Daylight saving in NSW

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:00:30 +0000, Neredbojias wrote:

[putolin]
 
>
> The world doesn't turn.  It is stationary; the rest of the universe just
> revolves around it.

What you are catholic?



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On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:26:40 +0200, Johan W. Elzenga wrote:

> Baho Utot <baho-utot@invalid.org> wrote:
> 
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> What part of "It's about having one more hour of daylight during the
> period that people are active" didn't you understand?

Nothing,  You have exactly the same amount of "daylite" DST only
re-lables it.

You don't gain or get anything.

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Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

On 30 Mar 2008, Baho Utot <baho-utot@invalid.org> wrote:
 
>
> What you are catholic?

No, but I get dizzy easily.

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Great sights and sounds

On the other hand, if you look in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia you will
find a new zoneinfo file for Eucla. Yes, after many years, Apple have
(like Linux and FreeBSD) added the Mid West Australian time zone to
their files. So the hundred or so people near the WA border can now be
45 minutes away from Perth time, and 45 minutes away from Adelaide time.

No GUI interface to it. Boo!

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Neredbojias <me@http://www.neredbojias.com/_eml/fliam.php> wrote:
 
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> I beg to differ.  All that clock-changing is one royal PITA.  It would
> be _much_ simpler to have something like a "time-offset" twice per year
> wherein everything occurs an hour earlier in spring and later in fall as
> a matter of course.

We agree that we disagree. Changing the clocks takes me five minutes,
and then I can forget that I even did it. Using a 'time offset' for half
a year means I constantly have to remember that we did, so that regular
meetings and other scheduled things are suddenly rescheduled. That would
indeed be a PITA for my computerized diary.

It would also cause lots of little misunderstandings and disagreements.
Let's say that we work in the same office, and we have a wly meeting
at 10.00 AM each monday. Would that meeting change to 9.00 AM too? You
probably say that it does, but I may disagree. Why would the meeting
have to change? The fact that we now come into the office one hour
earlier has little or nothing to do with our meeting, so as far as I'm
concerned 10.00 AM means 10.00 AM. BTW, wouldn't it be silly if the Nine
O'Clock News was suddenly at eight? Just setting the clock one hour
earlier avoids all those problems.


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Baho Utot <baho-utot@invalid.org> wrote:
 
>
> Nothing,  You have exactly the same amount of "daylite" DST only
> re-lables it.
>
> You don't gain or get anything.

You did indeed not understand a word of it, so let me try once more.
I'll type it slowly:

It's not about gaining an hour of daylight each day. It's about gaining
an hour of daylight  d u r i n g   t h e   t i m e   t h a t    y o u
a r e   a w a k e.


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Editor / Photographer     http://www.johanfoto.com

Warren Oates wrote:
> In article <13uue50sovdbeef@corp.supernews.com>,
>  Phil Kempster <phil@kempster.info> wrote:
> 
>
> Venezuela?

No, South Australia - Chavez copied us  ;-)

And we don't change over until next wend - screwing up all of the
auto-programmed changes.
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Phil Kempster
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In article <Xns9A70DEB3D4A3neredbojiasnano@85.214.90.236>,
Neredbojias <ex@example.com> wrote:

> ...if they want to adjust work and school start times, etc.,
> go ahead, but leave the clock itself alone.

So let's get really clear on this Boji, you are saying that you would
not mind if work and school start and finish times were adjusted and
things like that. So if Adrienne's cow, Bessy was trained to give milk
earlier or later twice a year, you would not mind. And if we worked out
how to adjust the spinning of the earth, you would not mind and so on.

You would only pipe up an objection if anyone fiddled with the clock. My
dear dear Boji, why o why does it not occur to you and your fellow DLS
haters that the clock is adjusted because it is so much easier than
adjusting these other things. It is the magic short cut. I suspect you
simply don't like magic.

I like magic and I like DLS.


(btw. You try swimming in the bloody dark in the sea with those sharks
about)

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dorayme

In article <iknjz6mt7eq0$.afhka9vdzhfq$.dlg@40tude.net>,
Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:

> Toby A Inkster wrote:
> 
>
> Would make it a bit difficult for long distance travellers I think.

Absolutely not.  If you have an eight hour flight from NYC, you would
arrive 8 hours by all the clocks after you departed.   That is the
reason that the USAF keeps UMT, calling it Zulu.

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good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good
people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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In article <Xns9A717A26F16B8neredbojiasnano@85.214.90.236>,
Neredbojias <me@http://www.neredbojias.com/_eml/fliam.php> wrote:

> On 30 Mar 2008, Baho Utot <baho-utot@invalid.org> wrote:
> 
>
> The world doesn't turn.  It is stationary; the rest of the universe just
> revolves around it.

Gawd, another Bush republican.

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good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good
people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg