It was mikelom's question about timezones that reminded me of this.
Queensland Australia, about 15 years ago, decided by referendum not to have Daylight Saving. The big problem is that the other two states of Australia on the east coast, NSW and Victoria, both have daylight saving.
At the time the arguments against trolled out were amazing. Bear in mind that QLD is a mostly rural state, but 75% of the population live in the Metropolitan areas of Brisbane and Surfers Paradise. Anyway, here are some of the brilliant ideas that were put forward to stop Daylight Saving.
"It would confuse the cows, they wouldn't know what time to get milked as cows aren't very smart"
"It will fade the curtains. The Queensland sun is very harsh, and an extra hour could really do some damage"
"It would be uncomfortable having dinner at 8 pm and it still being daylight"
The arguments for were:
"Sydney is the business capital of Australia and it has Daylight Saving"
"Co-coordinating differences in flights, phone call rates, meetings and general business between the states will be more difficult without daylight saving than with."
"The Australian population is more transient and having a shifting time difference throughout the year is going to make doing business in Queensland awkward."
As history recalls, the country folk's faded curtains won over the city people's pressing need to do business. So in the border city of Coolangatta-Tweed Heads everyone needs two watches for half the year.
Originally posted by KewpieYeah, and an extra hour of looking for canetoads with the cricket bat would have helped an all 😵
It was mikelom's question about timezones that reminded me of this.
Queensland Australia, about 15 years ago, decided by referendum not to have Daylight Saving. The big problem is that the other two states of Australia on the east coast, NSW and Victoria, both have daylight saving.
At the time the arguments against trolled out were amazing. Bear in min ...[text shortened]... r city of Coolangatta-Tweed Heads everyone needs two watches for half the year.
It actually causes some grief here where the city meets the country. Milk processing factories and their tankers observe daylight saving time, but it takes 2 to 3 weeks for dairy cows to adapt to their new milking times. Since there's a very tight timetable for fresh milk storage that means 6 weeks a year of unhappy cows and volume drop-offs. So even in these temperate latitudes (around 38S here) it's not an unalloyed good thing.