DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

[Psyber]

There is still 24 hours in a day and 6am is still 6am, is it not?

No, that's the point- 6am is now 7am and it is harder to get up because the sun is not yet sufficiently high in the sky.
Fortunately, I can now afford to get up when I wake up and ignore this issue.

[Booney]

There is still 24 hours in a day and 6am is still 6am, is it not?

No, that's the point- 6am is now 7am and it is harder to get up because the sun is not yet sufficiently high in the sky.
Fortunately, I can now afford to get up when I wake up and ignore this issue.

No 6am is 6am. Look at the clock at 6am and tell me what the time is. It will be, by my summation, 6am.

[Psyber]

Booney,
Zone Time based on the defined hourly segments around the planet when the sun is at its highest point in the sky at mid-day in the middle of each segment is as real time as we can get.
Local deviations from this position of the sun as a standard are much more artificial and confusing for all.
However I'll concede that using hourly segments adds an element of arbitrariness.

[mighty_tiger_79]

i wonder how people would cope if we are supposed to run on GMT +9hours, and at the momentwith daylight savings we are 1.5hrs ahead of that

[Gingernuts]

I love DLS - but I am seriously struggling this morning. Feels like I had a dozen beers last night.

[Drop Bear]

Brilliant for exercise. Bring it on!

[aceman]

Love it, but some people get really confused just like the old dear down the road said to me a couple of years back, she didn't like it because it "gave the sun an extra hour to fade her new curtains"

[Psyber]

My problem with it is very simple - I'm not a morning person and never have been - but those weird morning people run the world.
So, about the time I'm comfortable getting up at a reasonable clock time they want me to shift the b***** clock forward.
I could probably just about manage if DST started a month later and finished a month earlier, or if it came of a base of correct zone time.
Being half an hour ahead of zone time even in winter really gets to me.

[Turbo]

Used to like it before kids. Now with 2 little ones it plays with their bed time because it is lighter later. Pain the arse for me at the moment.

[Media Park]

this daylight savings guff has buggered me. i'm going to bed- and it's 9 o clock.

and normally would be 8! ARGH!

[AFLflyer]

I love daylight savings.

I can work in my garden after work, sat & sun arvo drinking sessions last longer, its easier taking dogs for a walk, can exercise, stay at the beach longer.

They should make it two hours!!

good call. it keeps you active and outside for longer... love it!

having 4 hours of daylight after work = nice.

[smithy]

My problem with it is very simple - I'm not a morning person and never have been - but those weird morning people run the world.
So, about the time I'm comfortable getting up at a reasonable clock time they want me to shift the b***** clock forward.
I could probably just about manage if DST started a month later and finished a month earlier, or if it came of a base of correct zone time.
Being half an hour ahead of zone time even in winter really gets to me.

No doubt you have a set of these sleep masks in the top drawer Psyber?

[Booney]

My problem with it is very simple - I'm not a morning person and never have been - but those weird morning people run the world.
So, about the time I'm comfortable getting up at a reasonable clock time they want me to shift the b***** clock forward.
I could probably just about manage if DST started a month later and finished a month earlier, or if it came of a base of correct zone time.
Being half an hour ahead of zone time even in winter really gets to me.

I just cannot, for the life of me, fathom how turning the clock forward by 1 measly hour has such an impact on people.

In the morning, it is darker for longer, I would assume making sleeping easier.

In the afternoon, it is light for longer, I would assume making it possible to do more......

[Psyber]

I just cannot, for the life of me, fathom how turning the clock forward by 1 measly hour has such an impact on people.
In the morning, it is darker for longer, I would assume making sleeping easier.
In the afternoon, it is light for longer, I would assume making it possible to do more......

Looking at it from my end:
In the morning it is no longer light enough for me to wake up easily when I would like too, early enough to get things done in the mornings.
In the afternoon, I suddenly realise I am still in the middle of doing something and it is 7.30pm, and so by the time I get my evening tasks like cooking for myself done and relax I get to bed after midnight.

Now I don't have to work I've given up dragging myself out of bed in semi-darkness using two alarm clocks, both out of reach, and waking up after I'm in the shower.
I resent years of having to do that because of other peoples' [from my perspective] non-physiological insanity!
I realise there are morning people and afternoon people - I just wish the morning people wouldn't impose their patterns on the rest of us.

[Psyber]

No doubt you have a set of these sleep masks in the top drawer Psyber?

No, I have no need for either of them.
My wife died in October 2008, and there is no live in girlfriend - I'm carefully avoiding that.
I've rarely been troubled by Paparazzi as I keep a low profile usually.
[There have been a couple of radio interviews in the past, that's all.]

What used to work for me in the winters, or for early starts in Summer, was the opposite strategy.
I used to set a fluoro up on top of a wardrobe timed to come on an hour or so before I needed to wake up.
The difficulty in Summer with DST is noticing the time in the evening and stopping what I am doing early enough to get to bed at a reasonable time.

[Magpiespower]

I just cannot, for the life of me, fathom how turning the clock forward by 1 measly hour has such an impact on people.

Same here!

Love daylight savings...

[GWW]

Daylight Savings returns this Sunday, 2nd October.

[fish]

Daylight Savings returns this Sunday, 2nd October.

You freaking beauty! Love it.

[JAS]

Daylight Savings returns this Sunday, 2nd October.

oooh thanks for that...ours doesn't change til the end of Oct so keep forgetting yours is at the start so the footy will be starting at 5:40am UK time on Sunday then...alarm clock at the ready.

Regards
JAS

[Booney]

IT'S ON AGAIN!!! Oh no, millions of peoples lives will be thrown into utter chaos.