General Chat

I like daylight saving.

We live in NSW, but the nearest "big" shops and the nearest airport are in Qld, ... which is an hour behind us in summer.

October 26th for us in the UK.

Canada has 5 time zones ............... with a totla of 4½ hours difference between BC and Newfoundland.



Wasn't there an experiment some years ago of having Double Summer Time?


just googled, and yes, the UK did have Double Summer Time during WW2 from 1940 to 1945, and then later a version where you had Summer Time all year round .................


"During the second world war, double British summer time was invented as an energy-saving device, effectively putting the country on the same footing as mainland Europe - GMT+1 in the winter, and GMT+2 in the summer. In 1947, Britain reverted to normal.

Then, in 1968, a three-year experiment was conducted with British Standard Time, keeping the clocks fixed throughout the year on GMT+1. However, the dark winter mornings were unpopular, particularly in Scotland. In 1971, MPs voted to return to the system that endures today."

Think it might only be 3 weeks away AnnCardiff :-( :-(

I remember the experiment in 1968-1971 when the clocks never changed.
Reflective strips on everything for us kids going to school in the dark !

I wonder which country has the greatest number of time zones :-S I know Russia has 9

oh, yes ................ I remember "train time" on the Indian Pacific :-)



I wasn't all that surprised at how little the Nullarbor had changed from when we drove our little white VW beetle across, both ways, back in 1975 :-)

Sylvia,

When we went on the Indian- Pacific a couple of years ago, we had to use 'train' time.

Not that really mattered one way or the other, we weren't going anywhere, in a manner of speaking :-)

I would have missed being near the ocean, as well as seeing mountains, if we had moved to Regina.


OH's family comes from the area around Kendal ......... I'm from close to the Pennines in Lancashire.


so we both like hilly views


we take the trains all the way across Canada from coast to coast on an average of once a year .................. our daughter lives on the other coast, and we take the train there and back when we go for every other Christmas. It takes 3 trains, 6 nights and 7 days to get there :-)


The Prairies are flat, white and cold at that time of year, but the train is lovely and warm :-)

Sylvia, I hope that the Chair of the Search Committee struggled with the job!

Have looked up Saskatchewan - looks interesting.

But I see that one of the Tourist attractions is hunting! That aspect does not appeal to me at all.

As a toddler I lived in Keswick, in the English Lake District.

So my first memories are of hills and lakes. I know that there are benifits to living somewhere rather flat - (the light and the distant views) but think that I would miss the hills.

Found that it borders with Alberta - recently found that some of my distant rellies (1st cousins three times removed) moved to there (and to Ontario) from Scotland over 150 years ago.
So little by little I'm finding out more about Canada - give me another 160 years or so and I should be quite knowledgable!

Tessa .........


it's bloomin' cold in winter, and bloomin' hot in summer


and it's flat flat flat


People who live there do love it, and love the wide open vistas


I just am very happy that OH did not get the job in Regina that he applied for back around 1977. I much prefer BC :-D

The one where the Chair of the Search Committee told the rest of the committee that OH had turned down the offered position because I (ME) wouldn't go there ............ and then accepted the position himself :-0


I found out this story many years later when asked why I had not wanted to go there.

Problem was .................. OH was never offered the position, but was phoned by the Chair and told the Committee had decided not to appoint anyone :-S


We probably would have gone there if he had been offered the position ..... or at the very least discussed it very seriously! There were a lot of good points.

The idea of changing the clock and calling it "Daylight saving" gets my goat!

If you REALLY saved any daylight then surely when the clocks change the other way it should be called "Daylight wasting" or something like that.

The number of hours that a certain places gets daylight remains the same - no matter what the clock says.

Allan WA has my vote! Perhaps one day the rest of Australia will join you in the land of common sense.

Sylvia, the same goes for Saskatchewan, perhaps I should move there, (or is it cold most of the ttime).

Off to check Saskatchewan on line.

We here in WA plod on regardless.

No time changes for us: not even clock ones

Not that it matters, we are usually twenty years behind the rest of Australia anyway :-(

Right on the border of NSW & Qld are two towns, Coolangatta in Qld & Tweed Heads in NSW. You only know you're in another town when you see a sign..... Welcome to Qld, or Welcome to NSW!

On New Year's Eve, people gather on one side of a bridge, wish each other Happy New Year, then go over to the other side of the bridge and do it all again an hour later.

It's fun when we ride the trains across Canada ................. usually the Dining Car Service Manage will announce at dinner that we have to change our watches by 1 hour before morning


but sometimes they decide to just go on "train time" :-)


the first time we had New Year on the train ............... we actually had TWO New Year's ........

............ the train crossed a time change just after the first midnight, so we celebrated a second time :-)

our DST changes on November 2nd ............ in concert with the US, thanks to Dubya being conned some years ago that having longer DST (approximately 8 months) would save money and energy ............... biggest fallacy out!


More energy is being used in the early mornings and evenings for light and heating during March and October than previously


But like LS ...................... not all Canada changes time, and we have 5 different time zones across the country anyway :-)


Alberta has DST but is on Mountain Standard Time anyway, which is 1 hour ahead of BC, and that means that some towns in BC near the Alberta border have opted to go MST, as they feel closer to AB, than to us in the western part of the province.


There are places there where you change time zones as you drive into a town, and then go back as you leave town on the other side :-D


Saskatchewan does not have DST, and stays on the same time all year .................




Next year, DST will start on Sunday March 8, and end on November 1

That's when it gets late, earlier!

four weeks Saturday for us :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

Daylight saving :-D

Most Australian States have daylight saving. It begins this weekend.

We live near the border of NSW & Qld. Qld doesn't have daylight saving, so when we drive 30 minutes north, we're in a different time zone.

Crazy.