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Sebastionbear	Daylight saving clock winding mnemonic	Lead	[-]
Posts: 507 (13-Oct-08 4:48 AM) failure to launch Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Davo's note regarding WA daylight saving not starting until the end of October, and the fact that SA started a week ago reminded me of a good mnemonic. Someone told me this last summer as I couldn't remember whether to wind the clocks forward or back at the start of daylight saving. Adjust clocks - Spring forward, Fall back. (remembering that Fall is autumn in the good old US of A) Cheers, Craig
MrsTosh		#1	[-]
Posts: 337 (29-Oct-08 2:27 PM) herbal fairy godmother Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hey Paddington. That IS a good one isn't it. Mr Tosh lived in the US for four years in the late 70's and he taught me that one. I've always had the trouble remembering forward or back at the beginning and end of daylight savings. Had trouble with the different time zones going over and coming back across Oz I might add. Not when we got to the other end or when we've come home, but all the bits in the middle?? I think it was the two separate changes after leaving NSW or was that three? Nearly got us into a spot of bother approaching Madura on the way back!
MossBerg Graphics		#2	[-]
Posts: 914 (29-Oct-08 5:34 PM) BattleStar Galactica Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Daylight savings, whats that? :) FarRider #3 Welcome to Qeensland Roads, please wind you watch back 20 years.
MrsTosh		#3	[-]
Posts: 343 (29-Oct-08 5:48 PM) herbal fairy godmother Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Bloody Queenslanders! You don't know what you're missing out on! Like losing an hours sleep!!!! The evenings are the best for BBQ's and you "seem" to be able to get loads more done with the extra daylight. I've lived with it all my life and it's something to both look forward to and not due the lack of sleep! It's amazing how 1 hour can make such a difference, but hey. Winters are long and cold in Canberra.
Aussiedav		#4	[-]
Posts: 4594 (29-Oct-08 6:13 PM) FarRider Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Our curtains last longer than yours Davo 1400GTR "Roo" & 1000GTR "Griff" IBA #22575 - Davo's Pages
Patrickp93		#5	[-]
Posts: 218 (29-Oct-08 7:24 PM) Still Here Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	No such thing as daylight saving, moving clocks around is just organised stupidity getting up in the dark to go to bed in the daylight, saving bloody what, has a group of humans ever done any thing more dumb
MrsTosh		#6	[-]
Posts: 346 (29-Oct-08 7:38 PM) herbal fairy godmother Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Curtins! Phewy! Ha ha! I suppose your furniture does too. Ha ha. Now Patrick. Yes. We aren't actually SAVING daylight, but we do get to enjoy the afternoons and evening twilight without the Sun setting at 4.30pm. Going to bed in the daylight? What time are you going to bed??? We aren't the only country in the world that does daylight savings you know. In England in Summer it can still be light at 10pm at night! Now there's some extra savings for you! Then again in Winter the Sun is already setting at 3pm and dark around 4pm or earlier. Icky!!! We have incredible light here. Even in Winter. The Sun sets very quickly on the Nullabor though. Like sinking into the inky blackness of nothingness.
rusjel		#7	[-]
Posts: 98 (30-Oct-08 8:03 AM) I Live Here Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The further you go in latitude for more benefit you get, explains why us QLDers aren't excited but it is a good thing in Melbournistan. What I've never been able to figure out is why they don't try it in Winter? Getting up and coming home in the dark can get pretty depressing in a Victorian winter and DLS might get you a bit of daylight in the arvo? Russell IBA #33180 Farrider #61
large		#8	[-]
Posts: 97 (30-Oct-08 9:04 AM) Hangs Out Here Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've lived in a state thas has it (SA) and now live in a state that doesn't. (QLD). I can go either way on the issue. However, there are lots of people migrating from states that have daylight saving to a state that doesn't. It's just juggling a clock to suit the earths rotation around the sun. And getting better curtain mileage too. 8). Alan FarRider #90 2001 Kawasaki ZZR1100 Brisbane QLD
reader57		#9	[-]
Posts: 173 (30-Oct-08 10:58 AM) Hangs Out Here Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Daylight saving has not really affected me for the last six years. I go to work before sunrise and leave after sunset all season long. But the family enjoys it till they go to school. Peter H 1000GTR Blue 2001 "JB" GTR-AUS #179 Ulysses #49641 Swan Hill Victoria
MrsTosh		#10	[-]
Posts: 351 (30-Oct-08 4:58 PM) herbal fairy godmother Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	More on the Spring forward. Fall back. I was reading about it in Readers Digest today. Funny how things jump out at you. This last Winter in Canberra I was getting up and driving to work in the dark, but because I finish work at around 3.30pm I was able to enjoy more daylight. Nice in a Canberra Winter. We still have much more daylight during Winter than Europe does and we have days where it's SO frosty and -5 or so in the mornings, but the days are so clear. Crystal days we call them here. Perfectly gorgeous. After a hot Summer the first breath of Autumn and Winter is a relief and the air becomes so fresh.
Patrickp93		#11	[-]
Posts: 219 (30-Oct-08 6:11 PM) Still Here Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	rusjel wrote: What I've never been able to figure out is why they don't try it in Winter? Getting up and coming home in the dark can get pretty depressing in a Victorian winter and DLS might get you a bit of daylight in the arvo? Ok I will go with that put the clocks foward one hour and leave them there if you need a bit more daylight in the afternoon any time winter is it, it is still qiute a dumb thing to do midday is when the sun is in the middle of the sky dosn't mater a rats what those in charge try to tell us by fiddleing with the clocks
MrsTosh		#12	[-]
Posts: 353 (30-Oct-08 6:24 PM) herbal fairy godmother Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You don't like conformity much do you Patrick. Statement not a question. Not a bad thing really, just makes life more difficult sometimes. Hey! You could always move to Queensland? You could also lobby parliament to instigate a referendum to vote daylight savings out altogether. Let the people decide perhaps. I'm pretty sure the people voted it in in the first place? There's always the right of reply in parliament too. Doesn't get used much, but it's there. The only time I didn't appreciate daylight savings was when I was a child on Christmas Eve! That was hard!!!
Patrickp93		#13	[-]
Posts: 221 (30-Oct-08 7:19 PM) Still Here Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Mrs Tosh when I was small I always wished I was somebody else then when I was about six I decided that I was me and that was it and the rest of you would just have to get use to it, when I was truck driving I always ran on Queensland time where ever I was, but my job now involves working with others and mine pre starts and a few hours farming when I get home ect ect ect and 4am get out of beds [really 3am] so I just do what I have to do and get on with it but calling 3am 4am is still dumb
MrsTosh		#14	[-]
Posts: 358 (30-Oct-08 7:32 PM) herbal fairy godmother Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Mrs Tosh when I was small I always wished I was somebody else then when I was about six I decided that I was me and that was it and the rest of you would just have to get use to it, Well Patrick. You're very lucky that you decided that at six years old. I use to wish I was someone else and somewhere else too. Anyways. It took me many years to be comfortable with who I am and to like myself for who I am. One programmer said to me when I left Telstra that if people don't like me (in new employment) then Fxxx 'em... GTR-AUS is a wonderful thing is it not.
MossBerg Graphics		#15	[-]
Posts: 915 (30-Oct-08 7:44 PM) BattleStar Galactica Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	when your working 12 hr shifts 40+ degrees, having daylight savings doesn't change a thing, at the end of yoru shift, your still feeling the same as you were when no daylight savings, the alst thing you want to do when you get home is go out and mow the lawn or somthing cos there is still daylight left in the day etc. As Rusjel has noted, it may work well down south, but up here, it's just a pain in the rear end. there is still talk of having t up here, the push is coming from the southeast, gold coast area etc. It was voted out in qld, but with the constant talk from the big smoke of bringing it back it will be very interesting if they do. the south east may be happy and change the clock, but up here, i think the people up here will tell the gubbermint and those in the big smoke to go moot the boot and not touch the clock.... FarRider #3 Welcome to Qeensland Roads, please wind you watch back 20 years.
st1300		#16	[-]
Posts: 11 (31-Oct-08 5:56 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	In my day...when I was younger..much younger, it was good to finish work at 4pm and still have daylight for 18 holes of golf. Now with a seven year old...try putting them to bed at 7:30pm.....IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. It doesn't work....It doesn't get my vote. Cheers! Rick. QLD
MrsTosh		#17	[-]
Posts: 360 (31-Oct-08 7:06 AM) herbal fairy godmother Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Daylight savings doesn't change how you feel at the end of a long working day; and it doesn't make it easier to put your children to bed. It is just a part of life.
Sebastionbear		#18	[-]
Posts: 568 (31-Oct-08 7:15 AM) failure to launch Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well in the Adelaide Hills I love it. I get up in the dark anyway (5 to 5.30am) and after a long day at Uni, there is nothing better than having the beautiful Adelaide Hills Spring sunlight in the afternoon to play with the kids, mow lawns, work on cars/bikes, sit and have a beer, shoot the shit with friends. As it gets warmer we tend to spend more time out of the house in the back garden and under the pergola than inside. When it comes to bed-time. Our two hit the sack at 7.30 - 8.00pm and blockout curtains work wonders. Not a problem. Cheers, Craig
MrsTosh		#19	[-]
Posts: 361 (31-Oct-08 2:39 PM) herbal fairy godmother Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Touche!
Fattymick		#20	[-]
Posts: 347 (31-Oct-08 5:33 PM) I Live Here Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	DST Sucks Michael-Brian Newtron Silver 2008 1400GTR GTR-AUS #181 FarRider # 109 Ulysses #49376 Northam WA

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