What time is it? (daylight savings)

[Ecthy]

so I was right

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by bongo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

First seriously proposed by William Willett in 1907, first installed in germany, followed by the UK in 1916 (during WW1)

"He lived most of his life in Chislehurst, Kent, where, it is said, after riding his horse in Petts Wood near his home early one summer morning and noticing how many blinds were still down, the idea for Daylight Saving Time first occurred to him."



I bet PH didn't show you the sundial when you were over here, Ecthy?

[bongo]

Oh my, the copyright text that goes with the picture of the sundial is simply hilarious

Oh well, only a day to go until I am able to post in time again...

( Some people were born an hour too late, I have never caught up with mine..)

[Dis]

hmm, reading that Wiki article is kind of interesting (if you like stupid crap like that- like I do).

Daylight savings times does seem kind of silly. Amazingly the airlines are able to do it without crashing any planes. . And my computer will be all screwed up come 2007. oh well.

It does seem like a lot of hassle. Why do we do it?

[Nikolai]

Because the cows need to be milked as close as possible to sunrise at the same time as the farmers need to function in the community.

[bongo]

The bit about energy savings seem like a valid argument. 1% may not sound like much but when we talk about energy spendings of major part of the developed world it's suddenly big $$$

And I never get stuff done in the winter when I get home from work cause it's dark. DST give me one more hour of productive daylight.


I don't know how airlines do it but from my year of national service I remember entering TIMEZONE ZULU whenever we had an excercise. Sure, you get up at weird hours but everything stays the same and suddenly the entire NATO were in the same timezone, eliminating any mistakes involving "When".
(still left us with plenty off opportunities for screwing up over "where", "how" and "why" though)

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Some Lord or other over here in Blighty wants us to change to having British Summertime during the whole year but an extra hour during the summer ? will that make it double summer time, you should all move over here if he gets his way cos its going to be summer all year round with extra side orders of summer during the summer, im off to buy some shares in one or two sun cream companies

[James]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Because the cows need to be milked as close as possible to sunrise at the same time as the farmers need to function in the community.

Eat the cow, milk the soy bean. No more need for daylight saving issues.

[Nikolai]

Soy bean milk? Sounds yucky.

[Paddy]

Bloody hard to milk them little suckers as well

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by ChrisiusMaximus
Some Lord or other over here in Blighty wants us to change to having British Summertime during the whole year but an extra hour during the summer ? will that make it double summer time, you should all move over here if he gets his way cos its going to be summer all year round with extra side orders of summer during the summer, im off to buy some shares in one or two sun cream companies

I'm all for moving the hours forward. Who needs sunrise at 04:40 in the summer? Might as well have it at the end of the day to have sunset at 22:40.

Plus its dark when I go to work and get back in the winter as it is, changing the clock won't effect that.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot
Bloody hard to milk them little suckers as well

. I've tried. I think I was doing it wrong.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Dis


. I've tried. I think I was doing it wrong.

Plus you get them little PU$$ey kitties all wet and then hard to do anything with them

[James]

Grandpa Troll, my what big soy beans you have there.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Its cos the Yanks ain't switched yet. Wait til this Sunday and see....

Yeah, they are always lagging............