09 Mar 08
Originally posted by mlpriorIt's to give us more daylight in the evening, after supper, and not "waste it" in the early morning, when we don't really need it. Supposedly it saves energy, but I'm inclined to doubt that. Retailers love it and farmers hate it. You and I don't like it either. ðŸ˜
What is the point though?
It seems like such a hassle!
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09 Mar 08
Originally posted by shavixmirAs far as I remember the UK is in Europe and as previously mentioned, the UK changes their clocks in Spring and Autumn too ðŸ˜
Americans put their clocks forwards and backwards?
Are you mad or something?
We don't do anything like that here in Europe.
09 Mar 08
Originally posted by RagnorakI was living in Queensland when the vote was held, back in the early 1970s.
They voted against it in Queensland because the extra hour of sunlight would fade the curtains.
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We actually voted against it because Queensland had different business hours from the southern states (we started an hour earlier because of the heat in almost all kinds of employment) and we already had daylight until 10pm in the summer, so it wasn't any benefit to us. The newspapers and talkback radio came up with that curtain-fading thing. Living now in a dairying area, I can see it's a real headache for dairyfarmers - the processing plants (and pickup tankers) go on daylight saving overnight but it takes 6-8 weeks to get the cows to produce their milk at a different time of day (and I'm serious!).
09 Mar 08
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Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveYes, and CEST = Central European Summer Time. I hate it. 😠But at least we still have three normal weeks...
It's not only in the US, we've been doing that for years too. [in the UK]
BST = British Summer Time
DST = Daylight Saving Time.
blah blah blah!
And now I am going to watch Dr. Strangelove. 😀