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.

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

Leon

[Crater101 (Warren)]

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 (Andrew)]

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

[h0ughy (David)]

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

Originally Posted by 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.

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

Leon

[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 (Poppy)]

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

[Leo.G (Leo)]

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

Leon

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. 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.

Just get rid of it I say.

Leon

[PhilTas (Phil)]

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

[Nikolas (Nik)]

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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 (Joe)]

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

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Don’t forget to ask your cows what they think

[Leo.G (Leo)]

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 (Renato)]

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 (Alan)]

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!