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|"Nick" wrote in message
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|On Oct 20, 5:36 am, "Darren Prescott"
|wrote:
| I'd opt for double summer time all year round if I could.
|
| I opt for proper time all year round - not changed my clocks in 5 years
and
| I don't see that changing any time soon.
|
| Fiddling with the clocks to make yourself think it's later than it really
is
| reeks of pointlessness to me.
|
|Then we should change the working day so it runs from 8am to 4pm (and
|pub closing times to 10pm, etc). The big problem with winter time
|(though I accept its need in Dec and Jan when the mornings are very
|dark) is that it's very out of kilter with people's waking and working
|lives. That's particularly the case immediately after the clocks go
|back, with daytime lasting around 6.45am to 4.45pm, badly out of sync
|with the working day.
|
|Nick
|

It could be worse. A few years ago I went to Australia and visited the
wonderfully beautiful and remote Kimberley area in the far north of Western
Australia. They are some way east of Perth, but all of WA keeps Perth time.
So, being in the tropics, the sun rises about 0530 and sets at about 1730
local time. The most unpleasantly hot part of the day is the bit they have
to work in, and evening activities take place in the dark.

What we did on our tour was left our watches on Northern Territory time, 90
minutes ahead. This meant we did things at sensible times of day by both
our watches and the sun. As for much of the time we were in the back of
beyond, what the "official" time was mostly didn't matter (some places near
the border "unofficially" run to NT time, anyway), and on the rare occasions
it did we just made the correction. This state of affairs continued until
we reached "civilisation" at Broome, which is also rather further west and
so the sun is more sensibly aligned with standard clock time.
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