Daylight saving

Don't get me started.

I say abolish the stupid thing once and for all. Split the different, everybody moves back a half hour (or whatever direction evens it out), and be done with it forever. DLS is, IMO, one of the dumbest ideas of all time. I have heard all the reasons for it, and none of it makes sense to me.

Cheers
Shad

Depends where you live VJ.

I mean as a kid I used to go west coast of Ireland , sunset was hhmm 50 minutes later than in London, so I understand why they do it. Some places are more effected by it than others.. esp. places in Northern Europe. Helps them maximise the sunlight.

The subtle changes in the seasons does add up. Even in the UK, say Scotland.. kids going to school in the winters.. it'd be even darker when they went / came home from school.

I did find it funny when Oz changed their times and windows had to be updated as well.

I have a clock on my desk and another on the bookshelf in my bedroom.... which are right 6 months of the year.... I never change them.... I have about about 12 or so other closcks on th ehouse... not counting the cars..... they do need to be changed.... thermostat and kitchen stuff... they have to be right......

I like the "fall back" stuff OK...extra hour of sleep... the "spring ahead" bites...

I moved to Brisbane and lost daylight savings time...count yourself lucky I miss it bigtime, summer's just not the same when it gets dark at 6pm

I think its lame as well. But I don't worry about it, as the only clocks I use automatically switch (Cable box, computers, iPhone). I don't wear watches cuz I ALWAYS lose them. My mom used to give me a watch for Christmas every year, and I always managed to lose it by my birthday (Feb. 24). Finally I told her "don't buy me a watch next year, cuz I'm gonna lose it." What did I get for Christmas that year? 4 Simpson's watches from McDonald's happy meals and a "Jackson 5 Victory Tour" watch from 1984ish...and this was in 1997. She thought it was SOOOO funny...so I went along with the joke. I wore them everywhere and everybody loved hearing Homer, Bart, and the King of Pop do their thing...I would play them over and over and over at the dinner table just to annoy her...I think the average lifespan of those watches was like 45 days or so...once they all died, she never bought me a watch again...

so everyone in the states would work 7 hours behind.. = night shift..hehe

No, we'd start work at the same time, it would just be called 12:00 AM. Absolute times would eventually lose their traditional connotations.

Why does lunch have to be at 12:00 PM? Anyone who does work a night shift will say they take "lunch" at, say, 4:00 AM and it's perfectly natural. We'd soon associate 20:00 with lunchtime and think nothing of it.

All those telemarketers and phone support folks in India have created an entire subculture of people who work the night shift so as to be in sync with North America and Europe. Traditional times of day must mean nothing to them. I imagine local businesses have adjusted accordingly, too, keeping late hours to accommodate the night workers.