Re: Daylight saving in NSW

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:49:23 +0200, Els wrote:

> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>
>> Els wrote:
>>
>>> Would make it a bit difficult for long distance travellers I think. If
>>> you travel from the UK to the USA, and arrive in what previously was a
>>> timezone at UTC-7, you'll have to tell your mind that 1am is time to
>>> get up, and breakfast will only be served till 3am.
>>
>> Or you could just go to sleep when it got dark, and ask the hotel to
>> give you a wake-up call an hour before they stop serving breakfast and
>> stop worrying about numbers.
>
> Is an idea, yes - for the brave. Most people are ruled by their watches,
> they have preconditioned their brains to obey the numbers on the clock
> :-)

That is what I can not figure out. What is So important that you have a
clock do your thinking for you?

We in Philippines don't care what the clock says, we generally go and
come when we desire. If the party starts a 5:00PM and we show up at
8:00PM it's OK. Most of us don't even have a watch.... we can't afford
one :)

>
> As for going to sleep when it gets dark - that won't work most of the
> time. (depending on time of year and distance to equator)

Who sleeps?

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Re: Daylight saving in NSW

Baho Utot wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:49:23 +0200, Els wrote:
>
>> Toby A Inkster wrote:
>>
>>> Els wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would make it a bit difficult for long distance travellers I think. If
>>>> you travel from the UK to the USA, and arrive in what previously was a
>>>> timezone at UTC-7, you'll have to tell your mind that 1am is time to
>>>> get up, and breakfast will only be served till 3am.
>>>
>>> Or you could just go to sleep when it got dark, and ask the hotel to
>>> give you a wake-up call an hour before they stop serving breakfast and
>>> stop worrying about numbers.
>>
>> Is an idea, yes - for the brave. Most people are ruled by their watches,
>> they have preconditioned their brains to obey the numbers on the clock
>> :-)
>
> That is what I can not figure out. What is So important that you have a
> clock do your thinking for you?
>
> We in Philippines don't care what the clock says, we generally go and
> come when we desire. If the party starts a 5:00PM and we show up at
> 8:00PM it's OK. Most of us don't even have a watch.... we can't afford
> one :)

I bet that even in the Philippines, children have to be in school on
time. Other than obligatory things like school, work, meetings, trains
(okay, European trains) and flights, I agree - I don't look at the
clock most of the time either. (Which probably is why my dinner time
is anywhere between 6 and 8.30. Rough estimate of course.)

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Re: Daylight saving in NSW

In article ,
Baho Utot wrote:

> Who sleeps?

What's "sleep"?

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Re: Daylight saving in NSW

On 31 Mar 2008, Baho Utot wrote:

>> Is an idea, yes - for the brave. Most people are ruled by their watches,
>> they have preconditioned their brains to obey the numbers on the clock
>> :-)
>
> That is what I can not figure out. What is So important that you have a
> clock do your thinking for you?
>
> We in Philippines don't care what the clock says, we generally go and
> come when we desire. If the party starts a 5:00PM and we show up at
> 8:00PM it's OK.

But what if the party ends at 7:30 or all the food is gone?

> Most of us don't even have a watch.... we can't afford
> one :)

Industrialization changes a society's tempo. -I'm not saying for the
better.

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Re: Daylight saving in NSW

In article ,
Baho Utot wrote:

> We in Philippines don't care what the clock says, we generally go and
> come when we desire. If the party starts a 5:00PM and we show up at
> 8:00PM it's OK. Most of us don't even have a watch.... we can't afford
> one :)

Sounds like Montreal.

Gawd, I hate living in Ontario, full of complacent rednecks in Tilley
hats drinking double-doubles eh? goin to the United Church on Sundays
and Rotary lunch on Wednesdays at noon DST and volunteering to combat
restless leg syndrome at the food bank.
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W. Oates