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
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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
>
>
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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
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AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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