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Daylight Saving
I have two cents and I want to spend it.
While I kind of like daylight saving, realistically, I'm not tired to it and don't see any point to it in the modern world, beyond being part of an outdated tradition.
To say that it saves on lighting costs or power in the evenings is part of a false economy - many people have to get up quite early for work and so the lights go during the dark mornings when they might not when running on normal time. Most studies have shown that any difference to power usage is negligible. And if you're so concerned with power usage, why not back a push for air conditioners not to be used until the temperature passes 27 degrees outside? That'd surely save some power.*
Some studies claim that it reduces road accidents, others say that's not so. But if you're really concerned with lowering the road toll, why wouldn't you want the hour's difference all year round? Or better yet, just lower the speed limit to 30kph, and set the allowable blood alcohol level to zero for drivers.
As for the extra hour of daylight allowing people more leisure time outside. Well, maybe it does, but in this day and age, the vast majority of people with more leisure time tend to spend it inside in front of the telly or the computer.
With the air conditioning going.
And why is it that every time daylight savings loses out in WA, people complain that the 'no' voters aren't giving it a chance, and are behind the times? With the most recent voting, the majority of WA folks decided that it didn't work for them after a three year trial. As for being behind the times, no one was interested in the original concept of daylight saving for twenty years, until it was finally started during the first World War to try and save coal.
It was an attempt to save resources for a war fought nearly one hundred years ago.
As to the old chestnut of bringing WA more into line with the Eastern States, well WA will still be two hours out the rest of the year. Why don't we instead go with one of the original suggestions for Australian time zones - the entire country runs on Adelaide time. Then it'd be noon in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth all at the same time!
So, anyway, that's that off my chest.
Discuss. Rant. But try to be polite to one another, eh?
* Actually, if I had my way, aircon would not be allowed to be used until it was 30-35 outside. But that's me.
While I kind of like daylight saving, realistically, I'm not tired to it and don't see any point to it in the modern world, beyond being part of an outdated tradition.
To say that it saves on lighting costs or power in the evenings is part of a false economy - many people have to get up quite early for work and so the lights go during the dark mornings when they might not when running on normal time. Most studies have shown that any difference to power usage is negligible. And if you're so concerned with power usage, why not back a push for air conditioners not to be used until the temperature passes 27 degrees outside? That'd surely save some power.*
Some studies claim that it reduces road accidents, others say that's not so. But if you're really concerned with lowering the road toll, why wouldn't you want the hour's difference all year round? Or better yet, just lower the speed limit to 30kph, and set the allowable blood alcohol level to zero for drivers.
As for the extra hour of daylight allowing people more leisure time outside. Well, maybe it does, but in this day and age, the vast majority of people with more leisure time tend to spend it inside in front of the telly or the computer.
With the air conditioning going.
And why is it that every time daylight savings loses out in WA, people complain that the 'no' voters aren't giving it a chance, and are behind the times? With the most recent voting, the majority of WA folks decided that it didn't work for them after a three year trial. As for being behind the times, no one was interested in the original concept of daylight saving for twenty years, until it was finally started during the first World War to try and save coal.
It was an attempt to save resources for a war fought nearly one hundred years ago.
As to the old chestnut of bringing WA more into line with the Eastern States, well WA will still be two hours out the rest of the year. Why don't we instead go with one of the original suggestions for Australian time zones - the entire country runs on Adelaide time. Then it'd be noon in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth all at the same time!
So, anyway, that's that off my chest.
Discuss. Rant. But try to be polite to one another, eh?
* Actually, if I had my way, aircon would not be allowed to be used until it was 30-35 outside. But that's me.
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I want a consistent time. It is what it is - it shouldn't be any different in summer than winter. I resent the lost hour for the now freaking whole six months, and then I resent the fact that when it stops we have to work an hour "longer".
I have an internal body clock and I find daylight savings really knocks around my system.
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It is a little sad to see the reactions of some people whose necessities were different.
The arguments I'm seeing are now drifting towards late-night trading, which is only weakly connected to daylight savings. My opinions there are less strong, though being actually moved more to no by some of the yay-sayers suggestion that we are living in the dark ages by not having late or even 24 hour shops. Whether or not our population base can support it.
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Meh. I hate daylight savings.
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To be fair, the pubs are always busy when I leave the shop at about the same hour. It's just the mall area that resembles a ghost town.
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While this doesn't seem to effect us so much with Lex, I've heard a number of parents say their children, babies through to school years, don't deal well with the change in routine.
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But yeah, good points well said. ;)
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In summer, if I know it's going to be a 40+ degree day, I close all the doors, draw the curtains, etc. and keep half an eye on the temperature inside and outside. As soon as temp inside starts to get close to outside, I open everything up to let the air flow through.
If the day is only 35-37, I just leave everything open - doors, windows, etc. Lex coped with the summer heat fine. Kept an eye on him, made sure to keep his fluids up, but no problems at all.
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Every other area were majority 'no' areas, getting more so the further away from the coast one got.
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One of the things I dislike about daylight savings is the way it stuffs farmers about. Making life harder for a primary industry that provides food for the majority always seems unfair to me.
BTW OT, Roadshow has a Doctor Who sale coming up, so I'll hold off and we should be able to get you Dalek Invasion a bit cheaper.
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(Anonymous) 2009-05-19 01:03 am (UTC)(link)no subject
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Sale starts in June. No idea how much of a reduction they'll be giving, may only be a couple of dollars, will let you know prices once I have them.
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