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[alva]

Originally posted by Nikolai
British summer time? Here in Norway we have something called summer time but I've never heard this British part... Does you tea people have some special kind of summer time to make room for some extra tea time?

Yep, they do, as a matter of fact, their summer is very strange indeed, as it is the same as their automn, spring and winter....WET

[DrSpike]

Its always annoying getting up Sunday morning and having your comp tell you you've lost 1 hour. Of course getting a free hour later on in the year is more acceptable.

[Skanky Burns]

And speaking of which, Australia just got an hour back with the end of their daylight saving.

[Dauphin]

If I had my way we would be another hour ahead.First light at 4am is insane when you have an east face window like myself. If we moved another hour forward it would just be dark at about 11pm.

Its more sensible all round.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
And speaking of which, Australia just got an hour back with the end of their daylight saving.

Skanky stole my lie-in!!

Grrrrrrr.

[Reinhard-Baer]

Originally posted by Nikolai
I've heard the reason is that the cows and pigs and such didn't want to cooperate when we humans started the industrialization, and didn't adjust to our timescale when the days got longer. They acted after the daylight, we after the clock!

Perhaps we should teach these animals to act after the clock. Remember we humans can achieve everything it's just a question of how hard we try to convince them. Would save us a lot of trouble

[BigFurryMonster]

Will the time zones adjust?? Not the Poly server (since it is in the US) but the zones itself. For example, Central Europe is now on GMT +2, where Poly says it is on GMT +1. Very annoying.

[badams52]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
If I had my way we would be another hour ahead.First light at 4am is insane when you have an east face window like myself. If we moved another hour forward it would just be dark at about 11pm.

Its more sensible all round.

Not all of us live as far north as you BC.

seems none of you know that the first reason daylight savings time was instituted back during WWI time frame in Germany and Austria was to save energy (and money). http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

edit: grammar

[badams52]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
And speaking of which, Australia just got an hour back with the end of their daylight saving.

And you're also heading into the cold, dark winter while us Northern Hemisphereites are looking forward to warm weather and longer days

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by badams52


Not all of us live as far north as you BC.
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What's with the rolleyes? I'm not asking for all countries to implement it, only the UK.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by badams52
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

The idea was first advocated seriously by a London builder, William Willett (1857-1915), in the pamphlet "Waste of Daylight" (1907) that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. As he was taking an early morning a ride through Petts Wood, near Croydon, Willett was struck by the fact that the blinds of nearby houses were closed, even though the sun was fully risen. When questioned as to why he didn't simply get up an hour earlier, Willett replied with typical British humor, "What?" In his pamphlet "The Waste of Daylight" he wrote

Having lived in Petts Wood to hear someone say "Petts Wood is near Croydon" feels odd.

[badams52]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
What's with the rolleyes? I'm not asking for all countries to implement it, only the UK.

Ah, so by "we" you meant the UK, not "everyone who is affected by DST." Point taken. No offence I hope.

[mactbone]

We're still holding out in our corn bunkers here in Indiana. Heck, no we don't change!

It's really weird around Indianapolis because the networks time delay all non-live stuff an hour so that prime-time is always 8 o'clock. This is in contrast to Northern Indiana which airs the shows the same time they are shown in Chicago (7 o'clock). Cable shows are always shown on Chicago time in both areas though.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by DrSpike


Skanky stole my lie-in!!

Grrrrrrr.

Thanks. That extra hours sleep was wonderful!

[Chowlett]

When questioned as to why he didn't simply get up an hour earlier, Willett replied with typical British humor, "What?"

Oooh, aren't we a witty nation?

I take it it wasn't a brit who wrote that snippet? Generally, we're slightly funnier than that...