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On 04/27/13 09:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here |
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>>> either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow |
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>>> and in the dark to geet their before 9 o'clock. Not fun. DST would |
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>>> have helped. |
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>> No it wouldn't - DST makes it darker in the morning. When I was about 11, |
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>> the government experimented with using BST all year round. One of the |
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>> reasons given for not doing it was that kids would have to go to school |
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>> in the dark. |
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> ... and the children's accident rate in Scotland shot up. |
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> And what is this idea of saving daylight? Only an American could conceive of |
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> such a nonsense (I hope). |
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And the curtains will fade quicker with all that extra saved sunlight. |
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And has anyone thought of the dairy cows? Farmers get up at 4am to milk |
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them, but the cows will get confused because they don't have watches so |
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when the farmer turns up at 4am, DST, the cows won't be there........ |
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and on it goes, drivel from the great unwashed masses who can't wrap |
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their head around the concept of shifting the clock 1 hour. |
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Get over it and enjoy the extra hour in the evening. But then again I'm |
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in Australia where we have things to enjoy as distinct from those who |
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appear to be in the UK and complaining :) And lets be realistic about |
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childrens accident rates due to daylight savings, hasn't anyone heard of |
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Darwinian theory.... |
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Regards, |
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Andrew |
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