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bennet_7Today I was 20 minutes late for work. Why? Western Australia has switched over to Daylight Savings. And I had no idea.
You see, when exams are over I like to decompress. I shut myself in my room and I sleep and I read and I catch up on Battlestar Galactica (almost done!). I don't watch the news, I don't read newspapers and the only time I listen to the radio is when I'm driving (and then I listen to Triple J, which is national and broadcasts from the Eastern States) or when my brother has an I'm-a-teenager-woe-is-me-now-I-shall-listen-to-mainstream-crap-LOUDLY-hissy-fit.
I had known that the Western Australian State Parliament was voting on whether to implement Daylight Savings several months ago but I had never heard the result. And because of my media avoidance, I hadn't heard all the discussion of Daylight Savings and the (apparently) numerous warnings to set our clocks an hour forward.
And so, I was 20 minutes late to work today.
The thing is, in Western Australia we've had THREE referendums on whether to implement Daylight Savings and in all THREE we have voted against it. This decision to implement Daylight Savings now, is the result of a parliamentary vote, so we the people did not get a say. I personally feel like my civil liberties were violated, and not just because I am opposed to Daylight Savings (the time is the time. You can't change the time!).
Anyway, I'm kind of wigging out because of Daylight Savings. I thought about keeping all my clocks on the actual time as a kind of protest but I have enough trouble remembering to do stuff without being out of sync with the rest of the state.
You win this round Daylight Savings but in three years we get to vote and we will win the war!
[Poll #880694]
Tonight is my office Christmas party and we're going on a river cruise. My boss is providing alcohol for adults and under-aged alike so I expect it to be a rather painful experience for me (I don't drink). Plus, Ryan and Liam from work have promised to mock me through out the night with regards to the whole 'not-knowing-it-was-Daylight-Savings-and-thus-being-20-minutes-late-to-work' thing.
Still it could be considered a practice run because two weeks from now, we (my family) are going on a proper cruise. We fly out to Sydney this friday and spend a week there, then we spend ten days at sea, including Christmas. I'm really looking forward to it. We we're going to do the whole adventure holiday thing in New Zealand but with my dad's heart attack earlier on in the year what we really need is just time to relax as a family.
Finally I have updated the emo!sleeve picspam to include Logan's emo!sleeved fists of fury!
You see, when exams are over I like to decompress. I shut myself in my room and I sleep and I read and I catch up on Battlestar Galactica (almost done!). I don't watch the news, I don't read newspapers and the only time I listen to the radio is when I'm driving (and then I listen to Triple J, which is national and broadcasts from the Eastern States) or when my brother has an I'm-a-teenager-woe-is-me-now-I-shall-listen-to-mainstream-crap-LOUDLY-hissy-fit.
I had known that the Western Australian State Parliament was voting on whether to implement Daylight Savings several months ago but I had never heard the result. And because of my media avoidance, I hadn't heard all the discussion of Daylight Savings and the (apparently) numerous warnings to set our clocks an hour forward.
And so, I was 20 minutes late to work today.
The thing is, in Western Australia we've had THREE referendums on whether to implement Daylight Savings and in all THREE we have voted against it. This decision to implement Daylight Savings now, is the result of a parliamentary vote, so we the people did not get a say. I personally feel like my civil liberties were violated, and not just because I am opposed to Daylight Savings (the time is the time. You can't change the time!).
Anyway, I'm kind of wigging out because of Daylight Savings. I thought about keeping all my clocks on the actual time as a kind of protest but I have enough trouble remembering to do stuff without being out of sync with the rest of the state.
You win this round Daylight Savings but in three years we get to vote and we will win the war!
[Poll #880694]
Tonight is my office Christmas party and we're going on a river cruise. My boss is providing alcohol for adults and under-aged alike so I expect it to be a rather painful experience for me (I don't drink). Plus, Ryan and Liam from work have promised to mock me through out the night with regards to the whole 'not-knowing-it-was-Daylight-Savings-and-thus-being-20-minutes-late-to-work' thing.
Still it could be considered a practice run because two weeks from now, we (my family) are going on a proper cruise. We fly out to Sydney this friday and spend a week there, then we spend ten days at sea, including Christmas. I'm really looking forward to it. We we're going to do the whole adventure holiday thing in New Zealand but with my dad's heart attack earlier on in the year what we really need is just time to relax as a family.
Finally I have updated the emo!sleeve picspam to include Logan's emo!sleeved fists of fury!
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Date: 2006-12-03 06:58 am (UTC)Off to look at the additional fun of the picspam!
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Date: 2006-12-06 07:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 08:04 am (UTC)It gets lighter in the evenings in Summer anyway... without the need for screwing up the time... well thats just me... i am SO voting NO in the referendum.
Honestly i really don't see the point... if you live by the clock, you live by the clock.
I just can't believe they just put it in anyway, even after the referendums!
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Date: 2006-12-03 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-06 07:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 10:29 am (UTC)That being said I had a huge argument with my friends over this... i am from the country so I should be against it right?
Well I am not. Firstly... Because of the location of Wyndam and Eucla ( on the SA border) they fall into the SA time zone but because they are in WA they have to run on our time... The sun rises there about 4.30am in summer with not DSL.
Seondly, although you are right about the referendum there are a lot of people who would vote without ever experiencing DSL. The last time DSL was in WA I was 11, I am now 31. So there is literally I whole generation of voting people who have never been able to have their say as the last referendum was about 5 years ago when they would have been too young to vote.
My friends argued that it was a blow to democracy. I had to point out that Australia is not a Democracy. We are representative government. We find that government by democratic process... but if we were truly a democracy every thing brought up for a vote in parliment (state and federal and local) would have to be put to a appropriate vote.
It's a trial, for three years... it's not like they have forced it permenantly on us... at the end of the three years they will have another referendum... and see what happens there... the government has done what governments do - obviously someone thought that these people had an idea what they were doing when they voted them in in the first place.
WA is one of only a handful of places in the world that doesn't have DSL. Personally I would like DSL in Winter more than summer. Getting up in the dark I am used to.... but coming home in it!!!! Sod off!
I personally - working for a government department that deals primarily with the eastern states relish the change... it means that I am not having to go to work at 7am in the morning to make contact with our miscrent clients!
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Date: 2006-12-07 08:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-04 04:25 am (UTC)We've always had it (for as long as I've been alive, anyway), so I'm completely used to it. The time is the time because we say it's the time. 12 am is 12am because we say it is. If we start calling it 3am then it's 3am. Just like a rose is a rose because that's what we call it. If we call it "tubbleberg", it still has its physical form but it's called tubbleberg.
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Date: 2006-12-07 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-04 05:18 am (UTC)When I lived in Arizona, we didn't have DST, and it was great because I didn't have to adjust my children's bed times.That's the biggest pain in the butt. If course, these days I'm moving across time zones in faster rate than DST changes back and forth, so it really doesn't matter.
Short version: DST = meh
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Date: 2006-12-07 08:58 am (UTC)