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Lig Lira
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Posted - 2005.03.27 12:51:00 -
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Daylight savings is a big steaming heap of crap.
I found this US based website on which you can sign a petition to get rid of it. I couldn't find anything for the UK though .
http://www.standardtime.com/petition.shtml
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MAcheTT3
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Posted - 2005.03.27 13:06:00 -
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Agreed... Other countries don't have it and guess what? No one dies, computers don't freeze, cars don't crash and birds don't fall from the sky... Well, ok some of those things might happen, but it's nothing to do with GMT+1...
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Jinhai Storm
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Posted - 2005.03.27 13:45:00 -
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Edited by: Jinhai Storm on 27/03/2005 13:45:07 I take it neither of you live or work in the UK then? When your up at 5am for a work-shift, DST is a welcome comming, specially in areas where darkness = you being a walking sack of dead meat. DST is there due to the fact that optherwise you'ld have kitds walking to school in the dark at times, and in a lot o british cities, that is NOT a good idea! Too many weirdos and nutcases around.
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Aaldayn
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Posted - 2005.03.27 16:36:00 -
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Edited by: Aaldayn on 27/03/2005 16:36:31 Wasn't the DST made to save oil?
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Ikvar
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Posted - 2005.03.27 20:47:00 -
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I was playing EvE at 12AM this morning and then suddenly my systray clock went 'TWO O'CLOCK'D!!' and I was like 'OMGWTFBBQ!'.
For this reason, it should be abolished. _________________
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Muthsera
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Posted - 2005.03.27 20:59:00 -
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It's called "daylight savings time" for a reason. I don't really recall when it started. But it was after the gmt where finalised atleast. It might have been originated in lamp oil savings though. However I hardly belive it whould have been accepted just becus of that reason.
But as I tried to start whit. DST have it's use. And I for one don't like to wake up at 5 0'clock in the morning. SoonÖ
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Velsharoon
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Posted - 2005.03.27 21:07:00 -
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I believe it was for farmers to have more time for ummm farming during the wars
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Bellac
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Posted - 2005.03.27 21:36:00 -
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I found this on t'internet. Spreads a bit of light on the subject
The form of governmental tampering (with GMT) has generally been the institution of Summer Time, advancing the legal time by one hour during the summer months in order to promote greater efficiency in the use of the daylight hours and of artificial lighting; originally introduced as a wartime measure in 1916, this has been continued through peacetime as well, with occasional variations such as double summer time (advancing the clocks by a second hour for part of the summer) in World War 2ùthe government files on which in the Public Record Office (now National Archives) having, when the closure period was first set (probably late 1960s), been deemed so sensitive as to merit a closure period of 100 yearsùand the experiment with British Standard Time from 1968 to 1972, by which the time was advanced by one hour from GMT throughout the year. In addition, the precise start and end dates and times for Summer Time have been the subject of a great many individual orders
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Dust Puppy
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Posted - 2005.03.27 22:09:00 -
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Well it's useless for me I never wake up till 14.00 __________ Capacitor research |
MooKids
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Posted - 2005.03.27 22:18:00 -
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I have no concept of what you mortals call "time". -------------------------------- CCP can patch away bugs, but they can't patch away stupidity. |
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Lorth
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Posted - 2005.03.28 03:53:00 -
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Wierdly enough I live in the only provience of Canada which does not have any sort of daylight savings time.
Which to be honest, suits me just fine. I have personally never seen a reason for it.
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Maxtor
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Posted - 2005.03.28 04:33:00 -
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The only things it really interferes with are clocks and the TV schedule.
In all honesty, the calendar and clock need to reform. At least make a clock with 24, not 12, hours. The French remade the calendar during the French Revolution, when they remade everything - and quite well, I might add - but reinstating the old calendar was actually one of the peace terms that France had to make after Napoleon was beaten for the first time. I believe the French calendar had 10 days per week, and this is why the rest of Europe wanted to get rid of it; no Sunday, so no church, and thus no way to use the church's power to control the peasants. You know that there is no reason for the year to start when it does, right? Ideally, the year should start at a solstice or equinox. In reality, daylight savings isn't strong enough, the daylight changes by much more than an hour. If someone finally reforms the clock, they will probably base the new hour on the appropriate amount of time to adjust for daylight savings.
In short, everything related to measuring time needs to change, and making daylight savings time a global standard would naturally go along with it. But, it's incredibly unlikely that humans will change the way they record time, like the US's inability to convert to the metric system but far more stubborn, so it won't happen.
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Filiberto
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Posted - 2005.03.28 11:12:00 -
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dunno if it's been said but it was put in to safe monney.wou wouldn't have to put on the lights so early in the evening. I think it was calculated to Ç10 per year per person or household I don't remember Ç10 doesn't seem much but it is in a colective.
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Psymon R
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Posted - 2005.03.28 12:14:00 -
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Edited by: Psymon R on 28/03/2005 12:15:19 Wikipedia gives the following info about DST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
I think it interesting that if the opponents of the current system got their way in the UK... the two ways people have suggested it is done is either to change to CET or keep daylight saving but have CET and CET+1... either way that would mean that Greenwich would never be at GMT...
I also like it that because of the devolution of power in Scotland that the rest of the UK could theoretically change, and Scotland stay as it is...
**edited to make link clickable
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2005.03.28 12:27:00 -
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And reports are showing that during the Cold War Soviet stole great quantities of Saved Daylight, which was hoarded and still is saved in caches deep within the Ural Mountains.
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Typherin laidai
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Posted - 2005.03.29 08:56:00 -
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Daylight Saving in UK is actually to give farmers more time in their fields
Stuff Farmers ... Down with DST !!!
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Verone
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Posted - 2005.03.29 11:37:00 -
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Originally by: Asharee Intrefer And reports are showing that during the Cold War Soviet stole great quantities of Saved Daylight, which was hoarded and still is saved in caches deep within the Ural Mountains.
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