CAN EVERYBODY REMEMBER TO VOTE FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ON MAY 16TH.
IT WILL BE A REALLY CLOSE VOTE.
LAST NIGHT WAS DARK AT 814PM.
IF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS VOTED AGAINST WILL BE DARK DURING SUMMER JUST AFTER 7PM!!!!!
IMAGINE GETTING ON WATER AFTER WORK AT 6PM AND HAVING JUST OVER 1 HOUR OF SAILING!!!!!
IF YOU LOVE THE WIND VOTE YES
CHEERS
im a big fan of it elmo because i can pop down the beech after a 12 hour shift and its not dark
i guess that most people against it are famblies with yung kids who are loosing out on sleep
I guess the overwhelming response to longer evenings will be a resounding no.
We live in a fantastic part of the world blessed with beautiful everything and spoilt only by the people who are too set in their ways to see any benefit in change.
Sad really.
just can't help myself
I reckon Elmo is scared of daylight savings because his fur will fade and his friend Mr Snuffleupagus wont know when to come home?
daylight saving is crap.
I read a piece written by an American Indian a while back who said, when questioned about it
"only a white man would cut 12" off the bottom of a blanket, sew it on the top, and think he had a bigger blanket"
it will get chucked out and rightly so. Selfish people living in the city think they are the only inhabitants of WA.
The reason for bringing it in was to keep WA aligned with the rest of Aus but then they try to change that even by shortening the timeframe.
kids just in to bed 907pm wtf
when is adult time
to sleepy
if the kids had the vote it would win hands down
Feel sorry for us at smaller latitudes, where there is no daylight saving:http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/astro/sunrisenset
Longest day of the year (isn't it?)
GOLD COAST Lat=-27?59'00" Long=+153?20'00"
TIMES OF SUNRISE AND SUNSET
(for ideal horizon & meteorological conditions)
Time zone: +10.00 hours
21/11/2009 Rise 0444 Set 1821
Anyway, everyone knows that since Daylight Savings has been introduced global warming has increased. This is obviously because of the extra sunlight.
I can understand there are specific situations where daylight savings makes life more difficult. Mark's example could happen. However in these situations there are answers. For example in western NSW has similar issues with school children and the hours of school.
The NSW Department of Education is trialling flexible school hours in a number of western district schools, starting school later and breaking the hours up a bit. Some of these schools face huge difficulties with staffing, ie 30% turnover of teachers a year, and students achieving basic literacy and numeracy outcomes.
The point is Sydney and Perth are at similar lattitudes, thus they have similar lengths of days and nights. Daylight savings won't fit all, perhaps we need a bit of flexibility. Most WAers live around Perth, most would benefit from daylight savings, reducing time differences for interstate business, after work recreation time etc.
I used to live on the Gold Coast QLD and dawn would break about 4.30am high summer and it was sunny by about 5am. I hated it coz all the bloody birds would be squarking and carrying on.
In the end though, daylight savings doesn't increase temperatures, doesn't stop cows from laying eggs and isn't a sign from the book of Revelations of the return of the anti-christ.
