CAN EVERYBODY REMEMBER TO VOTE FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ON MAY 16TH.
IT WILL BE A REALLY CLOSE VOTE.
LAST NIGHT WAS DARK AT 814PM.
IF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS VOTED AGAINST WILL BE DARK DURING SUMMER JUST AFTER 7PM!!!!!
IMAGINE GETTING ON WATER AFTER WORK AT 6PM AND HAVING JUST OVER 1 HOUR OF SAILING!!!!!

IF YOU LOVE THE WIND VOTE YES

CHEERS

Most of the western world is bought up on daylight saving but I'm not holding my breath for WA to join the 21st century.

Change doesn't happen here unfortunately. I'll be voting a big YES though, here's hoping.

If daylight savings has not much effect on the northen part of W.A. then who cares. It affects my kiting time and that is all that matters. Vote yes, OR ELSE! [}:)]

sandgroper said...

the gaz said...

Most of the western world is bought up on daylight saving but I'm not holding my breath for WA to join the 21st century.

Change doesn't happen here unfortunately. I'll be voting a big YES though, here's hoping.

As noted previously on this subject, there is no significant "daylight" to "save" for people north of the Tropic of Capricorn.

I've yet to see any DS advocates comment on how the so called "benefits" of DS are completely dependent on where you live. Perth people just see DS from the Perth-centric point of view with no regard for the effect on people in Kalgoorlie, Broome, and, most especially Kununnara. The latter location will have no DS effect at all even in the peak of summer, because on average, they recieve less than 1 hour of extra sunlight during the summer. Albany has some 90 minutes more daylight in December than Kununurra even though both have sunrise at the same time.

One solution might be to localise DS to south of a line between Geraldton and Esperance. Then the Perthlings would have their precious DS without affecting parts of the state where it made no sense, and everyone would live happily ever after But that would spoil the game plan of DS pushers wanting to treat everyone in the state of WA as if we all lived in Perth.

In the words of that silly politician woman from up North of the Tropic of Capricorn....."PLEASE EXPLAIN". Surely if you live in a region that does not have a large seasonal variation in daylight hours and has a very short twilight daylight saving would be more valuable. Instead of being dark at say 7.30 with daylight saving it will not get dark until 8.30 allowing people the opportunity to spend an extra hour enjoying themselves outdoors.
In my business we add an extra 2 hours of daylight saving to the 1 granted by starting at 6 am rather than 8 am in winter. Alows staff to knock off at 2.30 go home and get changed, pick the kids up from school and spend a few hours down at the beach or whatever.
I do appreciate that daylight saving can work against people who like to go for a quick surf or bike ride before work, I am included in this category, however the benefits at large far outweigh the disadvantages.

surf is sh!it in summer anyway so you dont miss anything.... you go for a surf in the morning during winter, where DS hasnt affected anything at all and where there is a swell that actually stands higher than your ankle.

Yes Poor Relative you echo my sentiments exactly. I'll admit DLS does suck a bit up north - I work FIFO in the Pilbara and its harder to get up for your shift and the heat hangs around longer at the end of the day. However - does that mean we should arrange our lives to suit the minority in the Pilbara?

Sure the DLS thing is Perth-centric (or south-of-Gero-centric) - but if this is where the majority of the population live, then surely that is democracy in action.

I will be voting a big yes, but I'm not holding my breath. What with DLS and trading hours, it seems WA is full of troglodytes living in the 18th century.

Yeah, probably wasn;t helpful I'll admit - but when you live here you get frustrated at alot of the backwardness.

keep in mind the seabreeze is an hour later with dls so 2 hours might mean there's that one unusable hour i vote 1 hour in summer and a big fat cup of htfu for the state.

Maybe we could all learn a lesson from the Inuit/Eskimo's. While non-stop daylight for three months really does fade their curtains, they all agree nonetheless that Summer is the absolute time of choice in the arctic.

Well I'll be voting NO... And what is it to you??? Did someone mention democracy?? What about free country did anyone mention that?? Travel is not free but you are certainly free to leave if you don't like it..

I just don't get it People constantly carry on about how much they hate it here(in WA) because it is better somewhere else, or how it's dullsville or the clock is wrong or they can't shop while the 2nd class people have to work (at the shops) so they have the privlage to shop at will...

Get on the freeway and when you see a sign pointing to the airport..... Follow it.. or if thats too hard get up really early in the morning and follow the sun till about 9am then stop... till the next morning... and keep doing that every day till you get to your heaven.. Or altenatively do it after about 3pm..and don't forget your floaties..

Fair dinkum (that's an Australian term) if we get DLS I'll wear it, and if we don't that will suit me fine but I'm not gonna go around calling people names and making judgements about them

its because WA has sweet frikin wind. tht is it. you guys are just scared off change.. its ok buddy it wont hurt you

I've noticed that everyone I know in WA who has lived in another state or country with Daylight Saving thinks it is great and is going to vote Yes. The people who have never left WA for an extended period don't like it. This is pretty much age-independent also. My interstate friends are really surprised when I tell them people here are going to vote against it.

What does this say about WA? I don't know. Maybe the people who haven't gone out and explored something different will never be convinced that some change is a good thing.

I love WA for the weather and the lifestyle. I just wish the half of the population that are resistant to change would leave Meanwhile, I have to absorb all the quips about WA being 3 hours and 2 decades behind the rest of Australia....

cgaf after getting off the 8.30am to 5pm treadmill

Hi all yus down south. Im Boab and Im from Kununurra
Bin readin this ere forum for ages bu this's interestin so I rekon ill join in.
Im thinkin Mr Sandgropa is definitley a big bad troll.
Nobody in any way of sane mind could put up the stuff what he does and mean any of it - not sereously at any road.
Take his kununnura DLS stuff.
We dont want DLS up ere ? yer rite
Wouldnt make any difference up here ? wtfru on gropa
Gawd blimey goannas - DLS up my way is a bludy must.
When yu live wear the sun sets when the shops shut (thatd be 5:30 at the beginning and end of summa) and at the latest 6:00 midsumma we desperetly gotta get ourselfs some of this DLS. The more the merrier for all us folks fer sure.

Yer see me an me mates are all mad keen SUP'ers so unless your game enough to risk a bit of night SUPing (but that'd be way dangerus I rekon) all yer can do after work roun ere is go home turn on a light an drink. This gives u a huge hangover so you cant do nuthin when the sun comes up at 5:00 cept keep sleepin it orf. So without no DLS we never get a chance to get out on the old Lily Creek Laggoon ceptin fer weekends and wen our missuses has kids and otha sorta holidays.

So thats wot we all rekon and so i writ this litle poem for yers all to think on this saterday when yus all go votin
Dont listen to that gropa dude.
Nuthin he says is tried or trued.
His just bein silly
Hes pullin yer willy
Just vote yeah DLS cos it makes sense & the only rymin word I can think of for ere is kangarood