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Post by auntys_eyes »

w0mbat wrote:WOOOHOOO

Love it! I do not understand how anyone can be against it!
Well I can.... but I will keep that to myself :P

It's not like we actualy get an extra hour of daylight ot anything... just our concept of time changes....

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i think it sucks and its good if that makes sense means its kannker when i at work but means less sleep for body
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Post by meg »

auntys_eyes wrote:And don't get me started on my conspiracy story about the new Lib/Nat government not publicising it's commencement, so as to alienate the public and force a No vote at the referendum 8) .
Just been to see a friends band play at the local - he was running late because he forgot the time had changed :)

I'm not a fan though - wake up in the dark for half the year anyway.

Let's have daylight saving in winter though - that's when I'd appreciate some extra daylight time at the end of the working day!

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I'm all for it. Nothing better than having some daylight time for myself when the kids are in bed :)
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Daylight saving caused the water pipe to split to the drinking water chiller unit at work and has flooded out my office.

That's what I'm blaming it on anyway ;)
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If you were in an hour earlier you could have saved it by turning the water off! :wink:
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yorky wrote:If you were in an hour earlier you could have saved it by turning the water off! :wink:
Oh judging by the amount of water, this was an all-weekend leak ;)
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Post by canon »

Chicky wrote:I'm all for it. Nothing better than having some daylight time for myself when the kids are in bed :)
at least your kids go to bed on time. I dont have any but when i look after my nephew and niece its a nightmare to get them to bed when its still daylight outside lol
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Always RX wrote:Funniest thing Ive heard re: daylight savings was this morning...I pulled into the local Maccas as i always do for my morning coffee and was greeted by a girl on the drive thru speaker, and she says " Im sorry but we arent actually open ....we have to update our systems for daylight savings"....I was like... :shock: ... and went next door to BP where it seemed the coffee machine didnt care what time it was.
its the computers and registers, not the coffee machine :)

every night around 1 - 3am, the manager has to reset the system, which puts it offline for about 15 minutes... its aggrovating, but required. when daylight savings clicks over, we have to do more junk aswell... putting us out for longer
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Nafenn wrote:its the computers and registers, not the coffee machine :)
And the lifts ...

As well as having a flood this morning, the building's lifts stubbornly stayed on standard time, so wouldn't let anyone up to our floor until 9am instead of 8am ;)

Fun and games :P
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I recall in the first year, whilst we changed the building management system for the start of daylight saving, noone picked it up for the end of daylight saving and the doors opened an hour early...

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Post by robbage »

The extra hour of sunlight should be good for the solar charged batteries at repeaters
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Post by canon »

robbage wrote:The extra hour of sunlight should be good for the solar charged batteries at repeaters
and for my solar powered night vision goggles :smt044 :smt044 :smt044
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robbage wrote:The extra hour of sunlight should be good for the solar charged batteries at repeaters
#-o :lol:
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Post by spartacus »

robbage wrote:The extra hour of sunlight should be good for the solar charged batteries at repeaters
are you serious :?: :roll:
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