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574M
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:46 am
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For those on the Eastern Seaboard Coast, Daylight Saving starts tomorrow.
A daylight savings calculator can be found here
(Note, that page needs a slightly wider display than 1024)
To change to daylight saving on your Railpage postings,
--> Go to YOUR ACCOUNT
--> Select YOUR INFO
Scroll down to the bottom until you see
Select your state, and click SUBMIT.
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Pressman
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:48 am
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Why do I have to get up an hour earlier?? 
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Grantham
Chief Commissioner
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Location: I'm with stupid!
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:24 am
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Hmfph.....daylight robbery more like. 
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Gwiwer
Rt Hon Gentleman and Ghost of Oliver Bulleid
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:27 am
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We are asked to save the whales. We have to save water. Now we have to save daylight. What next?????
Note - this is all a Government spin. There is no actual saving of daylight involved. Daylight will be the same length it always has but you are now required to get up in the dark again in order to have daylight time for your evening BBQ.
And if it' good enough for most of Australia (even those WAlians have joined in now) what is wrong with the Territorians and Queenslanders? Do you smell?
Australian time zones are as idisyncratic as our railway gauges. You live in Broken Hill NSW? You run on SA time which is 30 minutes different to the rest of your State. Eucla / Mundrabilla and a few other choice spots? You have your own (not widely advertised) time zone which is halfway between SA and WA times and aligned with nowhere else!
The one constant is that anywhere in Australia it will always be Beer O'Clock 
CEO Penhayle Bay Railway. Ferroequinologist. BA Hons (Honourable Bachelor of Aquatarts  )
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574M
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:28 am
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| Pressman wrote: | | Why do I have to get up an hour earlier?? |
Moreover, its gonna be COLDER, one hour earlier.
We'll all be rooned, said Hanrahan 
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Pressman
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:43 am
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| Gwiwer wrote: |
And if it' good enough for most of Australia (even those WAlians have joined in now) what is wrong with the Territorians and Queenslanders? Do you smell? |
One interesting point that few people seem to grasp is that closer you get to the equator, the less the different in the length of daylight and night hours, so in effect "daylight savings" does not provide an effective benefit, hence the reason that Ol' Joe wouldn't get up an hour earlier for anyone.
And don't forget in Darwin, the setting of the sun does bring some relief to the heat of the day (Although Shacks will probably b|tch about not having the right light for an evening picture!) 
This is also why the tasweegians what daylight savings to start earlier - so they get a perceived benefit (and for some reason the rest (nsw, vic and sa) are tagging along saying the early start is an experiment!)
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The one constant is that anywhere in Australia it will always be Beer O'Clock |
 
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TE2815
Minister for Railways
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:24 am
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Again the old faithfull joke:
Every time I put clock forward it falls off the shelf
Copyright Ossie Ostrich every year on HHIS 
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E1109
Minister for Railways
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574M
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:58 am
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| TE2815 wrote: | Again the old faithfull joke:
Every time I put clock forward it falls off the shelf
Copyright Ossie Ostrich every year on HHIS |
Welcome back, TE 
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Supt. of Printing
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:57 pm
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Actually, it's only three weeks earlier this year, as if it was the last Sunday in October as previous years, we would be moving our clocks forward on October 26—three weeks hence.
| Pressman wrote: | | . . . hence the reason that Ol' Joe . . . |
. . . and that'd be Ol' Joh.
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Pressman
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:00 pm
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| Supt. of Printing wrote: | Actually, it's only three weeks earlier this year, as if it was the last Sunday in October as previous years, we would be moving our clocks forward on October 26—three weeks hence.
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As well as finishing a week later, both earlier this year and next year
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574M
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:47 pm
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| Supt. of Printing wrote: | Actually, it's only three weeks earlier this year, as if it was the last Sunday in October as previous years, we would be moving our clocks forward on October 26—three weeks hence.
| Pressman wrote: | | . . . hence the reason that Ol' Joe . . . |
. . . and that'd be Ol' Joh. |
ONLY 3 weeks earlier???
ONLY?
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:11 pm
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So where are all the gags about sundial clocks ?
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Bwana
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:43 pm
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Does anyone know why the change in date?
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Pressman
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:59 pm
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| Bwana wrote: | | Does anyone know why the change in date? |
So the Tasmanians don't think their the odd ones out
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