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#1 ·
2am Sunday October 4th.
 
#2 ·
Whats that?
 
#8 ·
Had to replace the curtains when I lived down south due to the extra sunshine fading them.

Moved to Queensland so no longer have the problem. :grin2:
 
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#10 ·
Bl**dy Mexicans!!

And that's not all

1. Fading Curtains

Many rural (and urban) families tend to close the curtains when they get home from work to keep out the hot sun, then open them again after the sun goes down to let more air in. Given day light savings gives you one additional hour in the evening after work, this increases the fading of curtains. This may not actually be the case.

2. Cows giving less milk

Cows don't read clocks, so when they give their milk at 4am, each and every morning ready for the trucks to pick up by 4:30am to get into town for us to drink. When daylight savings starts the cow's 4am is now 3am and the cow gives less milk. That is – the reason cows produce less milk in DLS is because they don't know about the change. This may not actually be the case.

3. Killing children (The important one).

The kids get out of school at around 3:10pm to (in many cases) walk home. This is fine as the core UV times are 10am to 2pm. Of course in daylight savings they are heading out in the peak UV period (which is now 11 am to 3pm) causing more UV issues. Hats, creams etc help a little – but with 16 or 17 UV ratings the only real protection is to get inside. Sadly, they get run over by cars due to poor light conditions later on in the afternoon. This may not actually be the case.

In summary, Day Light savings is not designed for tropical regions like Far North Queensland. That is why they don't have it. Polls have repeatedly shown that the majority of Queenslanders outside the south-east corner do not want daylight saving.

In the south-east of Qld, the same polls show that the majority do want it, and the geography of the area means that it would work. However, the problems of how to integrate two time zones in the one state have so far proven impossible to manage. In other parts of the country, such as the 80% of people who live south of the Queensland border, it is entirely practical.
 
#12 ·
I was working when it started so I got to work a extra hour for no pay. :furious:
 
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#16 ·
Who cares if you get up in the dark? The people who have to travel to work on country roads, that then have to worry about hitting animals. The people who were fed up with getting up in the dark all winter and are now getting a reprieve only to have it taken away from them for several more weeks.
DLS was a stupid idea in the first place and it's still a stupid idea now.
 
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#19 ·
I just watched your vid, Thunder, that's a classic.
So I always thought it was too hard for you good folk to physically change the clock, but as the vid shows, you just can't get a handle of the concept it all. Or maybe the fear of getting to work early :smile2:
 
#20 ·
We live on the way to you Dark Angel, it's a really good idea....
 
#21 · (Edited)
I actually like DS and would be happy for it to be in where I live, but I do get that people who live further west than me also have an inbuilt DS, e.g.

Sunrise in Brisvegas today is 5.29, in Mt Isa its 6.24, people some times forget that Australia is a bloody big place and that relative longitude and latitude matter a lot.

On Latitude, the further south you are the more twilight exists in summer, and thus the greater benefit from DS; in north Qld in mid summer Twilight is still short, e.g. in Cairns in January its all of 20 minutes. (Using civil twilight as the base for comparison)
 
#22 ·
I love it. I live on the NSW QLD border. If I have an appointment I have to remember it is for the whichever states time the appointment is for. For the last 25 years of my working life the ship I worked on done the bauxite run Gladstone to Weipa. As much as I love daylight savings I have to agree that you don't need it north of the Sunshine Coast. And you know what Bjelke-Peterson said. "The people of Queensland think the sun shines out of my ar** and I am not getting up an hour earlier for anyone."
 
#24 ·
It is more about putting the daylight where you can use it - for instance when living DS I could go home at 6 pm and mow the lawns, or go water skiing after work. How many of us get up at 3am to prepare for daylight activities at 4am.
 
#25 ·
Yep I lost a hours sleep last night. :furious:

Started work at 4:45am today. :fineprint:

But I can have a poppy nap on the beach or by the pool this afternoon before the grand final.

LOVE IT.
 
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#28 ·
Here is a sensible idea :grin2:
Why not, at the next change, put the clock back half an hour then leave it like that and no need to change again ? Half hour either way then, so surely would meet everyone's criteria.
Or is this too easy ? :confused:
 
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#31 ·
It is often overlooked that DLS contributes to Global Warming, as more humans are active for the "extra" hr, and therefore expelling more CO2...
This is not all bad however! as the warming will bring the beach closer for many and they can enjoy the beach during the "extra" hour ;)
 
#32 ·
I heard it was the cows as they are more active and produce Methane gas. This is also a fault of the vegetarians as we are not eating enough cows.
 
#34 ·
Clarkson has the answer- feed vegetarians to cows..
 
#36 ·
I,m gratefull for that! I,d rather lamb than lucerne anyday!
 
#37 ·
If the good lord (or whoever) did not want us to eat cows why did he make them out of meat ???


Surely he would have chosen something inedible if he did not want us to consume them ???



Eating cows must be a natural thing to do and they taste great too, light the BBQ.
 
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