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DST (BST)
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 11:40 am
by Cody
Once again, DST is with us! One hundred bloody years of it now! I hate it - all discombobulated, I am!
If the Sun is on the meridian, it should be twelve o'clock, not one o'clock! Time it was scrapped!
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 12:58 pm
by Smivs
<nods in agreement>
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:32 pm
by Wildeblood
DST serves one very important social function: sorting rational people from authoritarian, conformist, mindless people who will tolerate any nonsense.
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:21 pm
by ffutures
Not being a morning person, I find DST preferable - light until much later in the evening.
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:06 pm
by Fritz
Same with me, but I could live with DST in winter too. Not DST is the problem, the changing is the problem. It makes people sick, and it causes more accidents.
The meridian thing is not so important, you just have to get used to it. Look at Spain and France for example - they should use GMT, like Portugal, but they use CET. In China there is only one time zone, although there could be four or even five (this is probably more sensible than four time zones in Australia, where three would be "correct"...).
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:58 pm
by phkb
Fritz wrote:our time zones in Australia, where three would be "correct"
Queenslanders... what can I say?
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:58 am
by Wildeblood
phkb wrote:Fritz wrote:four time zones in Australia, where three would be "correct"
Queenslanders... what can I say?
You could say, "If only Sydneysiders were as smart as Queenslanders, and resisted the DST nonsense too."
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 2:49 am
by phkb
Wildeblood wrote:You could say, "If only Sydneysiders were as smart as Queenslanders, and resisted the DST nonsense too."
Touché.
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 9:33 pm
by Fritz
If the map in Wikipedia is correct, the most strange time zone is in the south-east corner of West Australia. It looks like there is not much more than one village in this area...
I now declare my house to be GMT+0:45!
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:45 am
by spud42
phkb wrote:Fritz wrote:our time zones in Australia, where three would be "correct"
Queenslanders... what can I say?
oi!!! watch it mate!! that extra hour of sunlight will fade my curtains... not to mention it upsets the cows!!!! lol
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 12:52 pm
by Cody
Hooray! Blighty has returned to Zulu time!
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 1:05 pm
by Norby
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 1:08 pm
by Cody
Good on Finland - hope they succeed!
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2017 1:17 pm
by Smivs
My friend John adjusts his bed time over the week before the change to help him cope. This year he got it the wrong way round
Re: DST (BST)
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 5:56 am
by Diziet Sma
Wildeblood wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:58 am
phkb wrote:Fritz wrote:four time zones in Australia, where three would be "correct"
Queenslanders... what can I say?
You could say, "If only Sydneysiders were as smart as Queenslanders, and resisted the DST nonsense too."
Heh.. I maintain that SE Queensland is so far east of Sydney that it should have its own timezone..
