Opinions on daylight saving?

[buggerlugs]

And if it bothers you that much, move 100ks south and you can have it.........

[Rodp]

Certainly affects me. A hint of sunlight and I'm awake. Without DLS, December would mean sunrise at ~4:30 and Rodrise at ~4.35 - doesn't mean I'd be going to bed an hour earlier at night, I tend to head off at ~11pm on average (when I'm not working...) regardless of daylight savings or not so it affords me the potential of an extra hour of sleep.

[BOSHOG]

there seems to be a lot of cranky people around here. i dont see the point with DLS, but i just change my clock and move on with life

[Bucknaked]

Originally Posted by loftie

Daylight savings is great for bbqs and beers after work....

I look forward to it every year... ;)

Hit the nail on the head. Also the fact that you can do stuff longer outside and get home from work and still have sometime in the arvo to do the things you need around the yard is a bonus as well. Not that I condone working on a school night, but it has it's benefits.

[Riksta]

I prefer Dave Barry's concept of "Weekday Morning Time" in preference to Daylight Savings:

instead of Daylight Savings Time, which nobody really understands anyway, is a new concept called Weekday Morning Time, whereby at 7 a.m. every weekday we go into a space- launch-style "hold" for two to three hours, during which it just remains 7 a.m. This way we could all wake up via a civilized gradual process of stretching and belching and scratching, and it would still be only 7 a.m. when we were ready to actually emerge from bed.

[mick457]

why bother at all its a waste imo
the time is the time why change it
may aswell be the same time where ever you are in the world
when will people learn to stop @@@@ing with things

[You Yangs]

Opinions on daylight saving?
Love it, any day light before 6am is a waste wherever you live!

[290v]

Love daylight saving so much time after work to get things done

[fmc351]

Originally Posted by You Yangs

Opinions on daylight saving?
Love it, any day light before 6am is a waste wherever you live!

Only if youre asleep.

[Gaz]

Wish we had it. Stupid freaking WA... people here really need to be told what to do at times and not given the option.

I can play golf after work with daylight savings... can't play before work without it.

[fmc351]

5:30, gorgeous morning. Time to go enjoy it.

[Bucknaked]

All this agro about 1 hour. I'd like to see DLS go to 2 hours. Then Queenslanders would really have something to whinge about.

[ubute]

I know from experience when we had the DSL trials in the late 80s in QLD as a kid on the farm, it was crap starting an hour earlier, having lunch an hour earlier, and thus working an hour earlier in the hottest part of the day. Working in the heat of the afternoon is bad enough, let alone when it begins earlier when it's even hotter.

If you can't shift your work hours an hour earlier, then just get up that extra hour earlier, get any crap done that you'd normally do after work, then when you do get home it's all free time anyway. It's still light till 7:30 in Brisbane for example in summer as it is.

[Riksta]

Originally Posted by 290v

Love daylight saving so much time after work to get things done

Unless you're like my work, which now stays open another half hour each day (except Thursdays where we're open an extra hour) to cater for the fact WA is now 2.5 hours behind, and QLD is half hour behind. Its already getting dark by finish time!

Lucky the next few days of work I'm on "early" shifts which mean 5:30/6pm style finishes, I might get to enjoy daylight savings!

I think daylight savings should become the normal time, and during winter when we're an hour behind we'll call it daylight spendings.

[TS50]

Originally Posted by ubute

I know from experience when we had the DSL trials in the late 80s in QLD as a kid on the farm, it was crap starting an hour earlier, having lunch an hour earlier, and thus working an hour earlier in the hottest part of the day. Working in the heat of the afternoon is bad enough, let alone when it begins earlier when it's even hotter.

If you can't shift your work hours an hour earlier, then just get up that extra hour earlier, get any crap done that you'd normally do after work, then when you do get home it's all free time anyway. It's still light till 7:30 in Brisbane for example in summer as it is.

In actual fact you work in a cooler part of the day
If you started normally at 8am, then during DLS youstart at what would have ben 7am, so it cooler. Then you knock of normally at 5pm, you will be knocking off at 4pm, really very little difference in temp
So all those arguments dont work
As for having lunch an hour ealier, in reality your body clock adjusts pretty damn quick to both sleep and meal times

[BENT_8]

I love daylight savings, as Polyal said, plenty of time to relax.

Only last night the wife and i took the kids down the pool for 45minutes of aqua arobics, 15 mins in the spa and then home for a bbq on dusk around 8pm.

As for the rest of the 'discussion' in the thread, i think there must be some merit to queenslanders having fear of DLS.
Although Flappist makes some sound statements, im not sure how many of his fellow queenslanders could understand them.

So not only do they fear daylight savings, they do so because someone else said so based on a theory they dont understand.

I wonder if we could still give QLD to the Japanese....

[Grippy]

I love it, its great coming home and still having a couple of hours of sunlight to enjoy. It marks the start of the season for backyard cricket and BBQ's for me

[T3man]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

I love daylight savings, as Polyal said, plenty of time to relax.

Only last night the wife and i took the kids down the pool for 45minutes of aqua arobics, 15 mins in the spa and then home for a bbq on dusk around 8pm.

