It reminds me of a family reunion

Tis a bit isn't it - we all know the points on both sides, and we all know which posters will turn up

Yeah, and remember to serve them with plastic cups and paper plates

The last person I expected to support DLS but there you go. Just goes to show that the rejection of DLS is not a foregone conclusion:

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/stor...2-2761,00.html

7.30 Polly. Try 6.30 in North Queensland and I'm still buggered why they don't want it.

Probably because it wouldn't get light till nearer 7am in the morning.

eg:
Cairns: Longest day 22 Dec 2008 -
- Sunrise 5:42 AM - Sunset 6:50 PM
If you had DLS it would become
- Sunrise 6:42 AM - Sunset 7:50 PM

and Brisbane would change from:
- Sunrise 4:50 AM - Sunset 6:43 PM
to
- Sunrise 5:50 AM - Sunset 7:43 PM

You can see that the people in Brisbane would not be overely affected by the lost hour (of daylight) in the morning, but they would further north.

What some people forget, is that it is the Morning Daylight that many people are concerned about, when considering DLS.

I do however know some people that would actually be OK with DLS, but will vote against it, purely on the grounds that some others have insulted them for not wanting to change from being a morning person to an evening person.

I haven't had to get up in the dark since leaving the UK and would hate it. British winters used to depress the hell out of me and even knowing the sun will be up and out all day, still wouldn't make up for opening the curtains and seeing only dark.

The best excuses I have heard were:

1. The lobsters get confused by daylight savings time. (Lobster fishing is allowed for one hour very early in the morning and how will the lobsters know to set their rolexes forward by an hour in spring? There is a great cartoon here, but I can't draw.

2. From a solar electricity farmer (you know: those with lots and lots of huge solar panels on their land, selling the electricity to Synergy): DST is costing me money, because I lose an hour of sunlight in the mornings while we have DST. (Because the clocks go forward in spring and it looks like you lose an hour ... but there are of course the same number of hours of sunlight in the day ...)

I think both of the above are priceless. Both were from the letters page in "The West Australian".

I was going on best case in Brisbane, I have to admit
Hadn't heard the one about solar panels, but I remember reading the lobster one. Wasn't that around the same time hat someone in WA objected on the grounds that "an hours extra daylight gives the locusts extra time to breed"?

Sunrise tomorrow in Melbourne is at 0733, presumably it is at a similar time in the rural areas of Victoria north of Melbourne where there are farmers etc - one wonders how people cope!??

They way they always do, and the way they are used to it... and that is the point "the way they are used to it".

That is why migrants from the UK have a harder time changing, and would rather the local system change to suit them.

Well clearly some do, some don't - this thread is a point in case. And the same goes for Aussie interstate migrants, and also those Aussies living in the state they were born in.

I work 12 hr shifts 6am - 6pm go to work in the dark come home in the dark if it wasnt for dls this would stretch into 9 months of the year. who's worried about what time it gets light when your at work.again at least with dls can get home have tea and then get out down beach to walk the dog.Also referendums dont work not democratic.unless you revisit the question every year

referendums are a complete waste of time. Cater to the lowest common denominator.

Oh ... don't get me started.