Daylight Saving

[Punk Rooster]

I LOVE that this has ended.
I wake naturally at 6-6:30 now, have plenty of time to get ready for work etc...

I for one would like daylight saving abolished- how many others agree?

nb. as a kid, i loved it- play sport until late.

[hearts on fire]

I love it when there is NO day light savings, train at night at footy, love it.

[Johno6]

i like it light when we train, i hate trainign with the lights on it annoys hell out of me..

would be better if we played more night games

[Tooting Bec]

Daylight Savings is Awesome.

I get home from work each day at 6 30pm so there isn't much daylight now for me to do things around the house.

Bring on October and dylight Savings again!

[Brock Landers]

Daylight saving is great if you work 9 to 5.

Not so great if you start at 7 and finish at 3, except for January and Febuary. It's been tough driving to work in the dark for the last month, I've felt a lot more alert this week getting up with a bit of natural light..

[MightyEagles]

It was on too long this summer, prefer if it was a little shorter so all of the proper football season could be on normal time.

[Sojourner]

I wish I had cut it out, yet I read an interesting series of letters in the Gold Coast Bulletin on Daylight Savings with people whinging that they dont have it in QLD, this chap wrote back and stated that the Culture of the Gold Coast is that people go surfing prior to work and that if people want to do stuff in the daylight outside of work, simply get up earlier! - The chap added that he had a gutfull of people of moving up to the coast from Melbourne and wanting everything changed to suit themselves and suggested that they might like to simply F*** off back to Victoria if they dont like it, - thought it was a fair enough comment really!

[smac]

Love it, but too long this year. The last 2 or 3 weeks was a nightmare to wake up in the dark.

Can't beat a November/December evening sitting outside with a group of friends, enjoying the extra daylight with a beer in hand.

[Q.]

My sentiments exactly Smac, love it, but should have finished at end of March.

[Pseudo]

I like daylight savings, but it starts too early (SANFL GF weekend FFS!?!) and finishes too late. It could easily be shortened by a month or so at either end.

[Psyber]

It might make more sense to use daylight saving time in the summer if we started from correct zone time - 1 hour behind the eastern states and 1 hour ahead of Perth.
However, now, I think they start it too soon and end it far too late.
I never have liked getting up before it is light out - now I wake naturally before the alarm clock goes off.

EDIT: In general I'd rather not have daylight saving, but if we must go back to zone time and run it from there..

[Bully]

daylight savings should be scrapped. Nothing worse then it being 40+ temperature during the summer and its still daylight at 9pm. the house has no time to cool down and its still blistering hot at midnight, no sleep etc.

QLD doesnt have daylight savings, its fantastic. But during the summer months the sun is up at 4:30am in the morning here.

[A Mum]

I agree bulldog.

NT doesn't have it either... and although the sun came up alot earlier up there,
I much prefered that than daylight savings.

For me I think it's the whole, adjusting of the clocks,
Adjusting of the body/mind thing

[therisingblues]

Japan doesn't have it at all. Most people don't even know what it is. I think with the amount of workaholics that exist in this country it would be too hard to convince them of the benefits of an extra hour of leisure time in the afternoon.
I miss it!

[FlyingHigh]

I like daylight savings, but it starts too early (SANFL GF weekend FFS!?!) and finishes too late. It could easily be shortened by a month or so at either end.

Agree Pseudo and smac.

If we go by the equinox, then finishing April 4-5th is equivalent of starting around Sept 10th. Crazy.

I would like to see it start Oct 10th-ish (probably the weekend after the long weekend) being two-three weeks after the Sept solistice, and finish around March 10th at latest, again two weeks before March solistice.

[FlyingHigh]

Also, as referred to above, Qld does not have it. Just wondering if anyone knows whether Adelaide's longest days are longer and our shorter days are shorther because we are so much further towards one of the poles?

[Psyber]

Also, as referred to above, Qld does not have it. Just wondering if anyone knows whether Adelaide's longest days are longer and our shorter days are shorther because we are so much further towards one of the poles?

Yep, the further you are from the equator the longer you summer day light is and the shorter your winter light is - it reaches maximum difference at the poles.
JAS would know! She's nearer one of the geographic poles than any of us in Oz.

[gadj1976]

DS goes too long. Starts too early and finishes too late. Dunno what they are trying to achieve by doing that. I finish up going to work in pitch black.

[gadj1976]

Also, as referred to above, Qld does not have it. Just wondering if anyone knows whether Adelaide's longest days are longer and our shorter days are shorther because we are so much further towards one of the poles?

Dunno, but by crikey my grandma's curtains fade more because of daylight saving.

[Hondo]

daylight savings should be scrapped. Nothing worse then it being 40+ temperature during the summer and its still daylight at 9pm. the house has no time to cool down and its still blistering hot at midnight, no sleep etc.

So, under your plan, when it's still blistering hot at 11pm (instead of midnight) how much cooler is it at midnight? Does that 1 hour make all the difference?

If there wasn't daylight saving it would still light (and hot) at 8pm!

I'm with smac & quichey & co ... love DLS but it could have finished earlier