Get rid of this Daylight Saving rubbish

[leon]

Hi Guys, I don't know if I am the only one here, but I am so over this Daylight Saving rubbish, Its about time they go rid of it for good I reckon.

Anyone else here have an opinion on the matter.:shrug:

Well at least if they have to have it make it shorter and cut a couple of months off it.:thumbsup:

Leon :thumbsup:

[Crater101]

No mate, you're not the only one. I've never been a fan of it, right back from when I was a teenager.

[RB]

I think they should make it optional.
Leave it up to the individual.

:thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

You need to become a Queenslander, thier blinds don't fade

[skysurfer]

I fully agree. Daylight Shift Time, as savings is not the correct word because it does not save one second of daylight, but only shifts it by one hour.
These stupid bi-annually clock changes are useless. We have it as well in the EU, with the difference that it is enabled in all EU states, unlike Australla.
When we went to Australia last week, we had to change clocks by ten hours forward, but next month when we return we have to change clocks by only eight hours backward, because in AU (NSW+VIC only) there is no DST anymore while there is in the EU.

[FlashDrive]

Nah .... keep it going forever cause I get my Pension an hour earlier than you ... just saying :D
Col ( Poppy )

[Leo.G]

I don't live to a watch (yet own 8 or 10).
I hate daylight savings, it makes my grass grow longer, maybe that's me not mowing but I blame the shift in time.

[TrevorW]

WA, doesn't have it we don't need it :)

[sharkbite]

I'm genuinely curious as to why you feel this way?

[leon]

Well, firstly I am aware that there is no extra time in the day and my curtains don't fade any quicker than anyone else's.:shrug::lol: and some bright spark decoded to call 6.00 am 5.00 am and visa versa.

I get up 4.45 am seven days a week and do what i do, but in the Autumn heading toward winter it is still bloody dark at 7am.

Summer I admit it gets light a bit earlier, and i can do my thing at about 5.30am but then it stays light till 9.30 pm in mid summer.:sadeyes:

Just get rid of it I say.:)

Leon:thumbsup:

[PhilTas]

Come back to the NT, Leon.
We don't have it here....

[Nikolas]

Love daylight savings time in December through to March. If they stopped it start of MArch then I couldn't care less. Starting in april is too long.

But getting rid of DL time is an absolute NO, I don't want a sunrise at 4.30 am

[TrevorW]

Daylight Saving Time (DST) was primarily introduced during World War I as a wartime measure to conserve fuel and energy by extending daylight hours during the evening, reducing the need for artificial lighting. Since then a number of different reasons have been applied to support the need for DST, however do we really need it :)

[alpal]

Yes - using Stellarium - location Melbourne -
if I go to 22nd December the Sun starts to rise at about 5am.
Without DST it would rise at 4am.

Without DST -
if people woke up in the morning at 7am they would have missed 3 hours of daylight.
It's about how much daylight people want to waste.

I liked it when I was working and had a house in summer.
I could come home after work at 5.30pm - have a cup of tea -
and then mow the lawns.
That would then give me a free weekend to do as I pleased -
no lawn mowing required -
so I support DST.

cheers
Allan

[EpickCrom]

I agree with you Leon. That's why us Sandgropers voted against it:thumbsup:

[Camelopardalis]

Don’t forget to ask your cows what they think :rofl:

[Leo.G]

For some people with some health issues just having to get up that 1 hour earlier for an appointment can be a REAL pain.
I don't live to a clock, I don't sleep regardless of how much or what sleeping medication I take and when I do sleep I rarely get 8 hours per week in total. When doctors and specialists want to make early morning appointments in places which are a 2 hour drive it can be beyond a pain.Maybe living in the city with better public transport would make it easy, I can't stand cities, I spent too long living and working in them when I was younger.

[Renato1]

Daylight Saving is only really a major problem for recreational astronomers who work for a living. It means that if they want to go viewing the night before a work day, they have an hour's less viewing time (unless they get permission from their boss to come in an hour late for work).

I think Daylight Saaving is healthy.
It forces most people to do activities with an extra hour of sunlight, which means more Vitamin D in the body, than they would hAVe had.

