mariebut

PalenQ are you serious about the southern hemisphere bit? you know the other half of the WORLD below the equator where the seasons are opposite to the northern hemisphere!! Thats also very civilised!!! We have been on Daylight saving time since October and finish in April and loving it.

adeben

Mariebut: It's called 'irony'.

PalenQ

Why would Oz spring forward at the beginning of autumn? Indeed, why would anyone expect ANY system of daylight saving in tropical Australia? Or haven't Americans learned about southern hemisphere seasons?

cher flaneur:

Since according to an Ozzie above they are indeed on daylight savings time NOW and will be till April my statement about the civilized world all being on daylight savings time stands correct (though i'm having second thoughts about including Canada in that!)

Where is the southern hemisphere anyway? Under the northern hemisphere? What do folks on the equator do - on daylight savings time all year?

You're construing that i said Oz would go on daylight savings time at the beginning of autumn is wrong - yes why would they - so i guess i were right

Cheers ole chap

I did think the Southern Hemisphere were all water however.

bilboburgler

Amazing concept of what the civilised world is. One where the clocks go forward last saturday! All that literature and education and it comes down to this.

Still back to the lounge.

On another thought what year is it in Europe might be a good question? In my house about 1990.

PalenQ

the civiliZed world is where folks spell civiliZed properly.

travel_buzzing

NY is 5 hours behind UK...

PalenQ

4 right now right

ny 4 hrs behind London for a month until UK catches up timewise

bilboburgler

timewise ;-)

now do we saw anti-clockwise (no idea why the hyphen) or widdershins?

PalenQ

Ah what is time anyway?

Clifton

Yes, Oz does daylight savings although I am not sure they have changed the months they did it in recently. Their spring forward and fall back are, of course, the reverse of the US, just like the seasons (the reason for DST to begin with).

This means that sometimes my mother-in-law is 15 hours difference from our time, other times it's 17 hours. So while she continues to be confused about the difference, she can now call and wake us at 3am, rather than the customary 1am.

PatrickLondon

PalenQ

"Folks on the Equator" don't need Daylight Saving - all days are more or less the same length all year round.

PalenQ

But still why could not they want an extra hour of sunlight at night and not at 7am? Energy savings could be a reason as it is here.

I think the fact that they have equal days, nights all year could be irrelevant to energy savings, right?

hetismij

In Tanzania they have two time systems - the normal clock as we know it, so sunrise is at say 7 am and also local time where time is measured as hours after sunrise/sunset. SInce they have days of almost equal length all year round the local system makes sense.
Important to know which system is being used when making appointments though.

I'm still struggling with the time difference within Arizona as I shall have to remember that when there in May!

Clifton

Ethiopia has a time system kind of like that too, since they have roughly equal length days all year long. 12am is at sunrise and 12pm is at sunset. And they have a 13 month calendar.

Makes the world a more interesting place, I think, not to have so much uniformity.