"daylight savings"... why?

who here understands the point of it?

everytime a conversation starts up around the office about "gaining" an hour (and all the associated second-guess math) i feel like i get dumber just for hearing it.

for me all it does is make me either late or early for something twice a year as i can guarantee that no matter how dull my life is, there will be something i'm supposed to do on the morning it changes over. oh, that and because i werk with gps i have to keep track of it so that our data is in synch, and there's always problems around the changeover time that need manual labour.

i made a comment that it's made by idiots for idiots, wasn't well recieved as one guy piped up saying "well arsehole i personally like getting home from werk and having more daylight to spend with my kids", so i suggested why don't we just leave the clock forward? i dunno, i guess when it's daylight savings time it won't feel like you're getting any extra daylight.

wtf

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ps. because our office-clocks are set by satellite, they're all wrong because of the commonpoverty games.

 

it needs to be stopped. all that extra sunlight is fading my curtains. more to the point, why is SA still 1/2 hour behind (but 5 years ahead ) of VIC/NSW?

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909915 should of got the office patched

 

i like it.

 

Didn't work up here - the cows didn't know what time they were supposed to get milked!

 

we're actually 23 hours AHEAD up here Horse

NB: and 23 years behind .... that's a GOOD thing!!

 

Daylight savings.............Just like Ferris Bueller,It needs to be saved

 

Does that mean it is 1983? ...I'm going outside to look for my X19!

 

i hate it,stupid daylight saving,who came up with such an idea

 

the nightwatchman

 

damn nightwatchman,i'll get him one night or day

 

I'm with Ash. Pick a timezone and stick to it. Like we did in WA, and like we continue to do whenever they have a referendum about it

 

Yep, I've been going to Timezone in Freo for years.....won't go anywhere else.

 

Don't get me started on that kind of timezone... those bastards are the reason I got such a terrible TEE score

 

I never got into it, went last night for the first time in ages because it just happened to be across the road from where we were sitting having coffee.

 

don't have them here anymore, just pokies.

i remember all-night lock-ins, they were great. me and my mate hogged final lap and hard drivin for the night.

 

i worked for Timezone for a couple of years, talk about slave labour.

i cant see why theres any left at all (i know most of them closed for various reasons), but why pump your coins into a machine when your Xbox or PS is such a better alternative these days?

 

yeah we pretty much stopped going to arcades when we got NBA Jam on the SNES.

only arcade i've played since was Sega Rally and F355 Challenge.

 

just so you know...there's nothing like the real thing.

 

Sega Rally?

 

You're right... I've never seen an arcade machine with an oil leak.

 

you've never seen a real 355ch with one either! smarty pantelones

 

Russell Morris?

he's playing at the Cavern in adelaide this saturday.

 

ya gotta be kidding? have you seen him lately? he looks 150 years old!

 

speaking of 150 years old, how about a belated birthdya coffee and lunch tomorrow, we could con Scott into coming and paying for us all ?