jad n rich

It would be ideal to move building work to 4 am so you got a couple of hours heat free, but council regs wouldnt allow it, you cant start till its been light and hot for 3 hours.

In summer here I would love night shift, work in the cooler hours and lock myself in a AC room to sleep in the day, but school commitments etc dont really allow you to be that flexible.

Pollyana

I'm sooooo lucky to do mainly nights now, I get to see more daylight than when I was working dayshift, cos my evenings are now everyone else's mornings - I sit outside with a glass of wine after work in daylight, chill out, then go to bed - much much nicer (personally) than sitting outside in darkness. It feels like evening to me, so it works, feels more like an English evening. Then I can sleep through the heat of the day, back to work when its cooler.

Cheetah7

Whack the little bastards round the head or put some sedative in their food, that will do it.

exsquaddie

Mean while in QUEENSLAND...... Its just been realised that trying to elect a cow or a sheep as a state MP is not going to work (even though it might be representative of the combined intellegence qouta) and that putting your hands over your ears and singing- LALALALALALALALALALALA!!!!!!, will not stop DST from being brought in.

Clearly some contributors to this thread seem to think that it is never going to change and that the above method will work. Sooner or later it will change as more and more people move into the state and it will have to. If that means splitting the state into two time zones then fine. The mentality at the moment by some observers is almost along the lines of - "NO you are not allowed out after 6PM to enjoy youreselves, YOU will be in bed by 9pm at the latest in order to be up at stupid o'clock in the morning to go and for a walk and hug a tree whilst eating tofu!"

QUEENSLAND- (The rather behind the times and slightly Nannyish state that needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twenty first century!)

Pollyana

ABCDiamond

Government advice is: Close doors, windows, curtains and blinds in areas you want to cool.

ABCDiamond

Galaxy polls on the Queensland Daylight Saving issue showed support for DLS changing as:

52 per cent in 2005
51 per cent in 2007
48 per cent in 2010

Your logic excludes the numbers who move here and want daylight saving, but then change to not really wanting it after all.
In a 2007 government poll, 81% of those questioned had previously lived in DST areas, but only 52% were in favour of it in QLD.

It does make one think.

And of course the more who move to the Far North, then obviously they tend to go with not wanting Daylight saving.

Pollyana

Ahah, a new one......picked up from facebook.....there people who believe Daylight Saving is a bad thing as you have to mess around adjusting the clocks EVERY night

ABCDiamond

I get the feeling that people are messing with people

bcworld

There might be an element of truth in that! I deleted my iPhone alarms and created new ones...and again today, at 6am, the 7am alarm went off!

ABCDiamond

Not heard of that happening up in QLD

bcworld

Actually it is! I did some searching and it was first spotted a week ago in NZ when their daylight savings started. No fix or mention of it from Apple though.

Turns out any alarms set as recurring, e.g. every day or every weekday are going off an hour earlier than they are set for! Seen plenty of poor Qld'ers saying it's happening to them too though! Yet more evidence against the time stealing witchcraft!

Pollyana

Yep, a fair few Qlders have mentioned it - seen it on the twitter feed for ABC radio a few times, and other similar sources.

ABCDiamond

Then it is about time they all reverted back to normal time then

bingobob777

Tomorrow

Actual Time Sunrise 5:23 AM EST

Actual time Sunset 5:49 PM EST

why the hell would anyone not want the extra hour of daylight at night

Actually puts me off moving to Brisbane a bit!!