Extending Daylight Saving

[Naki]

Heard on the news this morning that Dunn & another MP are starting a petition to extend daylight saving by 3 weeks.

Great, about time bloody time. Daylight saving is usually over before summer starts.

Bring it on, where do I sign.

What are your thoughts.

[Lorax]

Totally agree, extend it. Or where's Maui when you need him.

Would suck for the farmers though. But I'm all for it.

[Ixion]

Great. Where do I sign. And why can't we have more than 3 weeks.And why isn't it more than 1 hour. 2 would be better. Or 3 . At least.

[yungatart]

Leave it the way it is... I don't like getting up in the dark. It is long enough now.

[onearmedbandit]

Bring it on, I'm all for another 3 weeks of it.

[Korea]

All that extra sunlight really fades the curtains. Not good. :dodge:

[blackkatana]

More daylight while it is warm is good, nice to be able to do more outside in the evening.:rockon:

[avgas]

Has anyone told Ra?

[Motu]

I'd be for it it I could start work at 9.00am...I just hate getting up in the dark,that's what summer is all about to me,waking up in daylight.

When daylight saving first started (officaily,we were already on daylight saving really) I was on shift work and finished at 9.00pm,and rode home in daylight.That was good,as some of my bikes didn't have lights then.

[Lou Girardin]

At least three weeks, they could start it at Labour weekend to throw the anti's a crumb though.

[Pussy]

Great idea! My job depends on daylight, and I know it's only psycological, but I would rather get out of the pit at 4:45am instead of 3:45am at this time of the year

[BarBender]

Nice...more riding time after work...:scooter:

[Skyryder]

Dumb idea.

Skyryder

[Storm]

I'm all for it, as summer doesnt get here for at least 3 weeks later than it once did. Start 3 weeks later and go another three at the other end maybe?

[xwhatsit]

Dumb idea.

Skyryder

Oh shush, Farmer Joe, your cows won't get sunburned :D.

W00t! They should have it all year round, though!

[Blairos]

I'm all for it - maybe a poll should be posted?

[vifferman]

What a blardy stupid idea! It's too long now - nearly 6 months!

How it works now is you're just starting to be able to wake up in the morning, by yourself (without the alrarm), and they go and introduce Daylight Robbery. This continues well past the time when it's dark at getting-up time, so the last thing we need is for it to be extended. Apart from being able to play sport or mow the lawns, what does this mucking about with the clocks (and our body clocks) achieve? And it you've got youngish kids, it's a real pain in the arse trying to get them to go to bed and wake up according to some faceless bureaucrat's idea of what the clock should say. (So I can almost guarantee almost all those in favour of Daylight Robbery are either single people or childless...)

[Ixion]

,, Apart from being able to play sport or mow the lawns, what does this mucking about with the clocks (and our body clocks) achieve?

An extra hours daylight riding time after werk .

Sheesh, i thought THAT was obvious.



And it you've got youngish kids, it's a real pain in the arse trying to get them to go to bed ,,


So, stop trying. Do what our parents did, kick the little buggers out after dinner and tell them to be back by dark. By the time they return and are hosed down and bandaged, they'll be quite ready to sleep.

[imdying]

So long as it doesn't screw up farming much worse than it does anyway, I'm all for it. How exactly does it screw up farming though? Does it piss the cattle off?

[onearmedbandit]

Since when have you ever given a fuck about someone else???

[xwhatsit]

So long as it doesn't screw up farming much worse than it does anyway, I'm all for it. How exactly does it screw up farming though? Does it piss the cattle off?

Yeah, they miss an hour of sleep each night, which makes the milk taste bitter :yes:

[Shadows]

Yeah, they miss an hour of sleep each night, which makes the milk taste bitter :yes:

If that's true then why don't they just put the cows to bed an hour earlier? Stupid bloody inbreds.

I think the real reason is that when the clocks go forward, the farmers have to to a lot of their work in the dark and hence stub their toes on shit and drive their quads into ditches which makes the farmers bitter, not the milk, which, incidentally, tastes like shit anyway.

[xwhatsit]

If that's true then why don't they just put the cows to bed an hour earlier? Stupid bloody inbreds.

I think the real reason is that when the clocks go forward, the farmers have to to a lot of their work in the dark and hence stub their toes on shit and drive their quads into ditches which makes the farmers bitter, not the milk, which, incidentally, tastes like shit anyway.

Heh. Don't they know they're obsolete anyway? I drink soy milk.

Obviously there's a reason they can't start work later and finish later -- is it to keep to an outside schedule (i.e., the outside world still wants their milk at 2pm, even though Farmer Joe has to work in the dark to meet that)?

[Shadows]

Obviously there's a reason they can't start work later and finish later -- is it to keep to an outside schedule (i.e., the outside world still wants their milk at 2pm, even though Farmer Joe has to work in the dark to meet that)?

Yep, I think that's pretty much it.

[Hitcher]

Doesn't anybody consider the poor birds having to get up an hour earlier for their dawn chorus? Daylight saving must play havoc with the departure plans of migratory species. Greenpeace should be all over this like a can of dolphin meat. The slackers.

[Flatcap]

Why extend it? Just change the bloody clocks and leave them that way all year.