Yaay! I knew you'd be along sooner or later, noss
I'll take this one step at a time:
narxysus, are you a 70yo trapped in the body of a 20-something-yo?
Sometimes, I think I might be, yes.
- there is NO EXTRA LIGHT for a start, so saying the daylight hours are being extended further than normal summer is just a tad silly.
I don't believe I have stated it as you put it. Look at it this way. The sun rises at 5am, and sets at 7pm. Say I always get up at 6am. I'm awake during 13 hours of sunlight, no? Introduce daylight savings. I still get up at 6am, but now that's an hour earlier. So the sun now sets at 8pm. Now I'm awake during 14 hours of daylight. So during any given day, daylight savings does in fact force me to experience more sunlight.
- when you wake up in the morning, because your clocks are set forward another hour, thats 1 less hour the sun has been up. so there has been less time for heat to generate, and you get to enjoy a slightly cooler morning.
A slightly cooler morning does not offset a slightly hotter evening, in my opinion.
- driving in the daylight is far safer than driving at night. although then this does bring up the point that you'll be driving at dusk, but it sounds like you do that currently anyway. so enjoy the safer period of 'extra' light that you have. if you're scared of dusk. buy a volvo.
There are about 2 hours before sunset where the sun is really gay to drive under. I generally start work 1 hour before sunset. Daylight savings makes that 2 hours = poopy.
if you're opposed to daylight savings thats cool.. but in reality its a handy little thing to have, it gives you that bit of extra time to do things in the afternoon.. the time is shifted 1 hour to make more of the daylight usable, whats the point of the sun being up shortly after 4am if you're just going to sleep through it?
Because it's hot and unpleasant? In summer, the sun rises earlier and sets later than in winter. Ergo, the time we can use daylight is already longer, by at least an hour in the evening. Why are we needing more?
so you hate daylight.. thats cool too.. just buy a radioactive protection suit and a welders mask. you'll remain as white and as pasty as you've ever been. also the comment 'what about the people up north, the sun wont go down til 10pm..' um.. have you been 'up north' to even know when the sun sets anyway?
I plan to not die of skin cancer. 15 minutes in the sun gets you all the vitamin D you need in a day. Anything more is asking for cancer, in my opinion
Also, that comment about people in the north wasn't by me.
common sense and a simple highschool education will tell you that as you get closer to the equator, the change in the length of days in summer and winter are lesser than experienced in areas further from the equator, so people closer to the equator would actually benefit from daylight savings more than people in the south.
Not really understanding the thrust of this. I agree with you here, but how is it relevant?
also, i've not yet been to the wonderful land of western australia, but last time i checked, perth was around the lame line of lattitude as sydney.. melbourne is much further south than perth, and the latest i've seen the sun up in melbourne during daylight savings is around 8:50pm. so i doubt the sun will be up in perth until 10pm. to back me up, i found this little site with a quick google search (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=196) the sun will set today in perth a 7:05pm meaning that with daylight savings, the sun will set at 8:05pm far from 10pm.
I never mentioned anything about 10pm sunset
also saying daylight savings should be in winter and not summer.. tad on the silly side too. if you've ever been to melbourne, tassie, which are coincedentally both further south than perth/wa, sunrise isnt until around 7:40am.. so pushing the clock an hour forward in the winter means that the sun wont rise until 8:40.. why on earth you'd want to travel to work, and even spend your first hour of work in darkness is beyond me.
Now I can't understand why you would think this is stupid. Mid summer, there's 14 hours of available sunlight, according to my 2005 Astronomy Almanac. Mid winter, there's around 10 hours of available sunlight. The sun rises around 7.15am and sets at 5.30pm. So assuming the average worker starts work at 8am, they're going to be getting up when it's barely light out. They're also going to be getting home just as the sun is setting. So, introduce daylight savings. Now people are getting up when it's dark, and by the time they get to the office, the sun will just be rising. I don't see why this would be a bad thing, as you seem to think it is - most people work in a closed building, so I don't understand the difference between it being light outside or not when you're at work.
The key thing now, however, is that people should be getting home with one hour more useable daylight. They will actually have time to do stuff outside, because the sun won't have set by the time they get home. Makes far more sense than having it in summer, when people already have 2 more hours of useable light in the evening compared to winter anyway.
I'm open to giving daylight savings a go (not that I have to be THANKS STATE GOVERNMENT!), but I just don't think I'm going to like it.