Setting my clocks back this morning had me thinking about what a great little trick daylight savings is for maximizing use of sunlight hours, but also how impossible it would be to bring in such a scheme today: Labour would launch a protest bus tour (‘Stop the Clock!’), the Business Round Table and CIS would insist that we had to set our clocks forward a thousand hours to catch up with Australia, Herald columnists would thunder about Wellington bureaucrats kidnapping the sun for an extra hour every night, the unions would strike for the right to set their clocks back two hours. The government would compromise and set clocks back five minutes for a week in mid-June.
Maybe this is as good as it gets.
Meh
Comment by Chuck — April 4, 2010 @ 7:31 am
WA voted against daylight saving a few years ago.
Something bizarre about being woken up by the sun at 4:30am.
Comment by marsoe — April 4, 2010 @ 9:00 am
WA voted against daylight saving a few years ago.
Something bizarre about being woken up by the sun at 4:30am.
Comment by marsoe — April 4, 2010 @ 9:00 am
Boy, are you right. Last time I was in Perth it was truly strange. And they voted against daylight savings multiple times.
Comment by Eszett — April 4, 2010 @ 10:07 am
Employers and Manufacturers are arguing that it not go far enough. To bring about the step change we need to genuinely enbiggen our economy, we must use all the tools available to increase the number we come up with to describe productivity, (whatever that word means this week).
If we really want to start being tigers on the number changing front, this sort of airy fairy clock tampering just won’t do. We need to adjust clocks backward one hour just before the penultimate hour before “knock off’ time for salary and wage earners, and re-calibrate their clocks when they toddle their lazy bones off to bed.
Comment by Pascal's bookie — April 4, 2010 @ 11:32 am
Unions go on strike, oh haha classic.
I know satire must be hard sometimes, but couldn’t you have just made another joke about the labour bus? Oh wait…
Comment by taranaki — April 4, 2010 @ 4:50 pm
Yes, how cruelly I have mis-characterised Labour and the unions in comparison with my very fair and sophisticated depiction of the government, Herald, BRT etc
Comment by danylmc — April 4, 2010 @ 5:57 pm
DLS was barely tolerable from late Oct to end of of Feb.
End of Sept to end of March?
Forget it.
All promoted by people who do not have to get up in the dark and go to
work in the dark.
I am sure the wine sippers and G and T sippers in Nelson JUST LOVE DLS,
It takes an hour or so extra to sup their wine or whatever and watch the sun go down from their decks.
Sigh.
For those of us who have to rise from bed at pre 6am hours or be at work at pre 6am hours, DLS is not necessarily welcome.
As I recall DLS was sold on the idea of energy conservation.
Possibly plausible on Nov. Dec. Jan. (Maybe Feb?)
Forget any extension. It came about via Labour “focus group studies”.
Forget any logic.
Did anyone analyse energy use?
Did anyone analyse climatic data?
NO! NO! Focus group says ……………
Comment by peterlepaysan — April 4, 2010 @ 8:20 pm
[...] Danyl ponders on what would happen if a Government tried today to introduce daylight savingL Setting my clocks back this morning had me thinking about what a great little trick daylight savings is for maximizing use of sunlight hours, but also how impossible it would be to bring in such a scheme today: Labour would launch a protest bus tour (‘Stop the Clock!’), the Business Round Table and CIS would insist that we had to set our clocks forward a thousand hours to catch up with Australia, Herald columnists would thunder about Wellington bureaucrats kidnapping the sun for an extra hour every night, the unions would strike for the right to set their clocks back two hours. The government would compromise and set clocks back five minutes for a week in mid-June. [...]
Pingback by Dim-Post on Daylight Saving | Kiwiblog — April 4, 2010 @ 8:26 pm
Strangely enough, Danyl, we got some much-needed extra weeks of Daylight Saving only two years ago, without barely a whimper of protest from anyone.
Even stranger is that this was an initiative of Peter Dunne – probably the only worthwhile thing he has ever done in his long political career.
Personally, I would run it all year round, with an extra half hour of it from the end of the first week of November to the end of the first or second week of February.
Comment by toad — April 4, 2010 @ 9:17 pm
The Soviet Union had daylight saving all year round for about 50 years. I’m not sure how it counts as daylight saving if you have it all year round.
Comment by kahikatea — April 4, 2010 @ 10:30 pm
I heard last week Russia simply abandoned two time zones. I wonder how dark mornings are there now.
Comment by Paul Henry — April 4, 2010 @ 10:45 pm
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