[Ag-eq] {Spam?} Spring forward: fall back

[Jody ianuzzi]

Hello Jewel,

I really laughed when you described her people thought that the sun would be shining for an extra hour. That is really funny. I think that the US also had a two hour shift in the time during World War II.

All of your stories are always so enjoyable to read. Thank you

Jody

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> On Mar 13, 2017, at 10:37 PM, Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> On another list to which I belong, the old chestnut of clock  adjustment has come up as it does 
> every year.
> I thought that you might like to read the following.
> Firstly, from yours truly.
> New Zealand, being a small country, I believe, roughly the size of California,  observes the same 
> time from North Cape in the far north to Slope Point in the far south.
> Our clocks go forward an hour on the 1st Sunday in September, making [New Zealand Daylight time: 
> NZDT] 13 hours ahead of GMT amd then back to NZST[New Zealand Standard Time] on the 1st Sunday in 
> April.12 hours ahead of GMT.
> The earliest time adjustment proposal was in 1895, but nothing was done about it but the idea was 
> looked at again in 1915, but still nothing was done.
> Now what I am about to say is not mentioned in my search on Google, but comes from our study of NZ 
> history when I was at school, so it may come as much of a surprise to the brainboxes at Google as it 
> may to many New Zealanders.
> New Zealand daylight time is, actually, 2 hours ahead of the time as it was in 1940, and that is 
> because William Sidey, the mP for Dunedin tabled a bill in the New Zealand parliament proposing 
> that, for the duration of the war, clocks should be advanced 1 hour, and this proposal was accepted.
> However, when the war was over, it was found that Sidey Time had become, widely, accepted, so the 
> bill was never repealed.
> Maybe, even the pollies were unaware of the permanent advance of the clocks, because in the late 
> sixties, they introduced another experimental bill advancing the clocks a half an hour, and then in, 
> I think, 1976, another half hour.
> It has remained like that, but there has been a deal of monkeying about with when our clocks spring 
> forward or fall back, but the 1st Sunday in April and ditto in October has been standard for some 
> years now.
> When, in 1976, the advance of an hour was set in place, one small dairying area in the northern half 
> of the North Island refused to change their clocks giving as their reason the disruption to their 
> cows' routine.  In the months when clocks were on NZST, the cows would begin to wander, , of their 
> own accord, down to the cow shed for milking which would begin at around 3/4am, but if the clocks 
> went on that hour, the farmer or his dog would have to go out and fetch them in,and no sooner would 
> they have become accustomed to coming out at one time, than they would have to change, and cows, 
> being creatures of habit, would be disconvovulated again.
> I think that Wairua was the only dairying area that refused to march to the beat of the same drum as 
> other dairy farmers, but after an elapse of 40 years, surely even the grumpy cow cockies of Wairua 
> have accepted that their protest was not worth a bootful of cowshit.
> I remember the protests of the * old, and not so * old, to daylight saving.
> They, the * old and not so * old could not grasp that the sun was not rising an hour earlier, it was 
> the clock-driven humans that were doing that.  Some of the protests ran as thus:  "Paint work on 
> houses will fade just that little bit faster with the extra hour of sunlight;  We will have to mow 
> our lawns more often!"  etc etc and so on.  It was, really, rather amusing!
> 
>         Jewel
> 
> from D.  An hour may not seem like much, but when transferring a billion dollars,
> the interest may actually amount to something. I assume they just avoid
> those times, but could be interesting as a plot for a book.
> 
> I find the idea that twice a year Eastern time is either the same time as
> Central, or two hours different. Also, since a few places don't observe
> DST, they go from being the same or different times as their neighbors, to
> vice versa. Must make it a headache if you live in one area and work in
> another.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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