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Old 11-01-2009, 03:35 PM   #16
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I HATE this time of year!by the solstice it is dark before 1600, and of course it isn't light until almost 8 in the morning. whenever I start feeling really sorry for myself, I think of the Canada... everyone is more north and darker than here. normally what gets me through the winters is teaching skiing but by all accounts we are to have a warm low snow winter
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Old 11-01-2009, 03:40 PM   #17
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Does anyone know the star-date?
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Old 11-01-2009, 03:46 PM   #18
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oh my! no doubt a few here have it as a desktop shortcut
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Old 11-01-2009, 10:27 PM   #19
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I read somewhere that it's based on the old Roman calendar, but I have no idea if DST is a part of it.
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Old 11-01-2009, 10:48 PM   #20
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I HATE this time of year!by the solstice it is dark before 1600, and of course it isn't light until almost 8 in the morning. whenever I start feeling really sorry for myself, I think of the Canada... everyone is more north and darker than here. normally what gets me through the winters is teaching skiing but by all accounts we are to have a warm low snow winter
Well, I'm happy we're making you feel better!
I'm serioulsy considering buying one of these this year, it would help a great deal.
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We don't have DS time in our state (Queensland). I think the states that do turned their clocks forward a couple of weeks ago. It'd be nice to have DS, to extend the evening beach time here. Unfortunately as well, the birds wake with the slightest of light in the east, and that can be before 4am in summer (the noise comes across from the headland east of us in a slow, brightening wave). We're lucky this year, in that we've neither Koel nor Blue-Faced "pluck-a-duck" bird nor Butcher Bird waking by our bedroom window.

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Old 11-01-2009, 11:02 PM   #22
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Does anyone know the star-date?
Yes, but there are several contradictory dates. The system changed several times.
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Old 11-02-2009, 04:10 AM   #23
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I HATE this time of year!by the solstice it is dark before 1600, and of course it isn't light until almost 8 in the morning. whenever I start feeling really sorry for myself, I think of the Canada... everyone is more north and darker than here. normally what gets me through the winters is teaching skiing but by all accounts we are to have a warm low snow winter
Don't forget us Europeans... Considering New York is on the same height as Madrid, which we generally find far in the south...
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Old 11-02-2009, 05:09 AM   #24
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Daylight saving time was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist ...
Good job it wasn't an antipodean who designed the pocket watch and other clocks - the hands would then have gone the other way around....
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Old 11-02-2009, 03:05 PM   #25
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Old 11-02-2009, 03:50 PM   #26
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I just get up an hour earlier, and go to bed an hour earlier too.

Round about now actually - good night all! zzzz
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What annoys me the most is that Daylight Saving switching date now moves around. It used to be set so computer maufacturers automated it. Now the automatic setting and the real setting don't match.

This year I had 2 computers and 2 pocket pcs and a phone that I had to change. THEN about two weeks later they changed themselves and I had to change them back.
Grr!
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Round about now actually - good night all! zzzz
ummmm later actually
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Daylight saving time was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist ...
Good job it wasn't an antipodean who designed the pocket watch and other clocks - the hands would then have gone the other way around....

What, so you're blaming US for this mess now???!!!!

Oh, btw, what took you guys so long to change? We switched (the opposite way...) several weeks ago.
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.....calm down - calm down ....

after all it only happens (usually) twice each year for most of us .....
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