Dim-Post on Daylight Saving
April 4th, 2010 at 8:25 pm by David FarrarDanyl ponders on what would happen if a Government tried today to introduce daylight savingL
Setting my clocks back this morning had me thinking about what a great little trick daylight savings is for maximizing use of sunlight hours, but also how impossible it would be to bring in such a scheme today: Labour would launch a protest bus tour (‘Stop the Clock!’), the Business Round Table and CIS would insist that we had to set our clocks forward a thousand hours to catch up with Australia, Herald columnists would thunder about Wellington bureaucrats kidnapping the sun for an extra hour every night, the unions would strike for the right to set their clocks back two hours. The government would compromise and set clocks back five minutes for a week in mid-June.
I know its satire, but deep down you also know that some of it is true!
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April 4th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
It’s time to throw the clock out altogether..
Vote:April 4th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
It only affects the cows. The simple thing is you start work later now and finish later.
What’s the big deal clockwatchers? Stand at the door at 4.45 to 4.59 ready to escape each day? Phones off, answerphone on, ring ring. Nope that will be important, it will wait until tomorrow.
Yes it is satire but when did the 9-5 have a sense of humour?
Vote:Btw Wellington has sun and gets an extra hour? Obvious, stealing it from Auckland. It is dark here
April 4th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Labour would launch a protest bus tour (‘Stop the Clock!’), was amusing.. then it just got silly.. like a nerd trying to be funny.
Vote:April 4th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Strangely enough, DPF and Danyl, we got some much-needed extra weeks of Daylight Saving only two years ago, without barely a whimper of protest from anyone.
Even stranger is that this was an initiative of Peter Dunne – probably the only worthwhile thing he has done in his long political career.
Personally, I would run it all year round, with an extra half hour of it from the end of the first week of November to the end of the first or second week of February.
Vote:April 4th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Why all year Toad?
It was near dark at 7am this past week, some of us have been up for a considerable length of time before the sun rises.
I enjoy daylight saving but I do think it runs a bit long now.
Vote:April 4th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
I glad the damn thing is over, it’s a right nuisance this time of the year. Who wants to get up in the dark?
I worked out once that although only three weeks were supposed to be added to DLS, they have actually added FOUR; one week at the beginning and three weeks at the end. I know this because I have not patched my computer to allow for the new changeover and so am aware of when it was originally supposed to change.
Some people have this crazy idea that if Daylight Saving goes for longer then somehow so will Summer.
It’s just another idea they pushed through without consulting anyone; I think Dunne and his cohort got something like 3000 signatures from sports clubs and the like and that was deemed (somehow) to be enough.
I wish they’d put it BACK to how it was. Daylight Saving definitely shouldn’t start before Labour Weekend.
Vote:April 4th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
I always love the story of the old lady who complained when daylight savings was introduced that the extra hour of sunlight in the evenings was making her curtains fade faster.
Vote:April 4th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
any daylight before 10am is a waste
Vote:April 4th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
@big bruv 9:55 pm
I am up between 5:00am and 5:30am almost every day of the year, and at work by 7:00am. I don’t care if it is dark or light going to work.
What I do care about is that I have no opportunity to tend my garden when I get home after work – because it is already dark.
Vote:April 4th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Tend to the bloody thing in the morning Toad…
In the winter it is supposed to be dark at night, if we can have a bit of light in the morning then that is fine by me, it also makes walking the pack a lot easier if I can see where the little buggers are…:)
Vote:April 5th, 2010 at 6:35 am
Very good Danyl. There’s a similar story about various groups aboard the Titanic. My memory is that Federated Farmers called an emergency meeting and passed a remit.
Vote:April 5th, 2010 at 7:41 am
I thought the Greens would hate it .. the extra hour of sun would add the the global warming issue
Vote:April 5th, 2010 at 7:48 am
It doesn’t mean much to us retired people. We only need a clock to know when our favourite tv programmes are coming on.
Vote:April 5th, 2010 at 7:54 am
I have never understood why the dairy farmers and the down stream industries do not simply adjust their working hours to match the sun instead of bleating around and upsetting a good idea for the rest of us.
Vote:With refridgeration we don’t need to have milk delivered daily, actually I am supprised how far ahead the ‘used by date’ is on the bottles I buy from the dairy. Though I remember in my childhood milk arriving in a can and being scooped out into our jug every morning by the dairymaid. [ during WWII, Midlands UK ] I guess it wasn’t pasteurised so we had to get fresh each day.
April 5th, 2010 at 8:13 am
Hell, we simply milked our cow every morning, left the milk to stand in a cool dairy overnight, skimmed the thick half inch of cream off the top and that was that. Oh yeah, the calf got what was left during the day and was separated from Mum in the evening.
That cream used to come of in a bloody great slab! Marvellous on hot scones with blackberry jam.
Vote:April 5th, 2010 at 9:26 am
If you want more daylight hours then just get up earlier in the morning you lazy shits.
Vote:April 5th, 2010 at 9:39 am
I would run DST all year round too..
Because I like sun in the evenings in summer. And because the main complaint from people who don’t like DST seems to be that they get a kind of jet-lag from the time zone shifting. And farmers, of course, whose cows don’t use clocks. Both of these problems are solved by moving to GMT+13 all year round.
It’s always going to be dark in the mornings in winter; I’m not too concerned about it being a bit darker still..
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