Stop Messin Around Wid De Clox!!

[vifferman]

Alright - every pharkin year, they institute daylight robbery, just as it's starting to get light when I wake up, and just as I'm getting over Winter. WHY???
I'd be quite happy if we didn't have it at all, but if we have to have Daylight Slaverings (for whatever unfathomable reason), why is the NZDT period so friggin long?!?? It used to be (way back in the dim, dark ages when I was shorter and hairier) that we were only subjected to it for a few weeks in the height of summer, now it's half the year. And what does it achieve? Who is it really a benefit to?
Did they ask you, or me, or The Bloke Next Door what we thought about it, and if it was OK to mess around with our body clocks? Do they come around and reset all your clocks for you twice a year? I've got like 15 bazillion clockz or devices with clocks innem, and some of them are so pahrkin stooopid that I have to get the manual out to work out how to change 'em.
I HATE IT!!!
Didja know how few countires in the Southern Hemisphere actually subject their citizens to this nonsense? Check this out:
http://www.worldtimezone.com/daylight.htm

[marty]

daylight saving should be all year. what about riding your bike late in the evening after tea, walking the dogs, kids, wife etc. who cares if it's dark in the morning?

[Hitcher]

Geez, FS, get with the programme man!

Are you worried that the extra hour of daylight will fade the paint on your ride, or of the stress that it places on god's creatures who now have to get up an hour earlier for the dawn chorus?

Interestingly my GPS went to NZ Summer time a week before the actual day...

[marty]

so you could have been riding around at warp factor 20, and got off in court because you were actually there an hour before you left?

[wari]

I LIke daylight saving ... butt ... it should start LAbour weekend ...

THis years its bina shock tomy system ...

[VivaVee]

daylight saving should be all year. what about riding your bike late in the evening after tea, walking the dogs, kids, wife etc. who cares if it's dark in the morning?

We already have a permanent 'daylight saving' of half an hour. Anyway, who was the inumerate moron who called it daylight saving? I would like to see where the daylight hours are being saved to. Ah. Forgot. They all get sent to the South Pole so that they have 12 months of daylight down there. So if you want 24/7 riding, get snow tyres and emigrate to the Deep South.

[Hitcher]

so you could have been riding around at warp factor 20, and got off in court because you were actually there an hour before you left?

You would have returned to normal time as soon as you had stopped. Doppler shift and all that...

[Hitcher]

I LIke daylight saving ... butt ... it should start LAbour weekend ...

THis years its bina shock tomy system ...

Must resist... Must resist... Must resist...

[jrandom]

You would have returned to normal time as soon as you had stopped. Doppler shift and all that...

By the same token, perhaps that's why it's always the red bikes that are faster than us.

[vifferman]

We already have a permanent 'daylight saving' of half an hour. Anyway, who was the inumerate moron who called it daylight saving? I would like to see where the daylight hours are being saved to. Ah. Forgot. They all get sent to the South Pole so that they have 12 months of daylight down there. So if you want 24/7 riding, get snow tyres and emigrate to the Deep South.

Eggs Zachary.

[jrandom]

It's social engineering, innit.

The Labour gummint making everyone get up and go to work an hour earlier, so that they may engage in relationship-strengthening barbecueing activities thereafter, etc.

Bastards.

Still, makes no difference to me. I get up when the sun starts filtering through the kids' bedroom curtains and hits their photosensitive 'jump up and down in cots and yell at each other' triggers, be it at 5am or 9am.

[Posh Tourer :P]

Must resist... Must resist... Must resist...

Oh go on...

[Ms Piggy]

daylight saving should be all year. what about riding your bike late in the evening after tea, walking the dogs, kids, wife etc. who cares if it's dark in the morning?

I'm with you Marty! I love light evenings! Not a morning person myself so I couldn't care less if it's dark until 8am but gimme evenings full of light (or cash) and I'm happy as. I'm so wrapt that they made it earlier this year too. Means more evening riding - yeeehawwww.

[ching_ching]

Me no complaining. Only timepieces to change were:

Clock on wall
Microwave
Time function on stereo
Clock on bike

My wristwatch, just push a couple of buttons (not bad for $50) and notebook automatically ticks over.



ching

[vifferman]

Me no complaining. Only timepieces to change were:

Clock on wall
Microwave
Time function on stereo
Clock on bike

My wristwatch, just push a couple of buttons (not bad for $50) and notebook automatically ticks over.



ching

I usually do all the clocks, but this time didn't, so that saved me a couple. But it was:
Two digital clocks (easy going forward an hour, hard going forward 23)
The oven clock (always need the manual)
The microwave clock (easy - has a "clock set" button and a dial thingo)
The mini system (as above)
The VCR (oops - forgot to do that; need to turn on the TV and VCR and use the remote)
Two car clocks (need a pointy thing for the 306, but Peter did it this morning with a pen or summat)
The bike's clock/voltmeter thingo (haven't done it yet)
My watch (easy)
My other watch (don't think I'll bother)
Cellphone (Whoops! Missed that till just now)
Digital camera (ditto)
Timer on towel rail (easy)
TV (Or does it pick it up from signals? Have to check...)

Damned clocks...