I know queenslanders try to pretend daylight saving doesnt exist, but will the forum clock be updated for the real world?

My time is out by 12 hours...

go into your controll panel and to edit profile, then go down to the time and make it (GMT +11hr) madagan, new caledonia ..... etc etc


simple

Daylight saving sux! why don't we have it in winter when the days are short?
Rob...

Sweet, thanks man...you learn something new everyday :thumb

My puter is set to automatically change over to daylight savings time

Wish the rest of the clocks in the house were:jesus

I love daylight saving, especially when the weather if fine, so nice to get out into the garden after work, go for a drive and a walk along a beach, and for you guys it must mean more time out in the shed

When you are stuck doing rotating shift work it realy makes no difference.

Wish QLD would bite the bullet and join the rest of Australia with daylight saving.

I think were more than an hour behind Australia, but I guess that's why it's such a great place to live.

PS: I'm an ex New South Welshmen and know how good daylight saving is.

queensland is not just an hour behind. Its 10 years and 1 hour behind :P

The reason we dont have it in winter is because the kids would be going to school in the dark.

and the cows dont know when to be milked, the curtains fade more from the extra hour of sunlight and the clocks will wear out faster fitting in the extra hour.......

yeah, sux not having daylight savings here in Qld. Amazer is right, Qld is still just a step out of the dark ages.....

Ok looks like everyone else likes daylight savings, I guess I must be a Vampire! I cant stand going to bed at 10 pm and it is still light. I spose Ill just have to drink more Beer!
Rob....

The unfortunate answer is that although I can skew the board's time by x seconds, this will stuff everyone up, particularly our non-DST and non-AEST readers (ie those in the UK).

So unfortunately, the answer for people in daylight savings time zones, yes, you need to pretend to be in New Calendonia.

Andrew

now let me get this right...u all like having to change ur clocks by 1 hr twice a year...get over it.. its always sunny here... Us in the stoneage??? Daylight savings sucks and has always sucked...

and the cows can go milk themselves....

time is not a measure of how much light there really is...is is a system so that everyone rocks up to stuff at the same time....sure origonally it was to do with the sun..but now it is not.

I recon it should be the same time everywhere at once....swatch have the right idea:thumb

lol:P..it is really early in the morning and it is dark

i`m with DoNkEy it sucks big time ... up here in the top of queensland in the mid summer it does not get dark untill 8.oopm... then combine that with the fact that you work outside untill you can not see then add daylite saving you don`t go to bed untill 12.00 .the kids have to go to bed with the sun still shining ...try explaining that to a kid :puke

Actually, the more north you get, the less of a problem DST is to the average person who works outside.

Here's the twilight figures (ie the terminator has just arrived, what most people would call pre-dawn where the sky is just starting to turn from black to a dusky dark blue) for Hobart and Cairns, without DST:

Without DST, Dec 21 (summer solstice in AU this year)

Place Sunrise Sunset
Hobart 03.53 20.24
Cairns 05.16 19.13

Cairns goes dark literally at 7.13 pm, so by 7.30 pm, it is completely dark. If you're playing golf, it would be unplayable from about 6.30 pm onwards without DST in Cairns.

With DST, Dec 21 (summer solstice in AU this year (winter solstice is Dec 22 in the US)):

Place Sunrise Sunset
Hobart 04.53 21.24
Cairns 06.16 20.13

In winter solstice (June 21 this year), Cairns's sunrise time is 06.21.

So arguments against DST based upon hours you can do stuff without artificial light is pure rubbish, particularly the further north you go. Always has been, always will be.

Andrew

Im with donkey and wadd, DAYLIGHT SAVING IS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think the guy who invented it should be lynched, never mind trying to explian it to a kid, i dont even understand it.:P

I grabbed this from Astronomy Picture of the Day:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030424.html 

The picture below is that of the terminator, which softly delinates areas where the sun is visible (daylight) and those where it is not (night).

Twilight is towards the left hand side. You can see it sort of fades in. "Dawn" is when you can actually see the sun, which is usually about 20-30 minutes later.

Personally I love daylight savings, gives me more time to spend outside with the kids when I get home from work

hah. go to sweden or norway. then you will find out how little daylight savings matters. in winter it's always dark...summer it's always light (or is it the other way aroung )