Lawrence,
I'd also have liked to hear your approach to the international date line, which
is very disconcerting to encounter mid-Pacific...
Which novelist sent a terrorist bomb to Greenwich to blow up GMT?
thanks to Sheila et al for yr responses.
Max
Quoting Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>:
> It should all be GMT with lots of people working through the night
>
> As it is, it's very confusing. You phone Vancouver from London, say, in
> the late afternoon and they think it's morning
>
> That's no way to run a planet
>
> And everyone should be called John Smith
>
>
> L
>
> On Thu, October 14, 2010 13:42, andrew burke wrote:
> > Max, so busy with my own distractions, I forgot to say how I liked this.
> > As
> > you know, in the West we knocked Daylight saving on the head after a trial
> > run: crazy! I like it. & in business over here it is a real disadvantage
> > being three hours behind the rest of the nation! In CHina, it is all
> > Beijing time, north, south, east and west. Maybe we
> > should do that here - make Australia all Sydney time <g> As a Melbournian,
> > you will of course disagree, but the way it is now is annoying ...
> >
> > Thanks again for the poem
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > On 13 October 2010 08:52, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Daylight Saving
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> It means getting up earlier,
> >> enjoying longer evenings.
> >>
> >> After all, the sun for weeks has been
> >> gradually rising earlier.
> >>
> >> But it's a jolt,
> >> one hour in one hit.
> >>
> >> That first Sunday can be a day
> >> of shock (depending on the weather -
> >>
> >> this year was OK), a morning for more coffee.
> >>
> >> And the afternoon so drawn out!
> >> Maybe an extra meal will be needed.
> >>
> >>
> >> And all the possibilities
> >> outdoors, longer games, day-trips...
> >>
> >> anyone for Bendigo or one of the remoter bays?
> >>
> >> You northerners, up there
> >> in the top-heavy hemisphere,
> >>
> >> as the dark closes in how is it for you?
> >>
> >> Chill winds blow no good
> >> through your yellow-leaved trees.
> >>
> >> Here it's blossom time
> >> everywhere except my garden -
> >>
> >> its lank weeds have sprung again. Season for clenched fists
> >>
> >>
> >> against thistles and their kin. Straightening my creaking back,
> >>
> >>
> >> I scan the slow evening sky
> >> above the tree-line - new moon!
> >>
> >> Oh, the same one shines on you,
> >> but here it's in a clear dark blue,
> >>
> >> on its side, smirking like a smiley emoticon,
> >>
> >> Venus nearby, and over there,
> >> that could well be Mars,
> >>
> >> awaiting co-option in the flag of some new nation.
> >>
> >> Craning my neck I may see the Southern
> >> Cross, already borrowed for two flags,
> >>
> >>
> >> my native New Zealand's (four stars), my long-time five-star home,
> >> Australia's.
> >>
> >>
> >> Took them both an age
> >> to go in for daylight saving,
> >>
> >> worries about the dairy cows and the curtains fading,
> >>
> >> especially in Queensland, holding out longest,
> >>
> >> a confusing problem in Tweed Heads straddling the New South Wales
> >> border...
> >>
> >> bars opening an hour earlier on one side, closing an hour later on
> >> t'other.
> >>
> >> A problem for some, a gift to others.
> >> That was then. Now is daylight saving.
> >>
> >>
> >> Max Richards
> >> in Melbourne
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
> > http://www.picaropress.com/
> > http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
> > http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/creativecommons/poems-for-ivor-cutler-3
> http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/cc-the-remixes/the-man-who-finds-himself-
amusing
>
>
> "This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of us
> are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't propose to
> die with polite insincerities in my mouth. "
> C S Lewis - That Hideous Strength
> ---
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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