Must be the heat... .

LOL - I saw that letter too. I love the letters pg - its almost on a par with the Daily Mail letters.

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It makes me feel at home

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.

Are Aussies not more Sun people? But then that extra our of reading would upset them.

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!

Unless they continue to milk at 5am (non daylight savings) which is now 4am due to the changes. She does have a point if thats a problem. Will the milk spoil?.... dont know... but personally I dont like daylight savings purely as i cant be ar*ed to change my clocks.

She really believed that there would be an extra hour in the day. I had to give up, she just didn't understand that the clocks moved and the day duid not suddenly get 25 hours in it!

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!

I assume you're taking the p*iss?

Otherwise, what time did the famly go to bed in England in June when it gets dark at 10pm?!

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.

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.

Whereas the reality is that the cows will still be coming in at 5am winter time which is 6am summer time and will miss the truck completely

I can remember on my dad's farm it took about a week for the cows to realise the clocks had changed - daft buggers

Have you ever lived in Qld Jeremy? That would be as radical a suggestion as DST - I swear that a lot of Qlders (esp the older generation) are programmed at birth. Breakfast at 7, lunch at 12, tea at 6. The idea of eating at 8 (even in restaurants) causes looks of horror, the idea of shops being open on a Saturday afternoon is pretty radical, and as for changing thei times all together.....it'd stop the chickens giving milk and fade the roof or some such twaddle

Yes but renth is British isn't he?