I could have had an extra hour in bed… 
Ah, well… now I’m up I can do something productive with my extra hour, such as sitting here clicking “refresh” on the forum a few dozen times! Woohoo! 
Phil
cough I’m sure this thread was aimed at JC, honest guv, I ain’t dun nuffin’…
Phil
Re: Nobody told me the clocks changed today!
always wondered what u guys do with the daylight u save…
Re: Re: Nobody told me the clocks changed today!
To be honest I would have got up anyway; once I’ve woken up I tend to get up pretty much straight away unless I have a good book to read. That, however, wouldn’t have fit into a single punchy sentence.
My apologies to Dave (57) for making stuff up again… 
Phil
Well, whether people make good use of it or not, it seems to be more use to have an hour of daylight in the evening than at 3am or whenever the sun should rise during the summer. I don’t know if anyone else ever thought this, but I always used to think that we had Daylight Saving in the winter, when there seems to be more need to save the stuff, but we seem to actually have ‘normal’ time in winter, and save some in the summer, when there’s loads anyway. But maybe it was just me.
Did anyone go out for a particularly early morning uni ride with their extra hour? I just had another hour in bed
- Sam
If I have my history correct, Daylight Savings Time was started during one of the World Wars. It was for the US factory workers that had small Victory Gardens in their back yard (I don’t know if it was used in England at the time, you people had other problems). The idea was that, if you went to work an hour earlier, when you got off work there would be more daylight to work those gardens. And working in the factories required lights so there it didn’t make any difference if it was before sun-up.
The assumption that it was for the farmers is a mistaken one; the farmers worked the same hours either way and got up before the sun anyway.
The only information that my memory sieve retains in trivia, but it’s got lots of that! 
Re: Nobody told me the clocks changed today!
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:20:32 -0600, redwelly
<redwelly.vwx6n@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
>GILD wrote:
>> always wondered what u guys do with the daylight u save… *
>I always used to think that we had Daylight Saving in
>the winter, when there seems to be more need to save the stuff, but we
>seem to actually have ‘normal’ time in winter, and save some in the
>summer, when there’s loads anyway. But maybe it was just me.
Obviously we should save daylight when there is plenty of it. So it
makes perfect sense to have Daylight Saving Time in summer, and use up
the extra daylight in winter when there would otherwise be a shortage.
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
Grizzly bear droppings have bells in them and smell like pepper spray. - UniBrier
My sieve has huge holes in it but IIRC, Ben Franklin originally proposed the idea in the late 1700 in England I think. It wasn’t really implemented by governments until around WWI where both Germany and England put it into play. I don’t think the US put it into full swing until around WWII, in order to obtain factory energy savings. I could be way off.
-Cubby
Well… I did slept in Sunday Morning and find myself wake up suddenly. Had breakfast and then I went out Shopping with my Folks. And it was wet too. (Rain) I was going to do a spot of fishing later in the afternoon but I had to refit my lines before I went out. Queenslanders (Australia) don’t even get Daylight Saving so they are the lucky ones that they don’t get it. NSW, ACT, South Australian and the Victorians get Daylight Saving. Tasmania got it 2 weeks earlier than us.
David
I like the fall daylight savings more than the spring’s.
It’s a LOT better to be an hour early than an hour late.