Also, we're a country that likes going to the beach. With Daylight Saving people have more opportunity to go to the beach after a hot day's work.
Regards,
Renato

[alan meehan]

i agree iam always forgeting what time it is in qld when i want to ring my family a hour behind nsw so now i have two clocks one nsw time and one qld time for reference

[bojan]

When I lived in Europe (there was no Daylight saving there and then), the company I worked for simply started earlier during summer..

No confusion whatsoever!

[Leo.G]

Working as a forklift technician (TNT Forklifts) in the 80s and 90s in Sydney (Mascot) at the end of daylight savings the job got dangerous. Heavy machinery and dark don't mix, especially when you're crawling under something which if it dropped/fell off the forklift you picked it up with and had to get under with a torch to see it was properly supported (big forklifts lifting little things) it was instant death in near pitch black (if it wouldn't move in the yard). Even just moving the forklifts around in the yard was a major hazard because most don't have lighting, again, hit someone with one and they escape with serious injury at best. We had good lighting in the factory, not so in the yard.

We also did military vehicles and equipment from the airport around the corner, mostly heavy machinery but anything with hydraulics and an engine/electric drive.

[OzEclipse]

Now that I'm retired, I have created a new time zone, JEST or Joe's Eastern Standard Time. The time zone boundary and my property boundary are the coincident. Clocks inside the house remain set at UT+10 + 10 year round. The idea came from my friends the Ogilvy Family who own a property in South Australia next to Cameron Corner. Their property is bigger than Luxembourg and so, with infrequent contact with the outside world, they figured they could have their own, constant time zone rather than SA time.

There are some practical reasons for this, I am not a complete Luddite. I have a beautiful Seiko Quartz clock bought by my parents in the 1970's. Brass body and analogue hands.

A single AA battery lasts about 3-4 years and it only loses a few seconds over that period. The time change knob was missing when I came into possession of it after my parents passed. So setting it means waiting until the time catches up to the clock. I can only be bothered to do this every 3-4 years when I have to replace the battery.

I have another faceless wall clock (arms only) stuck to my wall with a removable adhesive. I assembled the clock from a clock kit I bought online. Again, I can't be bothered detaching the clock until the battery needs to be replaced every few years.

Finally I can easily add an hour during summer months. I moderate another astronomy forum and work with a team of moderators and admins scattered around the world. Consequently, I am frequently doing mental arithmetic working out who is sleeping and who is awake on the team or setting delayed publication of my astronomy quizzes to publish at midnight, 1st of the month in California ensuring that it's the new month for everyone bar a couple of members in Hawaii.

Subtracting one hour is the easiest of the calculations I do.
:rofl::lol::rofl::lol:

Joe
posted at 15:19 JEST

[Leo.G]

You don't keep a naughty and nice list or have a beard too?
Sorry, I couldn't help myself!
The arithmetic is quite easy and my son somewhat annoys people all around the world he chats online with (text, he can't hear/Discord) by knowing their time close to the minute. He even told some American online acquaintances recently it was their daylight savings and they themselves didn't know that.

[snowflake]

Sage wisdom re daylight saving time...

[By.Jove]

Simple... get up an hour later according to the clock; you get to sleep in, every day !

[skysurfer]

DST does not add any extra sunlight. It is us who are addicted to numbers which the clocks show. Just getting up and going to bed earlier solves this problem and any individual can do this whatever amount of minutes he wants to get up earlier.
Forcing a twice a year clock change is indeed wat TO says. great rubbish !

[Renato1]

Daylight Saving does add an extra hour of sunlight, because the governments and employers force workers to go to work an hour earlier, and then they have an extra hour of sunlight when they finish work.The same applies to students.

True, in non-Daylight Saving States, people could get up an hour earlier and wander around in sunlight to get their extra hour of sunlight before going to work. But I suspect that would be a tiny minority.
Regards,
Renato

[JeniSkunk]

Growing up on the Gold Coast, dealing with DST was, and still is, an annoying routine.
Getting rid of DST should have been done decades ago by ACT, NSW and VIC, but political WON'Tpower in those states/territory, prevents that from happening.

[skysurfer]

Magic ?

Never realize that the sun also rises an hour later which make darker mornings ?

Well, politicians are too dumb to underdtand that.