CTime and DayLight saving
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Yet another reason why daylight saving is evil... as if there aren't enough reasons already :mad:
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote:
Yet another reason why daylight saving is evil... as if there aren't enough reasons already :mad:
Yup. Don't get me started about it :rolleyes:
If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it. - Guffa
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Yet another reason why daylight saving is evil... as if there aren't enough reasons already :mad:
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Daylight savings kicks arse.
Steve
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Daylight savings kicks arse.
Steve
Stephen Hewitt wrote:
Daylight savings kicks arse.
Why?
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Stephen Hewitt wrote:
Daylight savings kicks arse.
Why?
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Because when you get home from work there's still same daylight left.
Steve
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Because when you get home from work there's still same daylight left.
Steve
Stephen Hewitt wrote:
Because when you get home from work there's still same daylight left.
Riiiight. So we have daylight saving in summer, when there are already more hours of daylight. Makes a lot of sense. Even without daylight saving, here it stays light until about 8:00pm, now it doesn't get dark until about 9:00pm. Makes it nice and easy for putting kids to bed - "But the sun's still up!". Yeah that makes things nice and easy. Here we have daylight saving over the hottest part of the year, so the hot evening drags on for longer. It stays hot until later at night, making it harder to sleep. On top of that, I'm now driving to work when it's dark instead of in daylight, and driving home before it starts to cool off. If I want to go for a jog or a walk after work, I now have to wait until about 8pm when it starts to cool down, pretty much breaking up the evening completely. At least when I used to go at 7pm, I still had most of the evening where I could go out or do other stuff. I could pretend to understand it if it's in winter, in a place where it's dark by maybe 4pm. But in summer? Where it's light until 8pm anyway? What utter rubbish. I can't comprehend the sheer lunacy that it takes to come up with the idea, or to support it.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Stephen Hewitt wrote:
Because when you get home from work there's still same daylight left.
Riiiight. So we have daylight saving in summer, when there are already more hours of daylight. Makes a lot of sense. Even without daylight saving, here it stays light until about 8:00pm, now it doesn't get dark until about 9:00pm. Makes it nice and easy for putting kids to bed - "But the sun's still up!". Yeah that makes things nice and easy. Here we have daylight saving over the hottest part of the year, so the hot evening drags on for longer. It stays hot until later at night, making it harder to sleep. On top of that, I'm now driving to work when it's dark instead of in daylight, and driving home before it starts to cool off. If I want to go for a jog or a walk after work, I now have to wait until about 8pm when it starts to cool down, pretty much breaking up the evening completely. At least when I used to go at 7pm, I still had most of the evening where I could go out or do other stuff. I could pretend to understand it if it's in winter, in a place where it's dark by maybe 4pm. But in summer? Where it's light until 8pm anyway? What utter rubbish. I can't comprehend the sheer lunacy that it takes to come up with the idea, or to support it.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote:
So we have daylight saving in summer, when there are already more hours of daylight. Makes a lot of sense.
But in the winter I'm less inclined to do anything daylight or not.
Ryan Binns wrote:
Makes it nice and easy for putting kids to bed - "But the sun's still up!". Yeah that makes things nice and easy.
I remember having the same objection as a kid. Not having kids myself I don't have that problem.
Steve
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Ryan Binns wrote:
So we have daylight saving in summer, when there are already more hours of daylight. Makes a lot of sense.
But in the winter I'm less inclined to do anything daylight or not.
Ryan Binns wrote:
Makes it nice and easy for putting kids to bed - "But the sun's still up!". Yeah that makes things nice and easy.
I remember having the same objection as a kid. Not having kids myself I don't have that problem.
Steve
Stephen Hewitt wrote:
But in the winter I'm less inclined to do anything daylight or not.
That's your prerogative. There's a big difference between being able to and being willing to.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Stephen Hewitt wrote:
But in the winter I'm less inclined to do anything daylight or not.
That's your prerogative. There's a big difference between being able to and being willing to.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
True, but the warmth tends to make me more willing although no less able.
Steve
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Stephen Hewitt wrote:
Because when you get home from work there's still same daylight left.
Riiiight. So we have daylight saving in summer, when there are already more hours of daylight. Makes a lot of sense. Even without daylight saving, here it stays light until about 8:00pm, now it doesn't get dark until about 9:00pm. Makes it nice and easy for putting kids to bed - "But the sun's still up!". Yeah that makes things nice and easy. Here we have daylight saving over the hottest part of the year, so the hot evening drags on for longer. It stays hot until later at night, making it harder to sleep. On top of that, I'm now driving to work when it's dark instead of in daylight, and driving home before it starts to cool off. If I want to go for a jog or a walk after work, I now have to wait until about 8pm when it starts to cool down, pretty much breaking up the evening completely. At least when I used to go at 7pm, I still had most of the evening where I could go out or do other stuff. I could pretend to understand it if it's in winter, in a place where it's dark by maybe 4pm. But in summer? Where it's light until 8pm anyway? What utter rubbish. I can't comprehend the sheer lunacy that it takes to come up with the idea, or to support it.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote:
I could pretend to understand it if it's in winter, in a place where it's dark by maybe 4pm. But in summer? Where it's light until 8pm anyway? What utter rubbish.
I've been arguing for double summertime in the winter for years without success. Apparently unlike those who live at higher lattitudes, mid lattitude kids are unable to wait for a schoolbus in the dark without getting killed. :rolleyes::rolleyes: EDIT: If you want to continue this discussion we really should move it to the lounge or soapbox.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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Stephen Hewitt wrote:
Because when you get home from work there's still same daylight left.
Riiiight. So we have daylight saving in summer, when there are already more hours of daylight. Makes a lot of sense. Even without daylight saving, here it stays light until about 8:00pm, now it doesn't get dark until about 9:00pm. Makes it nice and easy for putting kids to bed - "But the sun's still up!". Yeah that makes things nice and easy. Here we have daylight saving over the hottest part of the year, so the hot evening drags on for longer. It stays hot until later at night, making it harder to sleep. On top of that, I'm now driving to work when it's dark instead of in daylight, and driving home before it starts to cool off. If I want to go for a jog or a walk after work, I now have to wait until about 8pm when it starts to cool down, pretty much breaking up the evening completely. At least when I used to go at 7pm, I still had most of the evening where I could go out or do other stuff. I could pretend to understand it if it's in winter, in a place where it's dark by maybe 4pm. But in summer? Where it's light until 8pm anyway? What utter rubbish. I can't comprehend the sheer lunacy that it takes to come up with the idea, or to support it.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"