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#2887519 17-Mar-2022 10:26

Rikkitic:

I don't really care what time it is. I just wish it wouldn't keep changing. The difference is only one hour. If that is too much for some people, why not compromise on a half-hour? It works for Australia.

Aucklanders find it hard enough to drive in daylight, the thought of dark mornings all year around is terrifying if you have to commute.

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#2887520 17-Mar-2022 10:27

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Rikkitic:

I don't really care what time it is. I just wish it wouldn't keep changing. The difference is only one hour. If that is too much for some people, why not compromise on a half-hour? It works for Australia.

Aucklanders find it hard enough to drive in daylight, the thought of dark mornings all year around is terrifying if you have to commute.

or Ride a bike!

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#2887538 17-Mar-2022 11:11

Can't wait for the windows patching required for DST changes, and the constant fear every time the old DST came around checking to make sure servers didn't change times..

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#2887551 17-Mar-2022 11:51

At least Apple's unlikely to make it a paid upgrade for the new timezone database like they did in 2007! (And even then, it was a couple of weeks late...)

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#2887560 17-Mar-2022 12:11

As someone that gets up early to run I love DST and as my evenings are sucked up by cooking dinner/getting kids ready and to bed the extra time in the evenings is of no use.

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#2887570 17-Mar-2022 13:03

Rikkitic:
I don't really care what time it is. I just wish it wouldn't keep changing.

You should try living at a beach, the high water time changes everyday. Trouble is King Canute has already shown you can't control it by decree.

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#2887607 17-Mar-2022 15:09

I'm not sure those of you up north appreciate what would happen to the southerners if we had DST all year round

Do you realise that in Dunedin sunrise would be 9:20 am in the middle of winter and on cloudy days (all of them that time of year) it would not get light till about 10am. Mix that in with the ice on the hill roads and mothers on the school run.... I don't think so Tim

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#2887879 17-Mar-2022 20:20

Bung:
Rikkitic:

I don't really care what time it is. I just wish it wouldn't keep changing.

You should try living at a beach, the high water time changes everyday. Trouble is King Canute has already shown you can't control it by decree.

Perhaps a new time and calendar system, based on tides and the moon instead of the sun, so that every day at X time it's high tide, regardless of whether the sun is up or not. :-)

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#2888027 18-Mar-2022 09:54

Arguing for the other side:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/300544155/sleep-experts-say-standard-time-not-daylight-saving-should-be-permanent

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#2888080 18-Mar-2022 11:12

mdooher:

I'm not sure those of you up north appreciate what would happen to the southerners if we had DST all year round

Do you realise that in Dunedin sunrise would be 9:20 am in the middle of winter and on cloudy days (all of them that time of year) it would not get light till about 10am. Mix that in with the ice on the hill roads and mothers on the school run.... I don't think so Tim

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antonknee:

I'd rather have daylight savings time all year round. If that means the roads are icy in Dunedin at 8am, who cares, people shouldn't live there anyway (tongue firmly in cheek in case that wasn't blindingly obvious).

It's quite hard given our geography and the time difference between say Auckland and Dunedin to really justify moving to summer time all year round, as much as I personally think DST and the flip-flop is stupid.

After I slept on it, I actually think standard time all year round - ie simply removing the switch and operating at GMT+12 all year - is probably the best outcome overall.

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#2888085 18-Mar-2022 11:17

If only it were feasible to extend days to 24 hours and 20 seconds while heading into summer, and shorten them to 23 hours, 59 minutes and 40 seconds while heading into winter. After half a year you'd have corrected the time by a little more than a full hour, and there wouldn't be a jarring adjustment for humans.

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#2888153 18-Mar-2022 12:07

mdooher:

I'm not sure those of you up north appreciate what would happen to the southerners if we had DST all year round

Do you realise that in Dunedin sunrise would be 9:20 am in the middle of winter and on cloudy days (all of them that time of year) it would not get light till about 10am. Mix that in with the ice on the hill roads and mothers on the school run.... I don't think so Tim

Meh. It's only the students and the old folks that live there...Students and old people don't rise until mid day anyway... /s

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#2888175 18-Mar-2022 12:20

Pussies. Back in my day we walked barefooted to school and were thankful for the odd still-warm cow patty to thaw out our toes along the way.

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#2888186 18-Mar-2022 12:45

quickymart:
Arguing for the other side:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/300544155/sleep-experts-say-standard-time-not-daylight-saving-should-be-permanent

And that means no daylight for late evenings during summer months for lounging around the pool (for those that have them) or on the deck, enjoying a cool beverage until late. The middle of summer would see daylight gone just after 8pm. It would be getting dark at about 7pm by now (it's getting dark when I finish watering the veggies just after 8pm).

There's a bit to weigh up, and you're never going to please everyone.

DST as it stands doesn't bother me, and we've never really had trouble with kids adapting through the years (they're adults now).

Whatever happens, most people will get used to it. Doesn't bother me either way.

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#2888206 18-Mar-2022 13:16

dfnt:

Can't wait for the windows patching required for DST changes, and the constant fear every time the old DST came around checking to make sure servers didn't change times..

Try dealing with a retrospective TZ change... Yes.. This has actually happens.

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