Spring forward, Fall back!
go to bed earlier!!
You're a month late :P
John P
Or a week early for the clock change and 6mths early for the spring forward.
:-X :-X
How come? Live on the moon or something? :hmmm: ;)
Not every country buggers about with their clocks like we do :no:
Quite correct. Classic example here being Queensland. But they are banana benders after all :D
Quote from: Bealman on March 31, 2024, 10:57:25 AMHow come? Live on the moon or something? :hmmm: ;)
The Philippines are so close to the equator that daylight length doesn't vary much (only 1h43m difference between the shortest and longest days according to a Google search), so Daylight Saving wouldn't make much difference.
Quote from: Bealman on March 31, 2024, 11:04:20 AMQuite correct. Classic example here being Queensland. But they are banana benders after all :D
In the USA, Arizona can be fun, since the state itself doesn't use DST but the Navajo Nation does and the Hopi (whose land is totally enclosed within the Navajo Nation) don't.
A friend told me of a trip he did between the Grand Canyon and Phoenix, which passed through Arizona, the Navajo Nation, the Hopi lands, the Navajo Nation again, Arizona, the Navajo Nation yet again and finally back into Arizona - all on the same road. He'd have had to change his watch six times in a bit over 200 miles if he'd wanted to stick to the right time.
As it was, he had to change it at least twice because he was hoping to reach somewhere en route before it closed and needed to know if he'd manage it.
Quote from: Bealman on March 31, 2024, 11:04:20 AMQuite correct. Classic example here being Queensland. But they are banana benders after all :D
George, we're going to need some context on that statement please.
Quote from: emjaybee on March 31, 2024, 12:03:59 PMQuote from: Bealman on March 31, 2024, 11:04:20 AMQuite correct. Classic example here being Queensland. But they are banana benders after all :D
George, we're going to need some context on that statement please.
I suspect some kind of nutjob legislation that all bananas have to be straight and not curved :hmmm:
Quote from: Newportnobby on March 31, 2024, 12:21:46 PMQuote from: emjaybee on March 31, 2024, 12:03:59 PMQuote from: Bealman on March 31, 2024, 11:04:20 AMQuite correct. Classic example here being Queensland. But they are banana benders after all :D
George, we're going to need some context on that statement please.
I suspect some kind of nutjob legislation that all bananas have to be straight and not curved :hmmm:
Well, it
is Au-strange-lia!
A reminder to those like me who have time/date on their dash cams to reset the time ;)
If one more media outlet tells me we've "gained an hour of sunlight every day"... :veryangry: you don't... you just move it from one end to the other!!! ::)
With today's 24 hour society, why not have everyone everywhere set the clocks to exactly the same time (proper GMT of course) and then everyone gets up/goes to bed whenever suits them to best fit local conditions...
Just imagine the chaos before railways came along and time got standardised within the UK
Quote from: Newportnobby on March 31, 2024, 12:35:54 PMA reminder to those like me who have time/date on their dash cams to reset the time ;)
At the first clock change after I got my current car, I spent ages trying to work out how to change the time - only to find out that it does it automagically using the DPS satellites.
On my previous car, I also spent ages trying to change the time on the clock in the instrument panel, only to find that to do that I had to change the clock in the media centre - which wasn't set to display a clock so I didn't even know there was one there.
They never make things easy for us blokes who don't read the manuals, do they? ::)
Oh Gawd. Just thought of another clock I need to alter - my motorbike :doh:
Quote from: Newportnobby on March 31, 2024, 01:02:58 PMThey never make things easy for us blokes who don't read the manuals, do they? ::)
Yeah, but for my previous car I
was looking in the manual - just not the one for the media centre, since the clock I was trying to change was in the main instrument panel.
Be thankful we only change the clocks twice a year!
When at sea, especially on east-west or west-east crossings, depending upon the departure port's and arrival port's local time, we would have to change clock every night! Easy for the dayworkers, but the watchkeepers had to make sure they didn't call their reliefs early or late; as we used to split the total time between the three (or two) watches, so we lost, or gained, sleep equally.
On a relatively fast Atlantic crossing from/to Europe to the east USA, we had to do an hour every night.
Retarding an hour meant 40' more sleep, but made the watch seemingly MUCH longer (20'), and forwarding meant a quicker watch, but 40' less sleep......weather permitting!
Martyn
Quote from: Newportnobby on March 31, 2024, 12:35:54 PMA reminder to those like me who have time/date on their dash cams to reset the time ;)
I never bother with mine. The clock in our car is so small you can hardly see it anyway!