Extending Daylight Saving

[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

[Shadows]

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

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.