Daylight saving is a great idea for late night kiting/windsurfing. Come home after a hard day at work/school, grab your gear and head down for an afternoon sesh. I have just started kitesurfing and i personally think that it is a great idea.

Just wondering what all you kitesurfers/windsurfers think about it and how u will vote in this up coming referendum.

Had been discussed recently
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=46432

Even on Seabreeze you have people saying daylight savings sucks in WA. Something like they finish work at 2pm, get down to the beach and instead of it being windy they have to wait a while before the seabreeze kicks in. They get home after their sailing and the wife complains they have been at the beach too long.

I lived on the Gold Coast for a while and not having daylight savings made summer difficult to live in. Dawn would break around 4.30am at the height of summer and it would be sunny and hot by 5.30am. Difficult to sleep in when you have parrots and other birds squarking in the trees nearby.

People in Queensland complain about it being hotter with daylight savings. Does it really make much difference in the afternoon at Mt Isa or Roma in the middle of summer? Its bloody hot and an hour doesn't make much difference.

Sure daylight savings is causing global warming, fading curtains, stopping cows from laying eggs etc etc etc, but I love it.

My curtains fade more......

Hands up how many people want to kite at 6:00am as apposed to after work early evening? I love kiting after work, it makes me switch off from the hussle and bussle of the day gone and finishes my day off with a smile. With DLS I don`t have to rush after work to catch the remainder of the daylight.
Not sure what Broome`s less daylight hours compared to night hours has got to do with DLS. Surely with or without the DLS these hours would still be the same?
And yes, it`s mainly corporate business interest that is pushing for day light savings. I don`t see what`s so wrong with that. Business has become so much more globalised now and thanks to that most of us can afford to live the life we are enjoying?
Besides, who cares about socialising when you can kite?
Too tired after a kite session to socialise.

Im praying for WA Daylight Savings to continue!!

Please baby boomers "see the light"

I think the extension of DLS to end of March (through the trial) may be its undoing unfortunately.

sandgroper said...
DLS only works for the city-slickers too lazy to get up with the sun.

I was up at 6am this morning to exercise at the beach and I plan to kite tonight after work which finishes around 6pm. But apparently I'm a lazy city slicker cos I like DLS. Or maybe, I make the most out of the available daylight. I just don't want to get up at 4.30am in summer with the sun. I don't know anyone who would.

Afternoon winds are still accessible without DLS - you can easily put in another 3 or 4 hours before sundown - circa 8pm. How much more do you need?

Some ppl don't finish work till after 6.30pm. I would very much like your job if you finish at 3pm everyday.

Broome has LESS daylight hours than night hours in the peak of the southern summer - go do your research - its a fact.

This is a typical argument presented by the anti-DLS mob. It has absolutely no relevance to DLS - the hours are the same whether or not DLS is in place.

Daylight Saving is driven by corporate interests who want timezone parity with Sydney and Melbourne. You (voting public) are just a pawn in a political ploy that is driven by greed. It has nothing to do with lifestyle, ok?

I work in Perth for a company in Sydney and I hate the three-hour time difference when it happens. Guess I must be greedy then.... Get to work at 9am, its lunch time in Sydney. Finish my lunch and ppl in Sydney are about to go home. Oooh, its all a big conspiracy theory to make money for "the man". Bollocks.

I am still waiting to hear one reasonable argument why we shouldn't have daylight saving. For all those who vote against DLS, enjoy your winter cos its dark in the early morning and the early evening. Just how you like it.

Yeah your right groper, no need for DLS, just use the full moon!

If we don't get DLS because of the small minded, ignorant, backward, no life, red necks that seem to control this city, then it will be a sad day for all of us, but next year Im changing my clocks regardless.
Im lucky enough to have a job that will allow me to come in an hour earlier and finnish an hour earlier if I want.
No ones takin that extra hour on the water from me.

groper ia secretly running the whole WA 'anti DLS' movement .he has been doing a tour of eastern states CWA meetings confirming the old girls suspicions about faded curtains and sour milk who are coordinating a WA grass roots movement against DLS, spreading the myth that its also a greedy fascist eastern states big business con.
This is all becasue the groper wants to return to the good ol days when he largely had the beaches to himself in the arvo (while the other greedy fascists were at work conspiring with their eastern states masters in 'Real time" )plus plenny of time for a 4 30 am session using the sun rather than the moon as the light source

Pharro,
Seems you don't kite where I like to go .
When I say crowded I mean CROWDED .
There's always enough kiters around at non crowded times for the little chores you mentioned .
It's just so good kiting at one of the worlds best spots with only a few others to watch out for.
Hey I have been one of the staunchest supporters of daylight saving but having tried it now I really don't care much either way.
I just remember I enjoyed my afternoon kiting better before .
They made a huge mistake by letting it run past the end of summer .
My prediction is daylight saving will be absolutely slaughtered at the referendum anyway .
And I'm not sayimg that's a good thing .

The government is a joke, the people with fading curtains are a joke. I'm still to a valid reason as to not have it. WA has to move with the Eastern states if it ever wants to become a modern city. For people to business with the rest of the country is impossible. We might as well cut down the line and drift off into the iIndian ocean and form our own country.They have to make a fricken descision once and for all and say yes. But it's typical of the gov. over here they couldn't make a firm descision if there life depended on it.

Keep It I say and suck it up all you whingers.

I'm voting NO.. It doesn't suit me.. That's why we get a referendum so we each can have our say.. Calling each other names won't help.

Ya bunch of retards

It is not a question of "yes" or "no". There should be representative daylight savings. For example, if 30% of the population is in favour (of having light in the evening as opposed to early morning), then daylightsavings should last for 30% of the year.

I`m sorry I must be missing something here but if you wind your clock back an hour you will have an extra hour in the evening, not 40 minutes. Typical DLS haters, they try and make up these weired technical reasons why it`s gonna upset the balance of nature. It`s an hour`s shift, how is that gonna cause aberration? Are people that fragile in Broome that an hours difference is gonna cause them to loose their minds? One chap on 6PR radio said that he likes to have his dinner when it`s dark and now it`s throwing his body clock out of sync. What, does he actally eat in the dark? Solution: A) Eat your dinner an hour later. B) Close the curtains. (Oh sorry they`ll fade) C) Eat with your eyes closed, or wear sunnies Or D) HTFU![}:)]
I`m sure I`ve asked this before. But how many people like to get out and about early in the mornings compared to early evenings? There`s a big difference. I see alot more people out and about in the early evenings. Most of the people you see going for walks at the crack of dawn are the oldies who most are pensioners, so an hour here or there doesn`t matter if you`re not going to work. They`ll be up at the crack no matter what time it is. Hands up how many people can be arsssssseded to get up before work and go rig up for a kite session? I`m usually too tired from the early evening kite session.
The reason why politicians keep trying to bring this back is because they`re hoping that people will finally see the light, excuse the pun. That it`s good for buisness(more curtains get sold) and it gets more people out and about enjoying the outdoor Ozy lifestyle.
The problem is that when it comes to voting, the people that are against it are die harders and hate change, so they WILL vote. The one`s that are not sure either way wont vote or will vote against because Mr Jones next door told him it`s bad so it must be true. And the ones who like it are mostly the younger crowd who think voting is some kind of desease.
It looks like It`s moon kiting for me next year. Or is their some strange statistic why I shouldn`t do that aswell?

No daylight saving!! My kites are fading because I use them too much. Bring back the dark.