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Im amazed at how many people up here don't understand that day light savings is simply adjusting a clock...they seriously think it makes the sun last longer every day..
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I'm in horticulture....and I have crops that need to be picked.
Usually you need daylight to do that. Daylight doesn't begin till the sun comes up.
As summer goes and autumn begins the sun naturally comes up later. Add an hour to that and basically it's 7:30 before your picking gets underway to a meaningful level.
Meaning we lose 1 hour per day of
Picking
1h for seven days x 4 weeks x 2 months
That's why it's s**t old mate
Like I said this time of year it's no dramas for us because the sun is up well before 6 and sets late, but it's goes for at least 2 months 2 long
I'm in horticulture....and I have crops that need to be picked.
Usually you need daylight to do that. Daylight doesn't begin till the sun comes up.
As summer goes and autumn begins the sun naturally comes up later. Add an hour to that and basically it's 7:30 before your picking gets underway to a meaningful level.
Meaning we lose 1 hour per day of
Picking
1h for seven days x 4 weeks x 2 months
That's why it's s**t old mate
Surely you can just adjust your start times?
Have you ever picked fruit in the afternoon under blistering hot sun?
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Yeah, but let's say you start picking at sunrise and pick for 4 hours.
It doesn't matter if that's 6.30 - 10.30 or 7.30 - 11.30.
The sun doesn't know what it says on your clocks. It's the same temperature...
It doesn't matter if that's 6.30 - 10.30 or 7.30 - 11.30.
The sun doesn't know what it says on your clocks. It's the same temperature...
Start 1 hour earlier or is that just way to hard??? When I work up there people are walking around at 4am WTFI'm in horticulture....and I have crops that need to be picked.
Usually you need daylight to do that. Daylight doesn't begin till the sun comes up.
As summer goes and autumn begins the sun naturally comes up later. Add an hour to that and basically it's 7:30 before your picking gets underway to a meaningful level.
Meaning we lose 1 hour per day of
Picking
1h for seven days x 4 weeks x 2 months
That's why it's s**t old mate
Us Mexicans just don't get it obviously, I used to work up there heaps and I just don't think they understand it's the same amount of daylight hours
Correct, there's the same amount of daylight in a day, however the clock is adjusted.Us Mexicans just don't get it obviously, I used to work up there heaps and I just don't think they understand it's the same amount of daylight hours
Shithouse though when dealing with the eastern states from WA and the extra hour, not good for business communications.
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Try living in WA .. the sun comes up at FOUR AM!!! The kids get up ....
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Perhaps we should call it daylight robbery not daylight savings?
Give the sun a clock for Christmas = problem solved
Umm, move the clock an hour forward!!!
I worked in a place called Mount Magnet on a minesite, on a drill rig. I have done work a heap worse than picking fruit. It was 12 hour a day at least.
Start work at 6am finish at 6.30pm.
Trust me, ive done it. So what is your point?
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Cows make their own way to the dairy in the morning. During daylight savings that happens an hour later because unfortunately they don't have watches.
Because the milk truck still turns up at the same time, now they turn up halfway through milking rather than afterwards. Either that or you have to go wake the cows and chase them to the dairy, which adds work and can hurt your milk production.
Always amusing when people make fun of farmers because they believe the farmer can't understand a simple concept, when it is in fact that person who can't understand a simple concept.
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Even daylight savings becomes a dick swinging event around here.
Sundial paraphernalia ?
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Bolts got what he wanted - left footers who can use the footy & line breakers. SOS got who we wanted.
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No love for Atley at #27?
ferrisb
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SOS was keen on Ridley but Bombers got pick before us Bolton was on our radar but home factor put him off
Then dairy farmers are probably the only people genuinely affected by DLS. For the rest of us, it's only positive. I live in Qld and the sun is fully up by 4.30am. What's the point? No one is up at 4.30, except dairy farmers. It's just wasted sunlight. Give it to us in the evenings when we actually use it for something. The whole population is held to ransom by a few dozen farmers who are mildly inconvenienced by it. FMD.
