Daylight Saving........
Dec 11th 2006, 6:15 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
Originally Posted by renth
We all go to sleep about 90 minutes later and now I'm always tired!
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Dec 11th 2006, 6:31 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
Originally Posted by Amazulu
A woman wrote into The West Australian newspaper complaining that the locusts out in the wheatbelt (they have a locust problem out there at the moment) now have an extra hour to do their destruction!
What a tool.
What a tool.
LOL - I saw that letter too. I love the letters pg - its almost on a par with the Daily Mail letters.
Dec 11th 2006, 6:34 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
Originally Posted by sme
LOL - I saw that letter too. I love the letters pg - its almost on a par with the Daily Mail letters.
Dec 11th 2006, 7:02 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
Originally Posted by Pollyana
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It makes me feel at home
Dec 12th 2006, 3:06 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
Originally Posted by sme
LOL - I saw that letter too. I love the letters pg - its almost on a par with the Daily Mail letters.
Dec 16th 2006, 1:58 pm
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Re: Daylight Saving........
Originally Posted by Amazulu
Although The West Australian is not as bad as The Daily Mail, I think a lot of the people who write letters to The West would enjoy reading The Mail if they lived in the UK.
Jan 26th 2007, 3:41 pm
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Re: Daylight Saving........
I had to resurrect this after a conversation tonight with an Aussie lady in her sixties. Very strongly anti-daylight savings, for this reason.
"The cows will have to be milked at the same time as usual, but the tanker that collects the milk will turn up an hour late so all the milk will be ruined." I tried, believe me I tried, to explain to her that if the tanker comes at 6 am now, it will still come at 6am, but she insisted that the cows are milked at 5, and under daylight savings there will be TWO hours between 5 am and 6am, so the milk will spoil!
"The cows will have to be milked at the same time as usual, but the tanker that collects the milk will turn up an hour late so all the milk will be ruined." I tried, believe me I tried, to explain to her that if the tanker comes at 6 am now, it will still come at 6am, but she insisted that the cows are milked at 5, and under daylight savings there will be TWO hours between 5 am and 6am, so the milk will spoil!
Jan 26th 2007, 6:34 pm
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Re: Daylight Saving........
I had to resurrect this after a conversation tonight with an Aussie lady in her sixties. Very strongly anti-daylight savings, for this reason.
"The cows will have to be milked at the same time as usual, but the tanker that collects the milk will turn up an hour late so all the milk will be ruined." I tried, believe me I tried, to explain to her that if the tanker comes at 6 am now, it will still come at 6am, but she insisted that the cows are milked at 5, and under daylight savings there will be TWO hours between 5 am and 6am, so the milk will spoil!
"The cows will have to be milked at the same time as usual, but the tanker that collects the milk will turn up an hour late so all the milk will be ruined." I tried, believe me I tried, to explain to her that if the tanker comes at 6 am now, it will still come at 6am, but she insisted that the cows are milked at 5, and under daylight savings there will be TWO hours between 5 am and 6am, so the milk will spoil!
Jan 27th 2007, 1:05 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
If you were coming to Brissie and likely to never get long summer evenings again, then you might see a point to DST. I read on here courtesy of someone the other day that there are actually more days in London where it is daylight at 6pm, then there are in Melbourne!
Jan 27th 2007, 3:28 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
It's a bit like Poms asking 'stupid' questions about snakes and spiders - they're not used to them. There are plenty of people on this site who get simple things confused or wrong like seasons in southern Australia.
Jan 27th 2007, 3:37 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
What I can't understand is why people in Brisbane/SE Qld don't just do what businesses in some parts of Canada and the U.S. often do in the summer - adopt changed hours in summer, start earlier, close earlier etc.
Jan 27th 2007, 3:52 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
I had to resurrect this after a conversation tonight with an Aussie lady in her sixties. Very strongly anti-daylight savings, for this reason.
"The cows will have to be milked at the same time as usual, but the tanker that collects the milk will turn up an hour late so all the milk will be ruined." I tried, believe me I tried, to explain to her that if the tanker comes at 6 am now, it will still come at 6am, but she insisted that the cows are milked at 5, and under daylight savings there will be TWO hours between 5 am and 6am, so the milk will spoil!
"The cows will have to be milked at the same time as usual, but the tanker that collects the milk will turn up an hour late so all the milk will be ruined." I tried, believe me I tried, to explain to her that if the tanker comes at 6 am now, it will still come at 6am, but she insisted that the cows are milked at 5, and under daylight savings there will be TWO hours between 5 am and 6am, so the milk will spoil!
I can remember on my dad's farm it took about a week for the cows to realise the clocks had changed - daft buggers
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Jan 27th 2007, 3:53 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
Jan 27th 2007, 3:58 am
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Re: Daylight Saving........
At the end of the day its about routine. Some of these Aussies say crazy things about DST - its not a concept they are familiar with, they haven't dealt with it so don't know. Alot of things in life and their application are not that obvious, alot of clever people can be caught out.
It's a bit like Poms asking 'stupid' questions about snakes and spiders - they're not used to them. There are plenty of people on this site who get simple things confused or wrong like seasons in southern Australia.
It's a bit like Poms asking 'stupid' questions about snakes and spiders - they're not used to them. There are plenty of people on this site who get simple things confused or wrong like seasons in southern Australia.