Daylight savings ends this weekend

milo · Guru

Daylight savings ends this weekend

lyn-n-ken · Senior Member

hi milo

thanks mate, hubby was asking when it finished because he hadn't seen any adds about it.

now i will be able to take credit for know more than him,

lyn

gillyb · Senior Member

Thanks Milo I was wondering the same thing

ozi2 · Guru

milo wrote:
Daylight saving will end in New South Wales on
Sunday 3 April 2011 at 3:00 am

finaly, its hard to keep up with freinds and relies in different states..

Hi Milo..........and thank goodness for that! Here on the NSW?QLD border it is such a disruptional time for 6months of the year. I like daylight saving but when Qld refuses to play the game it creates havoc for locals. Mums and dads, their kids quite often work or go to school in one state or the other. Many a person has missed a flight domestically or internationally because of the confusion. Coolangatta airport is now a very busy international airport.

all the best to you and your dad,

cheers,

ozi2

Happywanderer · The Master

It doesn't worry me, I just go with what ever time is on my watch or phone. I've never seen what the problem is. No different to getting on a plane for overseas and half way there changing the time on your watch, then you just go by that time till you change it again.

Sheba · Guru

I don't like it. I have lived and worked in countries where it is needed, but have never understood why it was even considered for this one, let alone applied.

We don't go to work in the Dark at between 7 & 8 in the morning here, and come home in the dark at the end of the [normal] working day. And we don't still have Broad Daylight at 9-10 at night, so why ?

As for the idiots who believe the garbage about the curtains fading, what can you say ? Total stupidity.

Cheers,
Sheba.

-- Edited by Sheba on Tuesday 29th of March 2011 03:33:19 PM

Happywanderer · The Master

We do down this way in summer Sheba. It always amazes me how up in Qld, dark comes with a straight chop, not like down here where it graduated in.

In Qld, one minute it is daylight, next minute it is dark, theres no in between.

Down here in summer it can easily be light till 9 or 10pm often out gardening that late, in winter a bit earleir of course.

Amuses me how the curtains can fade with daylight saving and the cows get upset and don't give as much milk. Ignore the times and there is exactly the same amount of sun and dark in any one day.

Sheba · Guru

Memory must really be going. I don't remember Daylight at 9 or 10 pm when I lived and worked in Melbourne in the late 70's / early '80's.

Chers,
Sheba.

Happywanderer · The Master

Its 7.30pm now and it is quite daylight outside. Summers well and truly over too. January, can easy be 9 or 10 pm and still daylight.
Whats it like up there now?

Ma · Guru

7.27pm in Ulladulla and you need lights everywhere. Quite dark but not totally yet.

Firefly · Guru

Same as Ma here but real dark in the mornings, hard to get motivated then.

My daughter will be happy Daylight Savings is over with the kids, she can get them to bed nice and early now. smile

Happywanderer · The Master

7.45pm. Have lights on inside, getting dark out but could still walk around in the light thats there.

Cee · Senior Member

I love daylight savings...........it's nice to be able to still enjoy daylight when work is finished for the day. It give so much more time to do the little extras like hanging out the washing......meeting friends down the local for a few drinks and watching the sunset going down over the beach.

IMHO at the onset of daylight saving (around November) daylight begins to fade (here anyway) between 7.30 and 8.00pm but in the middle stages ie January, February, daylight can continue until 9pm in the evening........but in the last month or so before daylight savings ceases, it does start to get dark again between 7.30 and 8.00pm.

I have to agree with Hw, as in my experience whenever I have been in qld, daylight seems to end in about 10 minutes, (it always reminds me of the old cartoons where a blind is drawn and night immediately descends) whereas here it starts to wan gradually.

Geez what started as a one or two sentence reply seems to have ended in something akin to War & Peace confuse

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