Loophole in Daylight Savings Time

[Winstonm]

I figured out a loophole in this Daylight Savings Time thing - instead of setting my clocks back one hour, I set them ahead twenty-three hours - the beauty of this is that no one will be notice any difference, but when 5:00 p.m. Thursday rolls around, I'll be done for the week.

[nickf]

Brilliant!

 

We've just gone onto Daylight savings time here. Except Queensland, however, they still hold out. Something to do with the extra hour of afternoon sunshine fading the curtains.

 

nickf

sydney

[jillybean]

Brilliant!

 

We've just gone onto Daylight savings time here. Except Queensland, however, they still hold out. Something to do with the extra hour of afternoon sunshine fading the curtains.

 

nickf

sydney

Ozzie logic

[sceptic]

It would be far better if 7am was at daybreak everyday thus eliminating the need to change the clocks once a year

[helene_t]

At my first job, the salary accountants were not sure how to deal with daylight saving - does someone who works from midnight to 8 a.m. get 8 salary for 8 hours, or for the number of hours they worked? The latter seems obvious but the software just subtracted zero from 8. So they gave the employees the benefit of the doubt. 8 hours salary for 7 hours works in spring, and 9 for 9 in the autumn.

[MickyB]

It would be far better if 7am was at daybreak everyday thus eliminating the need to change the clocks once a year

Agreed, except I'd much rather that daybreak was at midday.

[Winstonm]

Obviosly, some countries are better daylight savers than others - Norway has sun at midnight, but here I sit at 6:00 pm and it's getting dark. I wonder if we could sell some of our dark to Norway in exchange for sunshine?

[Gerben42]

Unfortunately our change is at the weekend, meaning that if I do that, my weekend will be 25 hours instead of 49. :(

 

BTW I think daylight savings time should be used 12 months a year. Even in winter I enjoy the 1 hour longer light whereas in the morning I couldn't care less.

 

P.S. How do you tell it's exactly midnight?

 

Solution:

The darkness is directly overhead

 

[skjaeran]

Obviosly, some countries are better daylight savers than others - Norway has sun at midnight, but here I sit at 6:00 pm and it's getting dark. I wonder if we could sell some of our dark to Norway in exchange for sunshine?

Only the part of Norway lying north of the arctic circle has sun at midnight. That's just some 35-40% of the lenght of the country and 25% of the land area. Less than 10% of our population live in there.

 

I was raised just a kilometer or two south of the arctic circle. We didn't have the midnight sun (due to mountains) but it was still almost light as day all night at summer time.