As for the rest of the 'discussion' in the thread, i think there must be some merit to queenslanders having fear of DLS.
Although Flappist makes some sound statements, im not sure how many of his fellow queenslanders could understand them.

So not only do they fear daylight savings, they do so because someone else said so based on a theory they dont understand.

I wonder if we could still give QLD to the Japanese....

WOW ... all this from someone who lives in ... wait for it ... South Australia. Funniest thing posted so far today - keep it up.

[cs123]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

I wonder if we could still give QLD to the Japanese....

Better be careful. QLD and WA might just get offended and leave Australia and keep all their rocks to themselves.

[brismike]

Originally Posted by cs123

Better be careful. QLD and WA might just get offended and leave Australia and keep all their rocks to themselves.

Yes we might and then what would NSW, VIC & SA do?

Personally I don't want DLS in Brisbane. The Sun should be directly overhead at 12 noon. Changing the hands on a clock to move this natural phenomenom around is .. well . . unnatural. On a Hot summer evening in Brisbane all you want to see is the Sun going down . . not staying up and keeping the place hot.

However if the Southern States want to do it fine . . go for it, dosen't bother me.

[TS50]

Again the sun or the heat does not change if its DLS or not
Still the same heat
Still the same amount of daylight
So aruments about wanting to see the sun go down earlier are crap

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by TS50

Again the sun or the heat does not change if its DLS or not
Still the same heat
Still the same amount of daylight
So aruments about wanting to see the sun go down earlier are crap

LOL this is a classic thread, who would have thought DLS would cause so many "issues".

[irlewy86]

Originally Posted by TS50

Again the sun or the heat does not change if its DLS or not
Still the same heat
Still the same amount of daylight
So aruments about wanting to see the sun go down earlier are crap

Its not the "same heat" because it changes time in which the hottest part of the day. Do you honestley think that people don't take time of day into planning considerations. Hence why business hours are the times they are. e.g Lunch is at noon , when its hottest and therfore the most uncomfortable to do anything.

P.S If an arguement to see the sun go down earlier is crap than by proxy any arguement to have it up later is also crap.

[ubute]

Originally Posted by TS50

In actual fact you work in a cooler part of the day
If you started normally at 8am, then during DLS youstart at what would have ben 7am, so it cooler. Then you knock of normally at 5pm, you will be knocking off at 4pm, really very little difference in temp
So all those arguments dont work
As for having lunch an hour ealier, in reality your body clock adjusts pretty damn quick to both sleep and meal times

I think you misunderstood. Normally a lunch break for example might be between 12-1pm when it is starting to get to the hottest part of the day. With DSL, that break is shifted an hour earlier meaning working during that hot hour and having the break during a cooler hour.

[TS50]

Originally Posted by irlewy86

Its not the "same heat" because it changes time in which the hottest part of the day. Do you honestley think that people don't take time of day into planning considerations. Hence why business hours are the times they are. e.g Lunch is at noon , when its hottest and therfore the most uncomfortable to do anything.

P.S If an arguement to see the sun go down earlier is crap than by proxy any arguement to have it up later is also crap.

Well a couple of things here
The hottest part of the day is usually closer to 2 to 3 pm, not noon
And in actual fact due to daylight savings you are out of the heat earlier
i.e 5pm on DLS is actually only 4PM Queensland time, so in actual fact you are out of the heat earlier in the day
I mean you have your opinion and you are entitled to it, and whislt I dont agree with it, I do respect it, and I appologise for saying it was crap. But I do disagree with you saying that the heat of the day is a reason not to go to DLS, because if you actually look at it , if you had DLS, you would actually work in a lower temp overall

If I had time, I would show you a couple of temp graphs that might change your mind. But as I dont , we will remain to have differing opinions

[irlewy86]

Originally Posted by TS50

Well a couple of things here
The hottest part of the day is usually closer to 2 to 3 pm, not noon
And in actual fact due to daylight savings you are out of the heat earlier
i.e 5pm on DLS is actually only 4PM Queensland time, so in actual fact you are out of the heat earlier in the day
I mean you have your opinion and you are entitled to it, and whislt I dont agree with it, I do respect it, and I appologise for saying it was crap. But I do disagree with you saying that the heat of the day is a reason not to go to DLS, because if you actually look at it , if you had DLS, you would actually work in a lower temp overall

If I had time, I would show you a couple of temp graphs that might change your mind. But as I dont , we will remain to have differing opinions

Air temperature is higher later but UV intensity will be highest 12-2 and the least amount of shade is at noon.

As the old song goes, only mad dogs and Englishman go out in the midday sun.

[Ryan]

I love it. The extra daylight makes the day so much more enjoyable IMO. Not to mention the day seems to go faster too.

Sometimes I have my dinner around 8pm, because I forget there's an extra hour of daylight.

[BENT_8]

Originally Posted by T3man

WOW ... all this from someone who lives in ... wait for it ... South Australia. Funniest thing posted so far today - keep it up.

[kinksta]

It still doesn't make sense how we can just change the time as it suits, seems crazy haha but I love it.

DLS is great, it means at cricket training the batsmen can actually see incoming bouncers, so when I bowl one I don't hurt our best batsmen, DOH!

[redxm]

Im sick of it already. Anyone with kids will know what a PITA it is getting them to bed. Sun is still up at 7.30PM