawns at 8pm? Seems more psychological than anything.
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Yep got home this afternoon and managed to get the front and back lawns mowed before the rain is due to return tomorrow. Cant mow in the morning before work as I leave at 6am so to be able to do it in the afternoon is great.
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Its pretty cool, last week on Friday when I woke up at 5:30AM to get ready for work, it was daylight, Monday its like night.
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Even though there is only 1 hour difference, I still feel as if I'm jetlagged. It feels so weird being so light at like 8pm!
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playing in my big shed
Join Date: Sep 2005
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i have been living in qld for 15 years now and still miss daylight savings. i love it = more outside time after work.
qld has shorter days anyway because of position means there is very little twilight. the sun goes down and its dark not like the southern states where the light lingers longer. so i recon we should have daylight savings all year. every time i mention it at work i get shot down by the "locals" ![]()
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The reason why I love it is I grew up having late night BBQs on the balcony in the twilight, it means I can work on cars in the garage that DOESN'T have power, and I'm not driving/training and walking home in the dark. mind you putting it forward half hour permanently, would then mean I'm travelling to work in the dark during winter.
The reason I hate it? It throws off the cats and they have no clue what the hell is going on. Mind you, if the sun rose at 4 or 5 in the morning during summer, THAT would get up my nose, not because "oh noes sun I canne sleep", but because "Oh great sun" *cats running around causing a melarkey because the birds are tweeting* "Oh great, cats". Simple solution would be lock the cats in the shed, but I'd never here the end of that, from them OR Dave.
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You might want to check your history. In fact it was Sir Joh who first implemented daylight saving in QLD in only to receive such a huge push back that it was abandoned a year later. Then in 1989 Russell Cooper bought it back for a 3 year trial which lead to the 1992 referendum under Wayne Goss where it was voted out. Now I am aware that the concept of decisions "by the people for the people" rather than "OBEY what govco tells you" is somewhat foreign to a lot of Australians but up here despite the dilution by emigration from the south we still like to try and run our state in a way that suits Queenslanders..... |
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